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100
This basketball player, often called "His Airness," won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Who is Michael Jordan?
100
This sandwich, associated with Philadelphia, is traditionally made with thinly sliced beef and melted cheese on a long roll.
What is a cheesesteak?
100
In many early 20th-century American cities, this term referred to overcrowded housing units where multiple immigrant families often lived in a single building.
What is tenement housing?
100
We went to war with this country over "terrorism" (oil).
What is Iraq?
100
This 1919 constitutional amendment set a national ban on alcohol before being repealed just 14 years later.
What is the 18th Amendment?
200
This American scientist developed the first successful vaccine against polio in the 1950s.
Who is Jonas Salk?
200
This variety of apple, discovered in Washington state in the 1920s, is now one of the most widely grown apples in the United States.
What is a Red Delicious apple?
200
In early American cities, this person went door-to-door collecting waste before modern sanitation systems existed.
What is a night soil collector?
200
More children die from this object in America than anywhere else in the world.
What is a gun?
200
These were a series of 1950s congressional investigations, led by a Wisconsin senator, which targeted alleged communists.
What is McCarthyism?
300
In 1969, these three American astronauts became the first humans to land on the Moon.
Who are Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins?
300
What famous, torched dessert first began to be served at New York's Delmonico's Restaurant in the 1870s?
What is baked Alaska?
300
This 19th-century job involved traveling in a community from farm to farm helping neighbors with large tasks, with the work usually occurring in a single day.
What is barn-raising?
300
This is the most common reason for bankruptcy in the United States.
What is medical bankruptcy? (Bankruptcy occurring due to medical bills). 
300
This Kansas-based temperance activist was known for entering saloons with a hatchet and smashing liquor bottles in the early 1900s.
Who is Carry Nation?
400
This American track and field star won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
Who is Jesse Owens?
400
Named for a Kentucky city, this cured country ham is protected by a federal designation requiring it to be produced in a specific region.
What is Smithfield ham?
400
This early internet service popularized free music sharing and helped trigger major legal battles over digital copyright in the early 2000s.
What is Napster?
400
This country, famous for its distinct coffee culture and burgeoning textile industry, beats the United States in average internet download speeds.
What is Vietnam? (The US ranks 11th out of 138 in average internet download speeds). 
400
This U.S. president had a pet goat that reportedly ate White House documents.
Who is William Howard Taft?
500
This American adventurer survived being pinned under a boulder for over five days before amputating his own arm to escape.
Who is Aron Ralston?
500
Developed by American agronomist Norman Borlaug, certain varieties of this grain helped launch the Green Revolution and greatly increased global food production.
What is dwarf wheat?
500
First mass-produced in 1919, this luxury item—there are now on average 1.47 in every American home—could cost the equivalent of several weeks’ wages when first widely sold.
What is a refrigerator?
500
DAILY DOUBLE (each team guesses, closest gets the points)
What is the amount of money the average American has in debt?
$38,000.
500
This is the only actor ever to win an Oscar for portraying a US President on-screen.
Who is Daniel Day-Lewis? (Lincoln).