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NOTABLE NAMES
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Lizard Island & Kangaroo Island

Australia

100

In her song, "Can't Be Tamed," she sings "it's set in my DNA;" her dad, Billy Ray, passed down to her some of that genetic code

Miley Cyrus

100

To stop your car & to fracture, hopefully while not stopping your car too fast

brake/break

100

In 1994, Disney invited theatergoers to "Be Our Guest" at this musical, Disney's first show to play on Broadway

Beauty and the Beast

100

His given name was Mohandas but he also was known as Mahatma, or "great soul"

Ghandi

200

Phuket & Ko Samui

Thailand

200

A Kidz Bop version of her 2017 song opens "I just took a DNA test, turns out I'm 100% that kid"

Lizzo

200

Wheat finely ground into a powder & a peony or petunia

flour/flower

200

One of the more recent additions to Disneyland is Galaxy's Edge, with rides & attractions inspired by this film franchise

Star Wars

200

This jazz great nicknamed "Satchmo" has an airport named for him serving New Orleans

Louis Armstrong

300

Ithaca & Paros

Greece

300

This boy band kicked off their DNA World Tour in 2022; they sang "I Want It That Way" & other hits

the Backstreet Boys

300

Granola or Count Chocula & a story published in sections in consecutive issues of a magazine

cereal/serial

300

Walt Disney coined this acronym for the experimental prototype community he planned to build in Florida; it would open in 1982

EPCOT

300

For leading scores of enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad, she was nicknamed the "Moses of her people"

Harriet Tubman

400

Tenerife & Minorca

Spain

400

For their hit song "DNA," this K-pop band released a video in which they dance and form a double helix

BTS

400

Somewhat average or about adequate & the price an airline charges for a ticket

fair/fare

400

In 2006, Disney acquired this computer animation leader that it had first collaborated with on "Toy Story"

Pixar

400

In power from 1985-1991, this last leader of the Soviet Union passed away in 2022 at age 91

Gorbachev

500

Komodo & Java

Indonesia

500

"I got, I got, I got, I got loyalty, got royalty, inside my DNA" is a lyric in a 2017 rap hit by this Pulitzer winner

Kendrick Lamar

500

To enhance an outfit by adding something nice & the expression of admiration you receive after you do that

complement/compliment

500

November 18, 1928 is considered Mickey Mouse's birthday; it's the date he debuted onscreen in this cartoon as a mischievous deckhand

Steamboat Willie

500

This Polish-born French physicist was not only famous for her research on radioactivity, she also coined the term

Marie Curie

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