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100

This expression means a person takes after one of their parents.

What is a chip off the old block? 

100

Baltic Avenue, Park Place, St. James Place, Atlantic Avenue, and Boardwalk are all street names in this city.

What is Atlantic City?

100

Even before she performed the final concert with the Supremes in 1970, she was recording her first solo album.

Who is Diana Ross?

100

This elongated car is used by wedding parties, in funeral processions, and to and from the office by moguls of industry.

What is a limousine? 

100

The popular saying "a month of Sundays" is flawed because you can have a maximum of only this number of Sundays in a month.

What is five?

200

You do this when you complete an item on your to-do list.

What is cross it off?

200

This capital city of a Pacific Rim country has the largest population in the world.

What is Tokyo? 

200

He left his band of five family members in 1979 and struck out on his own with two consecutive hit albums, Off the Wall and Thriller, right out of the gate.

Who is Michael Jackson?

200

In the film Murder on the Orient Express, the train ride starts in this city.

What is Istanbul?

200

This bell rings inside the giant grandfather-style clock that is one of the dominating features of the London skyline. 

What is Big Ben?

300

Ready-made clothes are also called this.

What is off the rack?

300

One of the world's most expensive places to live, this lavish European city is located on the Mediterranean Sea.

What is Monaco?

300

In 1971, this Beatle started a band known as Wings.

Who is Paul McCartney? 
300

One tourist adventure in Venice is to ride one of these through the canals.

What is gondola? 

300

This refers to a calendar that businesses or governments use when their calendars do not start on January 1. 

What is a fiscal year?

400

Take this to exit the interstate highway system.

What is an off-ramp?

400

Africa's oldest subway is found in this city.

What is Cairo?

400

A member of many bands, including Genesis before launching his successful solo career, his tune "In the Air Tonight" is among his many contributions to the world of music.

Who is Phil Collins?

400

Jules Verne wrote a book about traveling for five weeks in one of these unlikely modes of transportation, customarily used for recreation and sightseeing.

What is a balloon? 


The book is Five Weeks in a Balloon, a notable departure from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. 

400

When someone at a speech or presentation holds up their arm and taps their watch so the speaker can see it, it means this.

What is your time is up?

500

To take the blush off this flower is to find something mundane that was once exciting.

What is to take the bloom off the rose?

500

This European city is infamous for its red-light district.

What is Amsterdam? 

500

This popular duo, consisting of Paul and Art, who each went on to successful solo careers. 

Who are Simon and Garfunkel? 

500

Cruise control was designed by an engineer who had this disability. 

What is blindness? 

500

This ultra-precise device is so accurate that it can measure Earth's rotation slowing down by milliseconds.

What is an atomic clock?