Chess
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100

The piece that starts the game on the outermost squares.

What is a rook/castle?

100

This open circle denotes 4 beats. 

What is a whole note?

100

The state's nickname.

What is "Land of Enchantment"?

100

This country is the natural answer to any pun on Hungary.

What is Turkey?

100

This red fruit is often mistaken for a vegetable.

What is a tomato?

200

The position in which one player is not in check but cannot move.

What is stalemate?

200

This stack of numbers tells how many beats there are in a measure.

What is a time signature?

200

The 15000' mountain inside the Valles Caldera.

What is Redondo Peak?

200

The capital of Djibouti.

What is Djibouti City?

200

This blue fruit is often enjoyed at breakfast.

What are blueberries?

300

A situation in which a piece threatens two or more other pieces simultaneously.

What is a fork?

300

This composer wrote over 1000 pieces, but also played the organ.

Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?

300

The state bird.

What is the roadrunner?

300

Otherwise known as Ayers Rock, this Australian landmark is the world's largest monolith.

What is Uluru?

300

This crisp fruit comes in hundreds of varieties.

What is the apple?

400

This well-known chess engine defeated GM Gary Kasparov.

What is Deep Blue?

400

This Austrian composer, who only lived to 23, is often depicted as a mouse.

Who is Mozart?

400

The state's very strange motto.

What is: "It Grows as it Goes"?

400

This "city" is actually the world's smallest country.

What is Vatican City?

400

This green fruit has five lobes extending along its length, which are the source of its name.

What is the starfruit?

500

A variant of chess played on a 6x6 board without bishops, this is the first chess game to be won by a computer.

What is Los Alamos chess?

500

This contemporary violin player uses extensive electronic effects in her performances, which often include instrumental arrangements of popular music.

Who is Lindsey Stirling?

500

The approximate population of the state.

What is 2,100,000?

(Or, more accurately, 2,085,109?)

500

This is the largest section of Germany. Incidentally, its name bears a slight resemblance to "beverage".

What is Bavaria?

500

This small red fruit can be found in the Jemez Mountains.

What is the rose hip?