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Jean-François Champollion announced the transliteration of the Egyptian scripts inscribed into this stone which bears Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic, Demotic Scripts and Ancient Greek scripts.

Rosetta Stone

100

This home to the Bronx Bombers began construction

Yankee Stadium

100

This animal represents the Chinese New Year

Tiger

100

This singer died in a plane crash on January 1, 1985

Ricky Nelson

100

Eye colors range from very light blue to dark brown and include combinations such as amber, gray, and hazel. In the US, this is the least common color or combination at 9%.

Green

200

President

James Monroe

200

This empire was at its largest extent.

The British Empire

200

In Roman Numerals

MMXXII

200

The translation of the title of the song “Auld Lang Syne”

Times gone by

200

Current most common purebred dog breed in US

Labrador Retriever

300

This area became an organized territory of the United States

Florida

300

This hard chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bar was patented by Christian K. Nelson

Eskimo Pie

300

The Olympics host city

Beijing

300

The name of the calendar that is most widely used in the world today and marked January 1 as New Years in 1582

Gregorian Calendar

300

This land of snow is the largest island in the world

Greenland

400

This was the original name of the poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas”

“A Visit from St Nicholas”

400

US President

Harding

400

This country plans to launch first crewed space flight

India

400

The date when New Year’s was celebrated in ancient Rome

March 1

400

Per the 2020 Census, this is the 4th largest US Metropolitan Statistical Area

Dallas-Fort Worth (Arlington)

500

This region was founded and colonized by the American Colonization Society which sent freed African-American slaves as settlers from the United States to this region to live a better life, based on self-governance, equal opportunity, and freedom.

Liberia

500

This ship was the first aircraft carrier in the US Navy

The USS Langley

500

This country plans to phase out the last of its nuclear power plants

Germany

500

The New Year’s Eve Ball first dropped in Times Square in this year

1907

500

Each winter in the US, at least 1 septillion ice crystals fall from the sky. A septillion is a one followed by this number of zeros

24

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