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This saint is associated with cherubs, love, and a brutal Chicagoland mob massacre in 1929.

St. Valentine

200

Named for an area that covers southern Missouri, Arkansas, and small parks of Kansas and Oklahoma, this spring water actually comes from two springs in Texas.

Ozarka

200

This large flightless bird, was variously declared to be a small ostrich, an albatross, or a vulture by early scientists.  The last widely accepted sighting was in 1662, less than a century after its discovery by Europeans and has since become a symbol of extinction on obsolescence.

Dodo

200

This cantankerous muppet lives in a trash can on Sesame Street.  

Oscar the Grouch

200

This type of computer virus shares its name with the device Odysseus used to enter a besieged city and conquer it.

Trojan Horse

400

This saint was a high-ranking officer in the Roman army and, according to legend, confronted the Emperor about his persecution of Christians before he was martyred.  He is the patron saint of Georgia, England, Ukraine, Ethiopia and the Catalonia and Aragon regions of Spain as well as soldiers, archers, and armorers.  

St George (probably did not fight a real dragon)

400

After the success of La Croix seltzer water, PepsiCo entered the seltzer water game with this brand

Bubly

400

This bear appears on the flag of California, though it was last seen in Sequoia National Park in 1924.  

California Grizzly Bear

400

This professional boxer competed from 1992 until 2008, winning 11 world titles in six weight classes.  He won a gold medal in boxing at the 1992 Summer Olympics and boasts a record of 39 wins, 30 by knockout, and 6 losses.  

Oscar de la Hoya

400

This type of computer virus locks a user out of their files, promising to restore access if the user pays the hacker a specified sum of money

Ransomware

600

This Saint, canonized in 1975, and the first American-born canonized by the Catholic Church was the founder of the Sisters of Charity.

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

600

Known for its distinctive green bottle, this French mineral water has been bottled and exported since 1898.

Perrier

600

This wolf, named for the Asian archipelago on which it lived, is believed to be the last surviving wild member of the Pleistocene wolf lineage and may have been the closest wild relative to the domestic dog.

Japanese Wolf (Honshu wolf)

600

Nicknamed "Blade Runner", this South African sprinter (and now, convicted murderer) was born missing the outside both feet and both fibulae but became just the 10th athlete to compete at both the Paralympic Games and the Olympic games when he competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Oscar Pistorius

600

Widely believed to be the first computer virus targeted specifically at children, this virus, which is named after a Pokemon character, first appeared in 2000.

Pikachu Virus

800

This saint was declared a heretic and blasphemer and burned at the stake on May 30, 1431, at 19 years of age.  Twenty-five years later, an inquisitorial court overturned the verdict, declaring it was tainted by deceit and clerical errors.

Joan of Arc

800
This "natural artesian water" is filtered through volcanic rock and marketed in an iconic square bottle.

Fiji Water

800

The last of this carnivorous marsupial, which, despite its names was neither a canid nor a feline, died at Hobart Zoo in 1936, though alleged sightings continue to today.

Tasmanian Tiger (Tasmanian Wolf)

800

This Domincan-American fashion designer became internationally known in the 1960s as one of the couturiers who dressed Jacqueline Kennedy.  He died in 2014 and was later honored by the United States Postal Service with an 11 stamp series.  

Oscar de la Renta

800

A botnet is a network of internet connected devices often used to send spam or conduct DDoS attacks.  DDoS stands for this

Distributed Denial of Service

1000

This patron saint of sailors is also the namesake for a weather phenomenon also called witchfire in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a mast, spire, chimney, or other rod-like object in an atmospheric electric field which often warns of an imminent lightning strike.

St. Elmo

1000

One of the top five brands of bottled water in the United States, with nearly $830 million in sales annually, this bottled water brand is made by distilling spring water before adding minerals to the distilled water.  

Smartwater

1000

Named for the coastal region in which it lived, this lion's range spanned from Morocco to Egypt for about 100,000 years before being hunted to extinction in the 1960s.

Barbary Lion (Atlas Lion or Berber Lion)

1000

Real name Oscar Gutierrez, this professional wrestler won 24 championships between the WWE and the WCW, including three world championships, is considered one of the greatest cruiserweight wrestlers of all time, and was just inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame under this ring name.

Rey Mysterio

1000

Widely believed to be a joint venture between the United States and Israel, this computer worm primarily infected systems in Iran, including its uranium enrichment program.

Stuxnet

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