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Games, Games, Games
100

To shatter &
to halt a vehicle

Break/Brake

100

A man on his back / On whom his kids hop / Makes a simple request / For the love of god, stop!

Pop

100

To open an oyster shell or to remove a corn husk

Shuck

100

The 1932 election of FDR over Herbert Hoover serves as the backdrop to what 1977 Broadway musical about anorphaned protagonist who actually gets to meet Roosevelt in Act II?

Annie

100

What is thought to be the first video game, created in 1958 and becoming popular in the 1970s?

Pong

200

To carry &
naked

Bare/Bear

200

He pushed protein & pork / 'Til a man needed a therapist / On a boat?! With a goat?! / He's a comestible terrorist!

Sam I Am
200

Really thin French fries can be matchsticks or these laces

Shoestring

200

The Hollywood Reporter noted in its review that one character in this musical changed from an "imperious arbiter of high school hotness to full-blown arch villainess."

Mean Girls

200

What game has pieces representing winds, dragons, flowers, and seasons?

Mahjong

300

An Alaskan seaport &
a fabled dwarflike creature

Nome/Gnome

300

His holiday story has been discussed / In some hardy colleges / But after all that re-gifting / He should see his cardiologist

The Grinch

300

Hebrew for "seven" gives us this word for a Jewish period of mourning; the use of low stools may be why you hear that you "sit" it

Shiva

300

Traveling salesman Harold Hill declares his love for Marian Paroo in the song "Marian the Librarian" in what classic Broadway musical?

Music Man

300

The properties in Monopoly are based on what US city?

Atlantic City, NJ

400

Illegal &
to provoke a response

illicit/elicit 

400

The Once-ler cuts truffula / All greedy for cash / But he fights for nature / With a Sam Elliott 'stache

Lorax

400

Inspiring the name of this cryptocurrency, a memeable Japanese dog breed.

Shiba Inu

400

The smash Broadway hit "Hamilton" is staged in a theater named for what legendary songwriting partner of Oscar Hammerstein?

Richard Rodgers

400

In Mario Kart, the power-up that seeks out the player in first position and explodes on impact is a shell that is what color?

Blue

500

One underling &
10 Jews praying

minion/minyan

500

A duo of destruction / Now, how about that? / Blue hair & red jammies / Per "The Cat in the Hat"

Thing One & Thing Two
500

An Irish tune called "Mush-Mush-Mush Tural-I-Addy" mentions lathering someone with this type of cudgel -- also, a Druid spell in DND 5e.

Shillelagh

500

Because Broadway show listings in newspapers were alphabetical, this musical added the letter "A" to the front, so by having the first letters be A and C, they ensured always being first. 

A Chorus Line.
500

The first Advanced DND adventurers module in 1976 featured what mythical creature in the title?

Vampire

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