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100

This shape shifting semi-synthetic fabric is made from purified cellulose fibers, which are typically created from wood pulp.

What is Rayon?

100

This viral internet phrase is often used in a humorous or ironic manner to call out or dismiss out-of-touch or closed-minded opinions associated with older people.

What is OK BOOMER?

100

Mined only in Wakanda, this metal is associated with Black Panther and with Captain America's shield.

What is Vibranium?

100

In 1995 this famous beer brand used commercials with three frogs ribbiting its 3-syllable.

What is Budweiser?

100

It is the most famous historical trade route, linking the major ancient civilizations of China and the Roman Empire

What is the Silk Road?

200

In this movie, a woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York City to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to a tyrannical editor-in-chief of a major fashion magazine.

What is The Devil Wears Prada?

200

This Brooklyn native and a graduate of Harvard Law School serves as the senior United States Senator from New York.

Who is Chuck Schumer?

200

In this late 1980's movie starring Sally Field, a young beautician arrives in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, and shares a close bond of friendship while her coworkers welcome her into the fold.

What is Steel Magnolias?

200

In 1971, this soft drink brand debuted a commercial called Hilltop, which featured singers from around the world proclaiming that they wanted to buy the world one of these.

What is a Coke?

200

In 1989, the Dallas Cowboys received 8 draft picks from the Minnesota Vikings for this one player. 

Who is Heschel Walker?

300

This New York City nightclub, which was briefly located in the midtown Theater District during the era of Prohibition, often included performers such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.

What is The Cotton Club?

300

This medical term describes a lump or growth that is not cancerous.

What is a benign tumor?

300

Some boys kiss her, some boys hug her, she think they're okay. Cause this famous musician is living in a material world and she is a material girl.

Who is Madonna?

300

The Discovery Channel airs a series of shrieking advertisements for this fishy week, proclaiming that its "So Good You’ll Scream" this word.

What is Shark (Week)?

300

This company's signature color was trademarked in 1998, and was originally called “Pullman Brown," when they first painted their trucks with it in 1916.

Who is UPS?

400

It is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent, and also one of the most famous songs by Led Zeppelin. 

What is Kashmir?

400

A Canadian port city in southwestern British Columbia on an arm of the Pacific Ocean.

What is Vancouver?

400

This True Detective got his big break in 1985, when he was cast as a sweet, dim-witted bartender on the wildly popular sitcom Cheers.

Who is Woody Harrelson?

400

Not to be confused with the 34th Secretary of Commerce that served from 2001 - 2005, this American national chain of country-living themed restaurants are famous for its sausage "down on the farm." 

What is Bob Evans?

400

This mid-1980's comedy movie starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy tells the story of an upper-class commodities broker and a poor street hustler whose circumstances are unwittingly swapped.

What is Trading Places?

500

This "Being" actor, director, producer, and fashion designer who received Academy Award nominations for his performances in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire once said "I'm a little bit of a fabric lunatic."

Who is John Malkovich?

500

To evade an opponent by moving faster or with greater agility.

What is Outmaneuver?

500

A special two-for-one noble gas related listing – this US state boasts not one, but two towns named after members of Group 18 of the Periodic Table - Krypton and Neon.

What is Kentucky?

500

This pop and country music star often mistaken as Hootie, sang in the famous Burger King Commercial for the Tender Crisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch sandwich in 2005.

Who is Darius Rucker?

500

This Wall Street trader became world-famous in 2007 by shorting the US housing market, as he foresaw the subprime mortgage crisis and bet against mortgage backed securities by investing in credit default swaps.

Who is John Paulson?