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Female insect: Putting my long, green front legs together & asking God for a male who'll fight for me & I can later eat
What is a praying mantis?
200
In 2023 Sabrina Ionescu set a WNBA single-season record by draining 128 of these
What are threes?
200
Caused by a comet or small asteroid, the Tunguska blast of 1908 leveled miles of trees in the central part of this Russian region
What is Siberia?
200
Dessert of choice at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum: astronaut ice cream from the gift shop, in this preserved state
What is freeze-dried ice cream?
200
On Jan. 1, 1898 New York City was consolidated into 5 of these & Brooklyn Mayor Frederick Wurster was out of a job
What are boroughs?
400
Heading upstream to my home river by Bristol Bay, Alaska for the summer; looking for a red-y mate to fertilize my 2,000 to 5,000 eggs
What is a Salmon?
400
in the 1998 regular season, 39-year-old Minnesota Viking Gary Anderson went 35 for 35 & 59 for 59 on these 2 types of scoring
What are field goals & extra points?
400
A deadly 1962 explosion in one of these in Carmichaels, Penn. was attributed to underground methane gas
What is a coal mine?
400
Mon dieu! Right-winger Marine Le Pen can likely kiss the French presidency goodbye after a 2025 conviction for this
What is embezzlement?
400
Issued in the Trump interregnum, it's a blueprint for the GOP's return to power including a 900-page "mandate for leadership"
What is Project 2025?
600
Dislikes: When my name is confused with the "Someone Like You" singer
Likes: When my penguin partner gives me rocks
What is an Adélie penguin?
600
This actress made the top 32 to make the Olympic archery tryouts in 1999
Who is Geena Davis?
600
Now tree-covered, Hanbury Crater was created by a 1944 explosion in an underground bomb depot of this UK military branch
What is the Royal Air Force?
600
"On back day or on shoulder day?"--an age-old debate amongst gym rats over when to train this muscle for optimum rippage
What is the trapezius?
600
Timber management is done by this service founded in 1905, before which people hacked merrily away at trees on federal land
What is the U.S. Forest Service?
800
Looking for what my "wandering" parents had: a mating ritual, raising a hatchling for a bit & then flying out to sea for years
What is an (wandering) albatross?
800
In 2025 this Great 8 had some career goals, Russian around & breaking Wayne Gretzky's NHL scoring record with No. 895
Who is Ovechkin?
800
In 1917, a munitions ship blew up in a Nova Scotia harbor, flattening more than a square mile of this city & killing 2,000 people
What is Halifax?
800
One who sings the part of Amneris in "Aida", for example
What is a mezzo-soprano?
800
This New England state of about 1.4 million has the biggest legislature of any state, with 424 lawmakers keeping taxes low
What is New Hampshire?
1000
Female bottom-dwelling fish with a bountiful glowing lure seeking an arrangement with a male to parasitize off my largesse
What is an anglerfish?
1000
Reacting to winning the U.S. Open by 1 in this sport in 2012, Hall of Famer Pete Weber yelled, "Who do you think you are?! I am!
What is Bowling?
1000
At the 1585 Siege of Antwerp, gunpowder-packed Dutch ships called hellburners blew up a bridge built by these attackers
Who are the Spanish?
1000
And the award for most unpleasant biblical comeuppance goes to this queen of Israel, thrown from a window by eunuchs & then eaten by dogs
Who is Jezebel?
1000
In 2023, this New Yorker became the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives
Who is (Hakeem) Jeffries?