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100

This is the slogan of Ebenezer's Coffeehouse.

What is "Coffee with a cause"?

100
In 2008, Arlington County erected a plaque outside of a parking garage on Nash street in Rosslyn to commemorate its historical significance as the location of several clandestine meetings between journalist Bob Woodward and this source.

Who is Mark Felt (aka "Deep Throat")?

100

After being taken with the 24th pick in the 2005 draft, he became a Super Bowl champion quarterback for the Green Bay Packers.

Who is Aaron Rodgers?

100

When Turkey Hill asked 4000 customers to give their favorite ice cream flavor, it was this choice, and not either of the top two in sales, vanilla or chocolate.

What is "mint chocolate chip?"

100

This is the distillery visited by Ron Swanson which he declares to be "the one place in Europe worth seeing".

What is the Lagavulin Distillery?

200

The name of the 2011 summer sermon series culminated with a live album recording at the Lincoln theater.

What is The God Anthology?
200

This DC delicacy is a sausage which half-pork and half-beef, smoked, and served with herbs, onion, and chili sauce. 

What is a "half-smoke"?

200

This movie had the largest US box office revenue in 1984, and featured a cop from Detroit visiting Los Angeles to solve his friend's murder.

What is "Beverly Hills Cop"?

200

This is the term NOAA uses to describe "the frozen water part of the Earth system."

What is, the cryosphere?

200

This is a Gaelic word meaning "water of life".

What is "whiskey"?

300

This is the number of people Pastor Mark cites as the regular attendance of the earliest period of National Community Church.

What is 19? (We will also accept 25, the average attendance at The Giddings School on Capitol Hill in 1996.)

300

In February of 2020, this type of music became the official music of Washington, DC.

What is go-go music?

300

This spacecraft made it's first flight on August 30, 1984, was decommissioned in 2011, and is now on display at the Udvar-Hazy Annex of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.

What is space shuttle Discovery?

300

Icehotel, which features rooms and even furniture constructed from ice taken from the nearby river is located in a northern village of this country.

What is Sweden?

300

Tequila is a form of mezcal, which is the type of liquor distilled from this plant, native to the hot and arid regions of the Americas.

What is the agave plant?

400

On September 21 of this year, the theaters of Ballston Common Mall became the first Northern Virginia campus of NCC.

What is 2003?

400

This is the number of combined championships of the four major Washington professional sports franchises (NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL).  

What is 6?  (3 for NFL, 1 each for the rest)

400

In 1998 at age 14, this actress got her big break on a Fox sitcom featuring a group of high school friends.  She responded vaguely to a query about meeting the filming requirement of being at least 18 years old by saying: "I will be."

Who is Mila Kunis?

400

On August 3, 1958, this nuclear submarine accomplished the first undersea voyage to the geographic North Pole.

What is the U.S.S. Nautilus?

400

This distilled alcoholic drink derives its predominant flavour from juniper berries.

What is gin?

500

These are the children of the second full-time Ballston campus pastor.

Who are Anja and Magnus Pastian?

500

The streets of this DC intersection compose both the title of the West Wing episode in which Mrs. Landingham's fatal car accident occurs and the location where it happens.

What is "18th and Potomac"?

500

Before retiring in 2018, this Argentinian footballer had obtained two Olympic gold medals and participated in four World Cups, including as captain in 2010.

Who is Javier Mascherano?

500

This major feature of Antartica contains 3.2 million cubic kilometers of ice and goes by the acronym WAIS.

What is the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?

500

According to Alcohol.org and the WHO, this small land-locked country in Europe consumes the greatest average number of liters of pure alcohol, at 14.4 liters per person, per year.

What is Belarus?

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