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100

This number of states touch the Pacific Ocean

What is five?

100

A player who can legally catch a pass is this type of receiver; some are bachelors, too.

What is eligible?

100

Conflict between the U.S. & the Soviet Union from the 1940s to the 1990s that’s a science fiction novel by H.G. Wells.

What is The Cold War of the Worlds?

100

In 1982, Boston magazine named the Bull and Finch pub in Beacon Hill the best neighborhood bar. It inspired this sitcom where everybody knew your name.

What is Cheers?

100

They said, "Books. Like paper podcasts."

Who is Mike Sobolewski?

200

The King James Bible refers to it as the Salt Sea.

What is the Dead Sea?

200

In baseball, to throw this illegal pitch, you need saliva and of course a ball.

What is a spitball?

200

Protective glove used to handle hot items on the stove that was the 2012 Republican nominee for president.

What is an Oven Mitt Romney?

200

In 1998, childhood friends, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won an Oscar for the screenplay of this film, set at MIT and around Harvard, where Damon originally began writing the script.   

What is Good Will Hunting?

200

They said, "The dishwasher is broken.  Well technically we don't have any dish soap"

Who is Kaleb Guion?

300

Wyoming’s largest lake, it lies right in the middle of a national park.

What is Yellowstone Lake?

300

Basketball players learn not to move this foot, the term for the axle around which a wheel turns.

What is a pivot?

300

The Great Bambino makes it to the Supreme Court.

Who is Babe Ruth Bader Ginsberg?

300

Local hero, Pete Frates, the man who inspired the ice bucket challenge, helped raise awareness and millions of dollars to fight this disease.

What is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)?

300

They said, "Concurrent review is so confusing they should call it Confusing review."

Who is Jayna Moloney?

400

Auckland, the chief port city of this country, was once its capital.

What is New Zealand?

400

Herb Brooks coached the U.S. to the “Miracle on Ice” hockey victory at this 1980 Winter Olympics site in the Adirondacks.

What is Lake Placid?

400

12th U.S. president who topped the pop charts with “Shake It Off”

Who is Zachary Taylor Swift?

400

On March 18, 1990, at 1:24 a.m., two men gained entrance to this Boston museum, and in less than 90 minutes, they made off with 13 works of art, which at the time were collectively valued at $200 million. None of the art has every been recovered.

What is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?

400

They said, "Would you have to disclose the violent nature of this turkey?"

Who is Seth Snyder?

500

This Argentine region’s name is Spanish for “big feet,” perhaps because Spaniards saw Indians who wore large boots.

What is Patagonia?

500

This controversial plastic horn became a staple of the 2010 World Cup and since the instrument has been banned by FIFA for subsequent World Cups. 

What is a vuvuzela?

500

Horse racing’s biggest trio of events that the queen only wears on special occasions.

What is the Triple Crown Jewels?

500

This former Boston Symphony conductor, believing great symphony music should be accessible to the masses, coordinated the first free Esplanade Concert, which was performed on July 4, 1929.

Who is Author Fiedler?

500

They said, "Not koala care paths but care paths for people."

Who is Siva!?