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Under the Higher Education Act, regulations affecting these federal programs must generally go through negotiated rulemaking before being published for comment.

What are Title IV federal student aid programs?

100

Famous rock band of the 1960s still performing today that can’t get no satisfaction and is a short distance away.

Who is The Rolling Stones Throw?

100

Traditionally flavored with wormwood, anise, and fennel, this once-banned spirit is nicknamed “The Green Fairy.”

What is absinthe?

100

The first U.S. Vice President.

Who is John Adams?

100

The famous Gateway Arch stands along this major river that forms Missouri’s eastern border.

What is the Mississippi River?

200

If consensus is reached in negotiated rulemaking, the Department of Education generally agrees to use the committee’s agreed-upon language in this next formal step of the federal rulemaking process.

What is Notice of Proposed Rulemaking?

200

This triages the injured while bringing food to them in bed.

What is Emergency Room Service?

200

A whiskey cocktail made with sugar, bitters, and a twist of citrus, it shares its name with something out of fashion.

What is an Old Fashioned?

200

This Vice President was featured in the film An Inconvenient Truth.

Who is Al Gore?

200

In St. Louis, March Madness becomes this punny nickname for the Missouri Valley Conference basketball tournament.

What is Arch Madness?

300

First implemented during the Obama administration, this federal rule evaluates career education programs based on graduates’ debt-to-earnings ratios.

What is Gainful Employment?

300

Pixar’s sequel about living toys followed by the Paul Walker street-racing sequel.

What is Toy Story 2 Fast 2 Furious?

300

This Mexican spirit predates tequila and is often produced using underground pit ovens called palencas.

What is mezcal?

300

This Vice President was arrested for treason.

Who is Aaron Burr?

300

This 1857 Supreme Court case, involving an enslaved man who had lived in St. Louis, ruled that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens.

What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?

400

Neg Reg sessions in 2017–2018 focused heavily on regulations governing this process that allows students to seek federal loan relief if their institution misled them.

What is Borrower Defense to Repayment?

400

It’s two-day shipping even covers zero degrees longitude.

What is Amazon Prime Meridian?

400

The main spirit in a classic Sazerac cocktail before rye whiskey became common in the U.S.

What is cognac?

400

The first Vice President to succeed after a President’s death.

Who is John Tyler?

400

Born in St. Louis, this rock-and-roll pioneer recorded classics like “Johnny B. Goode” and “Roll Over Beethoven.”

Who is Chuck Berry?

500

The requirement that the Department of Education use negotiated rulemaking was added during this year’s major reauthorization of the Higher Education Act.

What is 1992?

500

This nighttime directional beacon is visible to Captain Kirk and crew.

What is North Star Trek?

500

By law, bourbon must be distilled to no more than this percentage of alcohol by volume or proof before aging.

What is 80% ABV or 160 proof?

500

He became the 26th President of the U.S. after the assassination of the sitting U.S. President.  

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

500

This 1804 expedition began near St. Louis and explored lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

What is the Lewis and Clark Expedition?

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