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400

You can apologize (as the name says) when you send someone back to the start in this Parker Brothers board game

Sorry!

400

Just like a papaya, this fruit when unripe contains enzymes that can tenderize meat

Mango

400

In 1793 this French queen was tried & executed, charged with giving military secrets to her brother Emperor Leopold II

Marie Antoinette

400

In astronomy telescopes see stars; in this -ology, horoscopes predict stars' effects

Astrology

400

To us, it's brighter than any other planet or any star (except the Sun)

Venus

800

Boggle is a word search game; you make words using wood tiles in this classic board game

Scrabble

800

This hot pepper is named after the capital of the state of Veracruz

JalapeƱo

800

Around 325 this Christian emperor began a basilica in Rome on the spot where St. Peter's stands today

Constantine (the Great)

800

Urbanology is the study of the problems of these places

Cities

800

As you can guess, a satellite named Nereid, a sea nymph, circles this planet

Neptune

1200

Collect pieces of cheese & build a zany contraption to try to catch your opponents in this board game

Mouse Trap

1200

The large dark brown crimino mushroom became much more popular when its name was changed to this

Portobello

1200

Plato's "Phaedo" describes this man's final days, including his death by poison

Socrates

1200

Cellular & developmental are major branches of this life science

Biology

1200

The USA's Gamma Ray Observatory orbited this planet from 1991 until 2000, when it deorbited and safely crashed

Earth

1600

The name of this game in which you stack hardwood blocks into a tower comes from a Swahili word for "to build"

Jenga

1600

This fruit related to the grapefruit is also called a shaddock

Pomelo

1600

After abdicating this country's throne in 1654, Christina tried to get the throne in Poland or Naples--didn't work

Sweden

1600

A rheumatology textbook might cover tennis elbow, as the elbow is one of these

A joint

1600

It travels about 30 miles per second, moving around the sun faster than any other planet

Mercury

2000

Find out which of Mr. Boddy's guests murdered him in his own mansion & with what weapon in this classic mystery game

Clue

2000

The name of this kind of tuna is Spanish for "pretty"

Bonito

2000

He told the Rump Parliament, "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing lately, depart, I say"

Oliver Cromwell

2000

Gerontology, the study of these people, has no interest in those your age

Old age 

2000

A Greek God inspired the name of this planet, the farthest that can be seen without a telescope

Uranus

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