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100

3 major airports serve New York City including this one that's not even in the same state

What is Newark? 

100

Our panel agrees: Many renewable energy engineers work on this, the most abundant type of renewable energy

What is solar? 

100

This agency of the U.S. Public Health Service found the causes of Legionnaires' Disease & Toxic Shock Syndrome

What is the CDC? 

100

Named for the way it rolls around lonely streets in western movies, this plant was imported to the U.S. from Russia

What is a tumbleweed? 

100

In a children's tale, the Big Bad Wolf could not blow down the final construction of this group

What are the three little pigs? 

200

The original of this series that featured Blake Lively & Leighton Meester as privileged teens in New York City

What is Gossip Girl? 

200

When the luciferin in some organisms oxidizes, it causes them to do this

What is to glow or light up? 

200

One of the reasons it was founded in 1847 was to improve public health

What is the American Medical Association? 

200

This brand of little breath mints was launched in 1969

What are tictacs? 

200

By definition, it's what a full bathroom has that a half bath doesn't

What is a bathtub? 

300

When the smell of orchids gives way to lion sweat, you're going from the New York Botanical Garden to this neighbor facility

What is the Bronx Zoo? 

300

These controversial cells are obtained from human embryos at the blastocyst stage

What are stem cells? 

300

Often paired with public health, it's the branch of medicine that deals with outbreaks of infectious diseases

What is epidemiology? 

300

Some of the world's best snorkeling can be found at spots like Sharm El-Sheikh on this colorful sea

What is the Red Sea? 

300

The Hoover Dam was the first job site to mandate wearing these, which have saved construction workers' lives

What are hard hats? 

400

We'll give you directions to this U. in Boston; it's at 360 Huntington Avenue, but also has campuses in Nahant & Burlington

What is Northeastern? 

400

 Sadly, both she & her daughter Irene, also a scientist, died of leukemia caused by radiation

Who is Marie Curie? 

400

In public health: "for determining by experiment that microbes cling to" scientists who grow these, like ZZ Top

What are beards? 

400

It's best to avoid swallowing apple seeds, as they contain a chemical that degrades into a tiny amount of this poison

What is cyanide? 

400

The 1970s oil crisis made this project inevitable; much of its construction was elevated out of worry for wildlife and permafrost

What is the Alaska pipeline? 

500

In 1737 Boston held its first parade celebrating what became this annual event

What is St. Patricks Day? 

500

In 1963 France's Dr. Georges Mathé announced that he had cured a leukemia patient by transplanting this spongy tissue

What is marrow? 

500

 Also a type of mathematical quantity, it's a term for disease-carrying critters like ticks

What is a vector? 

500

The stems of the shiitake type of this are extremely tough; remove them & use them to flavor sauces

What is a mushroom? 

500

Class A doors have a 3-hour rating for enduring this

What is Fire? 

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