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Canadiens
Lightning
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Sabres
Senators
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This type of formal jacket takes its name from a village in Orange County, New York; it is also called a dinner jacket or smoking jacket.
What is a tuxedo?
400
This chanteuse, whose first five albums all reached the Top 5 in both the U.S. and Canada, has a first name which is French for the fourth month of the year.
Who is Avril Lavigne?
400
This protagonist of the Cars franchise shares its surname with an actor who starred in "The Great Escape" and also loved motor racing.
Who is Lightning McQueen?
400
The pink or reddish color of these birds comes from carotenoids in their diet of animal and plant plankton. American ones are a brighter red color because of the beta carotene availability in their food.
What are flamingos?
400
This sword used by King Arthur traces its name from the Welsh word Caledfwlch, meaning "hard cleft."
What is Excalibur?
400
Democrat
New York
2001-2009
Who is Hillary Clinton?
800
One of the earliest forms of this type of jacket was made by the U.S. Army Air Corps with high wraparound collars, cinched cuffs and waists, and zipper closures protected by wind flaps and fur linings.
What is a bomber jacket? (Flight jacket)
800
He first became Canadian Prime Minister in 1968, and ultimately served for 15 non-consecutive years. His son followed him into the office in 2015. (Full name, s'il vous plaît).
Who is Pierre Trudeau?
800
Before experimenting with kites, Ben Franklin speculated about the efficacy of these structures; by the 19th century they had become a common architectural motif, uncontroversially.
What is a lightning rod?
800
Agrabah was an odd place to find this scarlet macaw, named after the villain of Shakespeare's "Othello," since his species is native to central and South America.
Who is Iago?
800
As any German could tell you, a Zweihänder is a sword intended to be wielded this way.
What is with two hands?
800
Republican
Utah
1977-2019
Who is Orrin Hatch?
1200
This style of jacket originally worn by sailors draws its name not from a legume, but from the Dutch word for the heavy wool used in making it.
1200
This synth pop singer, née Claire Elise Boucher, gave birth on May 4, 2020 to a child named X Æ A-12. (The name was later changed to the more conventional X Æ A-Xii.)
Who is Grimes?
1200
This character with a lightning bolt-shaped tail was named the "second-best person of the year" 1999 by Time, calling it "the most beloved animated character since Hello Kitty."
Who is Pikachu?
1200
The variety of the bird below is called "purple" but definitely looks more red to me. Variations of these birds proved essential to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection
What are finches?
1200
Sabre is one of the three disciplines of fencing; this is one of the other two.
1200
Democrat
California
1993-2017
Who is Barbara Boxer?
1600
Don't un-Ravel! This short, tailored jacket, most commonly used in women's wear, was inspired by the matador's chaquetilla.
What is a bolero?
1600
This goaltender, a four-time Stanley Cup champion, won twice with the Montreal team that shares his demonym and twice with l'Avalanche du Colorado.
Who is Patrick Roy?
1600
In Back to the Future, Marty McFly and Doc Brown attempt to time it so a lightning strike on Hill Valley City Hall will coincide with his DeLorean hitting this time-warping velocity.
What is 88 miles per hour?
1600
The scarlet version of this wading bird is commonly found in South America and the Caribbean. It also names a French budget hotel chain.
What is the ibis?
1600
Nomadic horsmen in Central Asia learned that this type of curved sabre is preferable because the arc of the blade matches that of the sweep of the rider's arm as they slash the target while galloping.
What is a scimitar?
1600
Democrat
West Virginia
1959-2010
Who is Robert C. Byrd?
2000
This type of waterproof, hooded, pull-over jacket without a front opening comes from a Greenlandic word; it is sometimes erroneously used interchangeably with parka, which originated in the Aleutian Islands on the opposite side of the continent.
What is anorak?
2000
In Norse mythology, thunder comes from the sound of Thor's chariot; lightning comes from this, Thor's hammer.
What is Mjölnir?
2000
A confused Karen might ask to speak to one of these American birds, the male summer variety of which are rose red.
What is a tanager?
2000
Roman legionaries at war used this sort of short, thrusting sword that later lent its name to a different combat activity.
What is a gladius?
2000
Democratic-Republican, Nullifier
South Carolina
1832-1843; 1845-1850
Who is John C. Calhoun?