Collector’s Items
Sailing
Edible History
Homophonia
Album Covers
100
They probably never paid for anyone’s college tuition, but these plush toys made big money in the 1990s.
Beanie Babies
100
Unit of speed measurement, roughly 1.15 miles per hour.
Knot
100
In 1773, a group calling themselves the Songs of Liberty dumped an entire shipment’s worth of a caffeinated beverage into their local harbor to protest taxation.
Boston Tea Party
100
In the nude, and a dangerous woodland mammal.
Bare and bear
100
This band used a famous image of the Hindenburg explosion for their debut album in 1968, much to the chagrin of the builder’s daughter.
Led Zeppelin
200
Collecting these plastic dispensers, topped with the heads of famous cartoon characters, turned a simple Austrian breath mint into a massive global hobby.
PEZ
200
Referencing a ship’s course or heading, this phrase is used to describe making progress or proceeding in the intended direction.
On the right track
200
Caused by a combination of a crop blight and British economic policies, this devastating 1840s famine in Ireland forced millions to emigrate or starve after a disease wiped out this essential underground tuber.
Irish Potato Famine
200
Synonymous with zero, and a Catholic sister.
None and nun
200
A white line intersects with a triangle before becoming a rainbow spectrum against a black background.
Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon
300
In evaluating comic books or trading cards, such as Base Set Charizard, experts rank this as the most valuable category of preservation.
Mint condition
300
A phrase used to describe something as legal or legitimate. Originally referring to sailors staying out on the open deck, instead of hiding below to surprise other ships.
Above board
300
The series of U.S. military interventions in Central America and the Caribbean during the early 1900s, named after a tropical fruit heavily traded by companies like United Fruit.
The Banana Wars
300
A direction, or a religious ceremony.
Right and rite
300
Four men walk barefoot across an English walkway.
The Beatles, Abbey Road
400
These big-headed decorative statuettes made of vinyl are usually small, but have been known to take up a lot of shelf space.
Funko Pops
400
Now referring to a continuously tall building. Originally referred to a very tall, light triangular sail carried at the top of a ship's mast.
Skyscraper
400
This 1794 insurrection in western Pennsylvania saw farmers take up arms against a federal tax placed on their favorite distilled spirit, which they often used as currency.
Whiskey Rebellion
400
Past action of jumping headlong into a pool, and the bird that found the olive branch.
Dove and dove
400
Often mistaken for a rose, Fleetwood Mac used this type of plant for the cover of their 1988 Greatest Hits compilation. 
Cotton Boll
500
This Star Wars character’s 1979 action figure was cancelled before release due to safety concerns over the rockets it launched. The prototype auctioned for over $1 million.
Boba Fett
500
The lateral drift of a ship downwind, away from its intended course. Now used to refer to extra space or freedom to act within constraints.
Leeway
500
This 1944 aerial battle in the Pacific theater resulted in such a lopsided victory for U.S. Navy pilots against the Japanese that a commander remarked it was just like an old-fashioned poultry hunt.
The Marianas Turkey Shoot
500
Four letters standing silently behind a fifth letter, and a stick used for breaking.
Queue and cue
500
A digitized image of artist Neil Young, taken with a Game Boy Camera. The album is named after the twin Pokémon titles that released the same year, 2000.
Neil Young, Silver and Gold