And I quote!
Gems and minerals
Name that instrument!
Monkey Business
Beginning with names
100

"Know thyself, know thy enemy!" is credited to this perhaps fictional general.

Who is Sun Tzu?

100

Paleoentomologists will know all about this organic gem!

What is amber?

100

An old instrument now usually made of Nickel, played by world-famous Jasmine Choi.

What is the flute?

100

The closest living relative to humans alongside Chimpanzees.

What are Bonobos?

100

Sign that may advertise anything from nearby bars to sober driving.

What is a billboard?

200

The man who philosophizes that "the roof of suffering is attachment".

Who is the Buddha?

200

Derives from the Greek word for blood, though in it's raw form it's in fact grey.

What is Hematite?

200

An instrument favored by the Baroques with keys usually the opposite colors of a piano, played by levers gently pressing on the strings.

What is the Clavichord?

200

The adorable smallest monkey in the world who could be held easily in an adult's hand.

What is the Pygmy Marmoset?

200

What you might build a house with, and ironically the reaction if it collapses.

What is timber?

300

The artist of this song described the beginning as "Fate knocking at the door".

What is Beethoven's fifth symphony?

300

The most common mineral in earth's crust and vital for glass-working and ceramics.

What is Feldspar?

300

African instrument that shook things up when introduced to Brazilian culture (unfortunately via slavery).

What is the caxixi?

300

A primate characterized for it's long and flat nose, native to the island of Borneo.

What is the Proboscis monkey?

300

Hybrid of folklore and common taxidermy trick.

What is a Jackalope?

400

The man who gave the perhaps perplexing idea at face value of "I think, therefore I am."

Who is René Descartes?

400

Crystal that resembles an undersea creature that is in fact produced via the secretion of certain marine invertebrates.

What is Aragonite?

400

Medieval instrument where you might have to crank up the volume.

What is the Hurdy Gurdy?

400

The two main scientific categories of monkeys, characterized partially by the region they originate but are easier to distinguish by examining their noses.

What are old world and new world monkeys?

400

A breakfast, but also strangely enough a recently wedded man.

What is a benedict?

500

After criticism from the son of Roman emperor Vespasian of his "urine tax", the ruler coined this expression which in Latin is "Pecunia non olet".

What is "Money doesn't stink"?

500

A natural form of calcium that can be found in both tofu and the Sphinx.

What is Gypsum?

500

Startling instrument that's inspiration came while working on a radio wave-based machine for the Soviet government.

What is a theremin?

500

A fairly recently discovered (and rather bulky) monkey of South America whose name is also a drink.

What is a saki?

500

Simply put, Roman historians who made year by year records of notable events.

What are annalists?

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