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100

This slang phrase meaning "to inform on someone" refers to the longtime 10-cent cost of a pay phone call

Drop a Dime

100

Medals made from these three metals are given to the athletes who place first, second and third in each event.

Gold, Silver, Bronze

100

The number of arms severed by light sabers in episode IV, A New Hope

One

100

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is comprised of the external skeletons of billions of these tiny marine invertebrates.

Coral

100

The mass of this planet is more than twice that of all other planets in our solar system combined

Jupiter

100

A Terre Haute, Indiana glass company designed this soda company's classic bottle in 1916

Coca-Cola

200

Nowadays, if your teammates call you the goat, they don't mean you lost the game for them, they mean this

Greatest of All Time

200

This American track and field athelete spoiled Hitler's plans to showcase Aryan superiority at the '36 games by winning four gold medals

Jesse Owens

200

Han Solo bragged the Millenium Falcon once completed the Kessel Run is less than this many parsecs

12

200

This body of water is bounded by Mexico,  Central and South America.

Caribbean

200

This planet's reddish hue comes from the oxidized iron on its surface

Mars

200

A tuft of hair that won't stay flat is referred to by this bovine term

A Cowlick

300

In craps, if you roll a 6 with a 3-3 combo, you've done it this "way"

The hard way

300

With 28 to his credit, this swimmer holds the Olympic record for the most medals ever won

Michael Phelps

300

Luke's call sign during the attack on the Death Star

Red Five

300

While most of these ten-legged crustaceans are small, the Japanese Spider variety have a leg span as large as 12 feet.

Crabs

300

Its 7,500-mile diameter is only slightly less than that of the Earth

Venus

300

The Welsh Springer breed of this dog is smaller than the English Springer

Spaniel

400

The U.S. military does not do this 7-letter action; instead, it is referred to as a "tactical retrograde"
(Daily Double)

Retreat

400

In these events, men and women compete against each other on equal terms.
(Daily Double)

 Equestrian Events

400

The approximate size in meters of the womp rats Luke used to bullseye in his T-16 on Tatooine

Two

400

The Strait of Dover between Calais and Dover is the narrowest point of this world's most busiest international seaway.

English Channel

400

This planet's moon Titan was the first moon discovered to have a permanent atmosphere

Saturn

400

This landmark 1954 Supreme Court case was brought by Oliver Brown on behalf of his daughter Linda

Brown v. Board of Education

500

A double play going from 3rd base to 2nd to 1st is said to go "around" this

Around the horn

500

Poland's Stella Walsh won the women's 100 meters in '32, setting a world record.  When she died in 1980, the coroner made this surprising discovery.

She was a man

500

The number of light sabers General Grievous is able to wield at one time.

Four

500

He co-invented the SCUBA tank as a naval officer in the '40s, then used it to become an undersea explorer

Jacques Cousteau

500

This planet joined the club in 1930, then was kicked out in 2006

Pluto

500

It's an official language of Haiti, the United Nations and Belgium

French

600

If you choose to leave a hospital "AMA", you've done so this way

Against Medical Advice

600

The Olympic motto is simply these three words

Faster, Higher, Stronger

600

This number doubles as Leia's cell number aboard the Death Star and part of Finn's stormtrooper disignation

2187

600

This marine mollusk, related to squids and octopuses, has a unique internal shell that's used to control buoyancy.

Cuttlefish

600

The letter H, for William Herschel, is used in a symbol representing this planet

Uranus

600

U.S. destroyers Maddox & C. Turner Joy were the ships involved in this 1964 gulf "incident"

The Gulf of Tonkin

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