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100

This area is home to the oldest farmers' market west of the Mississippi.

What is Soulard?

100

Regarding these two songs, Paul told the press that the Beatles had been trying to write more songs about prostitutes and lesbians  (name either one for full points).

What are "Day Tripper" and "Norwegian Wood"?

100

This is the oldest stadium in major league baseball.

What is Fenway Park?

100

According to a survey performed by Logitech in 2011, this is the second-most-common location where lost TV remotes are finally located (the most common is between couch cushions).

What is the refrigerator/freezer?

100

This controversial mystic was fed cyanide-laced cakes and wine, shot in the head, and then tossed into a river.

Who is Rasputin?
200

This local community derives its name from a tale of a body of water changing its shape after the suicide of a love-smitten Native princess.

What is Creve Coeur?

200

This Beatles album cover had to be hastily reshot and replaced because its graphic content was deemed to be too shocking and offensive for the American market.

What is _Yesterday and Today_?

200

This is the height of the tallest player in the baseball Hall of Fame.

What is 6' 10"?

200

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2008, this occupation was ranked as being the most hazardous, with 128.9 deaths per 100,000 workers.

What is fisherman (and allied fishery workers)?

200

This rock star died in the back seat of a Renault of acute alcohol poisoning and aspirating his own vomit.

Who is Bon Scott, of AC/DC?

300

In 2006, this local community attempted to enact legislation banning the employment, housing, or aiding and abetting of "illegal aliens."

What is Valley Park?

300

In 1973 Paul McCartney & Wings recorded the song, "Walking in the Park with Eloise," because he wanted this composer to earn royalties.

Who is Paul's dad?

300

He is the only player in baseball history with more than 300 home runs, 300 stolen bases, 3,000 hits, and a lifetime batting average over .300

Who is Willie Mays?

300

With a 95% success rate, members of this species are the most effective hunters in the world.

What are dragonflies?

300

This pop diva died in a bathtub due to substance abuse.

Who is Whitney Houston?


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Who is Dolores O'Riordan?
400

This community has the highest population density in Missouri (as of the 2010 census).

What is Marlborough?

400

This is the only Beatles song for which the instrumental parts were recorded outside of Europe.

What is "The Inner Light"?

400

These are the only brothers in baseball history to have each won a Cy Young award.

Who are Jim and Gaylord Perry?

400

Approximately 20% of the species of mammals on the planet are various types of this creature.

What is a bat?

400

This Greek playwright was killed when an eagle, apparently mistaking his bald pate for a rock, dropped a turtle on his head from a great height, killing him instantly.

Who is Aeschylus?

500

The area known as Gumbo Flats (dirt from which was used to pave the streets of Forest Park in 1904) was absorbed by this nearby community in the late 20th century.

What is Chesterfield?

500

This is the only Beatles song never to appear on an official Beatles album (it does appear on compilations).

What is "The Inner Light"?

500

He is the only player in baseball history to have played in four different World Series with four different teams.

Who is Lonnie Smith?

500

In a 2011 study, researchers with the so-called Belly Button Biodiversity (BBB) project found that this was the number of bacteria species found to be common to all of the belly buttons they studied.

What is zero?

500

Jimi Heselden, the owner of the Segway company, died in this manner.

What is driving a Segway off of a cliff?

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