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This celestial body makes up 99.8% of our solar system's mass.

The Sun
100

On May 21, 1927, he completed the first non-stop, solo transatlantic flight in the Spirit of St. Louis.

Charles Lindbergh

100

This Michigan city is known as the Cherry Capital of the World.

Traverse City

100

And angle between 90 and 180 degrees is called this.

Obtuse

100

Where you would find the aortic, mitral, pulmonary and tricuspid valves.

The Heart

100

A rotund feline.

A Fat Cat

200

The asteroid belt is a region of space between the orbits of these two planets, the last of the terrestrial planets and the first of the gas giants.

Mars and Jupiter

200

While this famous French fortress could hold over 100 prisoners, there were only 7 when it was besieged by more than 1,000 revolutionists on July 14, 1789.

The Bastille in Paris

200

The world's first tunnel connecting two countries stretches nearly half a mile below the Detroit River between Detroit and this Canadian city.

Windsor

200

This mathematical constant has its own holiday, March 14.

Pi, which is most commonly abbreviated to 3.14.

200

The synovial joint that connects the femur and tibia bones is more commonly known as this.

The Knee

200

A broth ladle.

A Soup Scoop

300

Shoemaker-Levy 9 was this type of celestial body that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in 1994.

A Comet

300

You have a 0.5% chance of being one of the roughly 16 million living descendants of this 13th century founder of the Mongol Empire.

Genghis Khan

300

Michigan's 3,000+ miles of Great Lake coastline are home to more of these structures than are found in any other state in the US.

Lighthouses

300

This formula, known as the Pythagorean Theorem, is used to calculate the hypotenuse of a right triangle based on the lengths of the two shorter sides.

A2+B2=C2

300

Two of the eight bones that make up this skeletal feature are the porietal and occipital.

The skull

300

A hammer's educational institution.

A Tool School

400

The axis of this icy planet, the seventh from the sun, is tiled 980, giving the impression of a rolling ball circling the sun.

Uranus

400

In addition to Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy, name one of the two remaining US presidents to have been assassinated.

James Garfield (1881) and William McKinley (1901)

400

This American rugged apparel company, headquartered in Dearborn, was founded in 1889, making it one of the oldest family-owned companies in the state.

Carhartt

400

In geometry, two points are required to define a ray or a line, while this number of points are required to define a circle or a plane.

Three

400

Some studies suggest that, as the human diet evolved to include more easily digestible food, this organ eventually lost it function.

The Appendix

400

Vehicles belonging to a Russian emperor.

A Tsar's Cars

500

The last two Mars Rovers were expected to operate for just 90 days, but Spirit continued for more than six years, and this, its twin, for nearly 15.

Opportunity

500

While Columbia was the first orbital space shuttle, the first shuttle prototype, unveiled in September of '76 and only used on five glide tests from 25,000 feet, was named this.

Enterprise

500

In operation since 1874, the J.W. Westcott II is the only floating one of these in the US, servicing the boats and ships passing through the Detroit River.

Post Office

500

By what name mnemonic is the mathematical Order of Operations, PEMDAS, which stands for Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication and Division, Addition and Subtraction, known?

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally

500

This small, pear-shaped organ stores and releases the bile produced by your liver that helps digest fats in the food you eat.

The Gallbladder

500

A garden ornament's domicile.

A Gnome Home

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