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100

It's "The Country Music Capital of the World"

What is Nashville?
100

Babe Ruth, 1921:
59 these

What are home runs?

100

Idiomatically, one of these is misleading or distracting

What is a red herring?

100

A coach for the NFL's Titans said "good sized carp" were in the team's parking lot after 2010 flooding in this state

What is Tennessee? 

100

This oily fleshed fish is seen here trying not to be a pizza topping

 

What are anchovies?

200

It's Florida's largest city in population & the largest city in area in the lower 48 states

What is Jacksonville?

200

Rickey Henderson, career:
1,406 these

What are stolen bases?

200

The main culprit in the greenhouse effect that's causing global warming is the rise of this gas in the atmosphere

What is carbon dioxide?

200

The escape of 2 prisoners from the Clinton Correctional Facility in this state led to a long 2015 manhunt

What is New York?

200

It's business fin in front, party fin in back for this fish, as it hobnobs around the Florida Keys


 

What is a mullet? 

300

The "most exciting two minutes in sports" happens each May in this city

What is Louisville?

300

New York Mets, 1962:
120 these

What are losses?

300

In the 19-teens this soda was advertised as getting flavors from the groves of Southern California

What is Orange Crush?

300

Hurricane Katrina devastated La. & also this state's coastal communities of Dauphin Island & Bayou La Batre

What is Alabama?

300

This small white whale has been known to get peeved if you confuse it with a sturgeon

What is a beluga?

400

Named for its abundance of ore, this Colorado city is the USA's highest incorporated city

What is Leadville?

400

Cal Ripken Jr., 1982-1998:
2,632 these

What are consecutive games played?

400

A possession whose care & upkeep are an excessive financial burden

What is a white elephant?

400

On March 28, 1979 a nuclear plant in this state suffered a massive core meltdown

What is Pennsylvania?

400

This freshwater fish that can weigh up to 4 pounds is cousin to the pike & starts with the same letter

 

What is perch?

500

Built by a Vanderbilt, Biltmore House & Estate is in this city

What is Asheville (North Carolina)?

500

Sandy Koufax, 1965:
382 these

What are strikeouts?

500

For what presumably runs through their veins, this phrase means members of the aristocracy

What are blue bloods?

500

1850s conflict over slavery led to violence that was dubbed "Bleeding" this; it became a state in 1861

What is Kansas?

500

It swims faster by squeezing water through a funnel, & wants you to know it's not a squid nor an octopus

 

What is a cuttlefish?

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