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100

This three-time Super Bowl champion holds the NFL records for most receptions, receiving yards, and touchdowns.

Jerry Rice

100

This Stand! band encouraged "Everyday People" to "Dance to the Music".

Sly and the Family Stone

100

In 1873 Levi Strauss introduced the public to this durable garment.

Denim Jeans

100

This is full of holes but still holds water.

Sponge

100

This simple wooden furniture for lunch in a park outlines what's contained in a book.

Picnic Table of Contents

200

In 1986, Greg LeMond became the first American to win this world famous cycling race.

Tour de France

200

This Jerry Garcia band may have a "Touch of Grey", but "Casey Jones" is still "Truckin'".

The Grateful Dead

200

In 1927 Philo Farnsworth and his gang produced this device in their lab on the corner of Green and Sansome.

Television

200

This has to be broken before it can be used.

Egg

200

This Historic New York City sports arena where Adam & Eve lived in the Bible.

Madison Square Garden of Eden

300

This left fielder holds the MLB records for career stolen bases, runs, unintentional walks and leadoff home runs.

Rickey Henderson

300

When the "Lights" go down, this band wants to get back to their city by the bay.

Journey

300

Ettore Steccone, a window washer from Oakland who had to wash windows using rags and mops, invented this device in 1936 to make his janitorial life easier.

Squeegee

300

This is only worth giving if you can keep it.

Your Word

300

A celestial body of extremely intense gravity that scores an ace in golf.

Black Hole in One

400

This Hayward native took the gold medal in Ladies Figure Skating at the 1992 Olympic Games.

Kristi Yamaguchi

400

This band featured Janis Joplin singing hits like "Down on Me" and "Summertime".

Big Brother and the Holding Company

400

In 1952 UC Berkeley physicist Hugh Bradner used neoprene to make this garment now worn by surfers and scuba divers.

Wetsuit

400

The more of this there is, the less you see.

Darkness

400

A Central Florida NBA team used by Prince Husain in One Thousand and One Nights

Orlando Magic Carpet

500

This boxer from San Francisco won the Light Heaveyweight gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games and went to enjoy an undefeated professional record of 32-0, with 16 KOs

Andre Ward

500

This alpha-numeric rapper from Vallejo asked us to "Tell Me When to Go".

E-40

500

In 1967 Stanford professor John Chowning discovered an algorithm for FM music, which led to the development the earliest of these devices used to make electronic music.

Synthesizer

500

You can never answer "yes" to this question.

"Are you sleeping?"

500

The collective name for the small group that picks the President and the Pope.

Electoral College of Cardinals