American History
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ITs A Planet
100
Its November 11, 1889 statehood filled in a corner of the Contigious U.S
What is Washington
100

Syria

Arabic

100
Within 6 years of moving his lab to Menlo Park, he had applied for around 400 new patents
Edison
100

The beach version of this has been an Olympic sport since 1996

volleyball

100
Our closest neighbor, it has a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead
What is venus
200
In 1916, German saboteurs blew up a New Jersey munitions depot, sending shrapnel into this nearby landmark's gown
Statue of Liberty
200
Zambia
English
200
After failing to make synthetic rubber out of chicle, Thomas Adams flavored it & sold it as this
Gum
200

The Brits put "gridiron" before this sport to refer to the American version

football

200
Its most prominent feature, the Great Red Spot, is more than twice as wide as the Earth
Jupiter
300
In 1856 William Dayton became the first vice presidential candidate of this new party
Republican
300
Panama
Spanish
300
In the 1960s James T. Russell invented these to replace vinyl records; now they're giving way to downloads
CD's
300

You need just a ball & a wall to play this sport with a body part in its name

handball

300
Its frozen dry ice polar caps recede & advance with the planet's seasons
Mars
400
In Dec. 1941 the Declaration of Independence was packed up & sent to this gold depository for safekeeping
Fort Knox
400
Monoco
French
400
In 1895 he began sending & receiving wireless signals as far as 1.5 miles at his father's home near Bologna, Italy
Marconi
400

The ITTF is the International Federation for this ball & racket sport-- that's the "TT"

Table Tennis

400
The only Planet without moons or rings
Mercury
500
This state furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state besides Virginia, and more soldiers for the Union Army than the rest of the Confederacy combined
Tennessee
500
Liechtenstein
Germany
500
This navigating instrument that helps find latitude & longitude was first developed in the 1750s
Sextant
500

It was invented in the winter of 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts

basketball

500
This planet is the densest in our Solar System
Earth
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