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HIP-HOP LITERARY REFERENCES
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Traces of Pb, this element, are found in everyday substances like old house paint, where they can be dangerous

Lead

100

In "SpottieOttieDopaliscious" , André 3000 says the drama at the club is "reminiscent of Charles", this 19th century author

Dickens

100

Driver Richard Petty won his 200th & last NASCAR race on July 4, 1984 at this Florida locale

Daytona Beach

100

Influenza is caused by these infectious microbes, so antibiotics won't help

Viruses

100

One story says the inventor of this type of coffee was inspired by a shipment of beans accidentally soaked by seawater

Decaf

201

It's the element Hg & it's a god

Mercury

201

A 2Pac alter ego & a Waka Flocka flame album both allude to this Italian author of "The Prince"

Machiavelli

201

The sin bin is another name for this place where a hockey player goes to wait out an infraction

Penalty box

201

Canine influenza was first identified in 2004 among these racing dogs

Greyhounds

201

On the tree, coffee berries aren't called beans but these, rhyming with berries

Cherries

300

Most of what we call this elemental foil is actually made with aluminum

Tin

300

Sharing a name with a 1920s Harlem Renaissance book, "The Blacker The Berry" is a song off this rapper's "To Pimp a Butterfly"

Kendrick Lamar

300

Named for the 3-decade president of its gov. body, this tourney's top prize was once called the Jules Rimet Trophy

FIFA World Cup

300

Research has linked influenza pandemics to this global weather event, El Niño's counterpart

La Nina

300

Jacques-Victor Delforge & Henri-Otto Mayer filed a patent for this type of plunger-based device in 1852

The French Press

400

Consuming too much of this element, atomic number 11, can lead to high blood pressure

Sodium

400

This rapper & "Law & Order: SVU" actor titled his spoken word track "Soul on Ice" after Eldridge Cleaver's memoir

Ice-T

400

The target for this sport measures 12 feet across & is called a house

Curling

400

Early reports of this "national" flu appeared in the uncensored press of the country, which was neutral in WWI

The Spanish Flu

400

Before this process, coffee beans are green; after, they're brown & ready to grind

Roasting

500

Time to find out who's got the big mo, & this big Mo helps stimulate chemical reactions that get rid of sulfur in petroleum

Molybdenum

500

On "Call Me If You Get Lost", Tyler, the Creator takes on this last name of a 19th c. French poet & also of a Lemony Snicket family

Baudelaire

500

From 1976 to 1980 this alliteratively named Swede won 5 straight singles titles at Wimbledon

Björn Borg

500

Flu strains are determined by the makeup of 2 antigens known by these 2 letters, as in _1_1

H & N

500

These 2 words on a bag of coffee mean its supply chain has been independently certified as meeting sustainability labor standards

Fair Trade

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