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COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
400
Dairy is big in this state that has a cow & a big block of cheese on its state quarter
Wisconsin
400
The Beastie Boys promised, "No! sleep! 'til" this borough! Even if you don't know the song, you have a 1-in-5 shot
Brooklyn
400
This Norse god kept an eye on his wife Frigg, who herself presided over marriage
Odin
400
Unable to capture Osaka Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu made peace--then filled in these, redeclared war & took the castle
moats
400
Recordings by Duke Ellington & Art Tatum featured Ben Webster's soulful solos on the tenor type of this instrument
saxophone
400
Telephone directories in this Nordic nation of 400,000 list everyone alphabetically by first name
Iceland
800
This American cook was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2000
(Julia) Child
800
In this title place, "I'm a doll but I still wanna party, pink 'Vette like I'm ready to bend, I'm a ten so I pull in a Ken"
Barbie World
800
Not just a hamlet in New York, it's the site of slain warriors where the same unfortunate boar is eaten & resurrected daily
Valhalla
800
Aries was the Roman word for this device used to assault many a castle
a battering ram
800
"Violon" can start the name of this instrument, one of the 4 main ones in the violin family
cello
800
This Eastern European country's 2-letter Internet code is by.
Belarus
1200
In 1606 Guy Fawkes went to the gallows near this building he had tried to blow up with 36 barrels of gunpowder the year before
Parliament
1200
MC Hammer used Rick James' "Super Freak" in this 1990 Top 10 hit with a "tactile" title
"U Can't Touch This"
1200
Thought invincible, Balder got the kiss of death after getting hit with a sprig of this shrub, the one thing that could do the job
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PICKLE PARTY ANSWER!!!
1200
A Jacobite force failed to take this castle in 1715, the ladder they brought turned out to be too short to scale the ramparts
Edinburgh Castle
1200
It's a part of Irish music, American bluegrass & the Baroque concerto repertoire
the mandolin
1200
At around 3,850 feet from base to peak, Cerro Blanco near the city of Nazca in this country is one of the world's tallest sand dunes
Peru
1600
September 10 is St. Barloc's Day but is unlikely to have a parade, since St. Barloc was a well-known one of these recluses
a hermit
1600
"911 Is A Joke" is a track on their 1990 album "Fear of a Black Planet"
Public Enemy
1600
The 9 realms include Alfheim, home of the light elves, Nidavellir, home of the dwarves & this, home to us puny ol' mortals
Midgard
1600
Now meaning to secretly weaken, it originally meant to tunnel below a fortification in order to collapse the walls
undermine
1600
The gambang is an Indonesian version of this percussion instrument that's struck with sticks or mallets
a xylophone
1600
3 African nations have Guinea in their names: Guinea, Equatorial Guinea & this one that contains the name of its capital
Guinea-Bissau
2000
In 1879 in Mannheim, this inventor completed work on his 2-stroke gasoline engine
Karl Benz
2000
2023 rap songs with movie title titles included "The Gods Must Be Crazy" & Ken Carson's recalling this Megan Fox-Amanda Seyfried film
Jennifer's Body
2000
As "Watchman of the Gods", he could see 100 leagues; another skill was the ability to hear grass grow, for some reason
Heimdall
2000
In the event of a surprise attack, defenders could quickly lower this heavy grate
a portcullis
2000
Way bigger than a harmonica but with most of the same letters, it's also called a reed organ & was replaced by electronic organs
a harmonium
2000
In 1974 under King Hussein, this country granted women the right to vote
Jordan
