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What's the Word?
100

After more than 150 years, he's still the tallest president in U.S history.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

 Wyoming’s largest lake, it lies right in the middle of a national park.

What is Yellowstone Lake?

100

These are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have moons.

What are Mercury and Venus?

100

This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally.

What is Schindler’s List?

100

 This 9-letter word for an insect may have come about because people believed this bug ate uncovered dairy products.

What is butterfly?

200

Within a 3½-year period, he became mayor of Buffalo, governor of New York, and president of the U.S.

Who is Grover Cleveland?

200

Auckland, the chief port city of this country, was once its capital.

What is New Zealand?

200

This geologic formation may be found overhead if you are in a cave.

What are stalactites?

200

The blonde preferred in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

 Who is Marilyn Monroe?

200

 Fittingly, this adjective describing a hit-you-in-the-gut kind of feeling goes back to a Latin word for internal organs.

What is “visceral”?

300

Founded in 1874, this political party advocated printing more money to help farmers.

What is the Greenback Party?

300

 Number of states that touch the Pacific Ocean.

 What is five?

300

Matter that does not enter chemical reactions is described as this.

 What is inert?

300

The make of car that starts up immediately after 200 years in Woody Allen's Sleeper.

 What is the Volkswagen Beetle?

300

This Sanskrit word referring to a spoken word or phrase comes from a word for “to think.”

 What is mantra?

400

In 1864, this man became a lieutenant general and assumed command of all U.S. armies.

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

400

This capital that shares its name with its country lies about 12 miles inland from Italy’s Adriatic coast.

What is San Marino?


400

This was the first genetically engineered organism.

 What is a tobacco plant?

400

 The first Academy Awards, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in 1929, saw this war movie winning for "Outstanding Picture."

What is Wings?

400

 In 1793, a French clergyman called the destruction of libraries and sculptures this, using the name of a 5th-century tribe.

What is vandalism?

500

Published in 1783, his American Spelling Book preceded his famous dictionary by 45 years.

 Who is Noah Webster?

500

 Every little breeze seems to whisper this Alberta lake, so named to honor the daughter of Queen Victoria.

What is Lake Louise?

500

 The first Earth Day was celebrated in this year.

 What is 1970?

500

This famous PBS bird has a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Who is Big Bird?

500

The word for a type of building or institution comes from Greek for a place sacred to a mythical group of 9.

 What is a museum?

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