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This coffee-flavored liqueur from Mexico is a key ingredient in a White Russian cocktail - but that's just, like, your opinion, man. 

What is Kahlúa?

200

Players in this train-themed game collect cards of various colors and use them to claim railway routes across maps of countries and continents.

What is Ticket to Ride?

200

This 1980 hard-rock juggernaut welcomed Brian Johnson & became AC/DC’s best-seller with tracks like “Hells Bells.”

What is Back in Black?

200

This 1976 Starland Vocal Band single about “skyrockets in flight” became a #1 Billboard hit.

What is "Afternoon Delight"?

200

This 1954 Alfred Hitchcock thriller stars James Stewart as a photographer who believes he’s witnessed a murder from his apartment window.

What is Rear Window

400

Originally produced in Trinidad, this brand of aromatic bitters is a staple in Old Fashioneds and Manhattans.

What is Angostura?

400

In this classic abstract strategy game, players place black or white stones on a 19x19 grid, with the aim of surrounding more territory than their opponent.

What is Go?

400

[DAILY DOUBLE] James Bond’s preferred casino pastime in the novels, this card game pits “player” vs. “banker” in punto banco and chemin de fer variants. 

What is baccarat?

400

Neil Young’s 1970 album, featuring the title track and “Only Love Can Break Your Heart,” is this golden release.

What is After the Goldrush

400

Congress created this rank in order to honor Farragut for his victory at New Orleans. 

What is rear admiral?

600

This Swedish vodka brand is known for its minimalist bottle design and name that means “complete." 

What is Absolut?

600

In this cooperative game, players work together as specialists trying to contain and cure four global disease outbreaks before time runs out.

What is Pandemic?

600

With hits like “I Want It That Way” and “Larger Than Life,” this Orlando-formed boy band kept ’90s TRL screaming.

Who are the Backstreet Boys?

600

This 2022 Apple TV+ comedy-mystery follows the fallout of a high school reunion that turns deadly.

What is The Afterparty

600

Nicknamed “The Terminator” for his scary fastball, this relief pitcher retired in 1992 with 367 saves, then an MLB record.

Who is Jeff Reardon? 

800

A mix of vodka, triple sec, and lime juice, this cocktail shares its name with a Japanese word for a World War II “divine wind.”

What is a kamikaze?

800

In this civilization-building card drafting game, players guide a society through three “ages,” competing to build military, science, and cultural dominance.

What is Seven Wonders?

800

Great Scott! This 1985 Robert Zemeckis film sends Marty McFly to 1955 in a DeLorean needing 1.21 gigawatts.

What is Back to the Future?

800

Martin Scorsese’s 1985 dark comedy follows Griffin Dunne through a surreal night in SoHo in this film.

What is After Hours

800

In accounting or finance, when payments are overdue or late, they’re said to be “in” this.

What is arrears? 

1000

This red grape variety from Spain’s Rioja region produces full-bodied wines often aged in oak barrels.

What is Tempranillo? 

1000

This storytelling card game, first published in 2008, challenges players to match abstract artwork to a clue given by the storyteller.

What is Dixit?

1000

Known to the Greeks as Dionysus, this Roman god presided over wine, revelry, and ecstatic rites. 

Who is Bacchus? 

1000

Will Smith and his son Jaden starred in this 2013 sci-fi adventure, set on a dangerous, abandoned Earth.

What is After Earth

1000

A military detachment left to protect an army from attack from behind is known by this name.

What is a rearguard? 

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