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200

This round room sits under the dome of the US Capitol Building.

What is the Rotunda?

200

This banking family transformed Florence into a powerhouse and eventually counted four popes as their own.

Who are the Medicis?

200

Dʒeɪ + a raptor = this college team

Who are the Kansas Jayhawks?

200

Brewed since 1928, this beer sponsored the Jamaican women’s bobsled team for a time.

What is Red Stripe?

200

This actor appeared as part of a Jeopardy! clue 42 times before appearing as a Celebrity Jeopardy! contestant in 2023.

Who is Macauley Culkin?

400

This founding father is the only US President who never lived in the White House.

Who is George Washington?

400

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were named after these four Italian artists.

Who are Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael?

400

Dʒeɪ + German initials = this gemstone

What is jade?

400

A Bellini is typically made with this sparkling Italian wine that, like Bellini, also has double letters in its name.

What is Prosecco?

400

Kate McCallister finally catches a ride home from Scranton with this band, whose hits include “Daj Mi Buzi Polka,” aka. “Kiss Me Polka,” “Polka, Polka, Polka,” “Polka Twist,” and “Twin Lakes Polka.”

Who are Gus Polinski and the Kenosha Kickers?

600

This monument was the site of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech in 1963.

What is the Lincoln Memorial?

600

This German goldsmith is credited with the invention of the printing press, which enabled mass production of literature, as well as a version of the Bible bearing his name.

Who is Johannes Gutenberg?

600

Name + dʒeɪ = this first chief justice

Who is John Jay?

600

Think it over… Gluhwein is a German wine that has gone through this heating and spicing process.

What is mulling?

600

Kevin scares Marv and Harry away from his home the first time by playing this heavenly fake gangster movie.

What is Angels with Filthy Souls?

800

This letter was omitted as the name of an east-west DC street since it was too easily confused with the letter preceding it.

What is J?

800

This Renaissance polymath is perhaps best known for his (controversial) heliocentric model of the universe.

Who is Nicolas Copernicus?

800

Dʒeɪ + a letter = this business, man

Who is Jay-Z?

800

Reminiscent of the hard candies, Fireball Whiskey, which comes in 42 and 66 proof, tastes of this spice.

What is cinnamon?

800

Kevin doesn’t want to sleep on the hide-a-bed with this cousin, who has a tendency to drink too much Pepsi and wet the bed.

Who is Fuller McCallister?

1000

This French-American artist and engineer originally designed Washington, DC after it was designated the new site of the US Capitol.

Who is Pierre Charles L'Enfant?

1000

On August 7, 1501, this man wrote “We discovered that the new land was not an island but a continent.”

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

1000

Dʒeɪ + a quiet Robert = these mallrats

Who are Jay and Silent Bob?

1000

This verb refers to adding extra alcohol to wine to produce liquors like port or sherry.

What is to fortify?

1000

While watching Old Man Marley spreading ice before the snowstorm, Buzz suggests that their neighbor might be this notorious serial killer.

Who is the South Bend Shovel Slayer?

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