SIBLING
RIVALRY
UNDERSTANDING MONEY
BODIES OF WATER
ON VINYL
"CHAIN" REACTION
Final Jeopardy!
200
If you're this type of twin, from the Latin for "brother", you & your twin have about half-identical DNA
fraternal
200
Having the high ground was enough, we guess, for Obi-Wan to leave this ex-pal crippled & on fire
Anakin Skywalker
200
This 6-letter spending plan is based on your expected income--the government version is a lot messier
a budget
200
This river flows some 4,000 miles to its mouth in the Atlantic on the coast of Brazil
the Amazon
200
Helping keep vinyl alive, some DJs play records on these connected to sound mixing equipment
turntables
200
A group of prisoners fastened together while working outdoors
a chain gang
200
ANCIENT LANDMARKS
It's believed that its nose was about 3 feet wide when it was first constructed around 2500 B.C.
400
This language of Oslo has a word for one born long after his siblings:
attpåklatt
Norwegian
400
Wil Wheaton wasn't above lying about his grandma being dead just to win a card game vs. Sheldon Cooper on this sitcom
The Big Bang Theory
400
Spain no longer uses this unit of currency, but Chile & Cuba still do
the peso
400
The Cayman Trench, near Cuba, is the greatest depth of this sea
the Caribbean Sea
400
Vinyl 7" singles were also called 45s for 45 RPM, short for this
rotation per minute (or revolutions per minute)
400
It outlines a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by a higher member
a food chain
400
It's believed that its nose was about 3 feet wide when it was first constructed around 2500 B.C.
the Sphinx
600
Triple rhyme time dept.: slang for a pal as close as a sibling, or what Joseph is to Reuben in the Bible
brother from another mother
600
Aaron Boone's playoff home run in 2003 sent the Red Sox home & this historic rival team to the World Series
the Yankees
600
Equifax & Experian are companies that calculate this "score", a measure of your ability to pay your bills
credit score
600
2 giant rocks called the Pillars of Hercules mark the entrance to this strait
Gibraltar
600
A poll named the best vinyl cover art of 2017 as RTJ3, the third full-length release from this group
Run the Jewels
600
Technically, this term for flexible armor made of interlinked rings is redundant
chainmail
800
Galileo's daughters Virginia & Livia were sisters in more ways than one, as in 1613 both entered this religious place
nunnery (or convent)
800
You will always remember today as the day that you named this captain who took down Barbossa with a single shot in 2003
Jack Sparrow
800
A 6-horse stagecoach is the symbol of this giant bank
Wells Fargo
800
The Irrawaddy River flows into this bay
the Bay of Bengal
800
Rock-Ola was a leading maker of these machines that spun a vinyl record when you inserted a coin
jukebox
800
Here's a sculpture made using this power tool
a chainsaw
1000
August 12 is the day to celebrate them, sometimes stereotyped as neglected, resentful victims of birth order
the middle child
1000
On "Elementary" Natalie Dormer had this classic last name as Jamie, a woman who kept even Sherlock Holmes guessing
Moriarty
1000
Yay! Your folks made millions selling that house! Not as yay! They must pay the tax called these "gains"
capital gains
1000
The Strait of Dover is the narrowest part of this body of water that connects the Atlantic Ocean & the North Sea
the English Channel
1000
U.S. vinyl record sales rose every year from 2006 to 2016; No. 1 in 2016 was this band's "Blurryface"
Twenty One Pilots
1000
3-word term for the system in a military or other org. in which instructions are passed from one person to another
chain of command