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It's a public school offering special instruction that's designed to "attract" a diverse student body.

What is a magnet school?

200

Repetitious bass sounds made by brass instruments.

What is oompah?

200

The nuts of this state tree resemble certain parts of a deer.

What is a buckeye?

200

Queen Maria II of this country was born in Brazil in 1819.

What is Portugal?

200

"We'll keep on fighting 'til the end" of this 1977 Queen smash.

What is "We Are the Champions"?

200

Pre-embargo 1950s Romeo y Julietas from this country sell for as much as $400 apiece.

What is Cuba?

400

From a word for "seed," it's a college that prepares students to be priests, ministers, or rabbis.

What is a seminary?

400

Creepily out of the ordinary.

What is eerie?

400

This NHL team's name celebrates Ohio's contribution to the winning side in the Civil War.

Who are the Blue Jackets?

400

The second Spanish queen of the name, she had a troubled reign, ending in her overthrow in 1868.

Who is Isabella?

400

This champion bareback rider was also nominated for a Grammy.

Who is Chris LeDoux?

400

Brownish-red cigars are classed as "C", standing for this Spanish word, also a U.S. state.

What is Colorado?

600

Influenced by Friedrich Froebel, in 1873 Susan Blow founded America's first public one of these for little kids in St. Louis.

What is a kindergarten?

600

To exude moisture slowly.

What is ooze?

600

Elected to the Senate in 1974, this Ohio native was even more famous for something he did 12 years before.

Who is John Glenn?

600

As queen of Egypt in the 1300s BCE, she played a prominent role in the cult of the sun god Aton.

Who is Nefertiti?

600

Did you sing this late diva's 1988 hit "One Moment In Time" as you qualified for the tournament?

Who is Whitney Houston?

600

A valet wrote of this Brit, "In two days his cigar consumption was the equivalent of my weekly salary."

Who is [Winston] Churchill?

400

In France, ecole is "school" and this is the word for a secondary school.

What is lycée?

400

Ant and termite eater.

What is aardvark?

400

This Ohio city was named for a Revolutionary War veterans society that was named for a Roman general.

What is Cincinnati?

400

The 18th-century war of this "Succession" helped keep Maria Theresa as ruler but cost her Silesia.

What is the War of the Austrian Succession?

400

In a 2013 hit that recalls a No. 1 from the '70s, Imagine Dragons was "On Top Of" it.

What is "Top of the World"?

400

Cigars keep best when stored in one of these, from a word meaning "moist."

What is a humidor?

1000

In the painting The School of Athens, these two great teachers are the center of attention.

Who are Plato and Aristotle?

1000

An amber Chinese tea.

What is oolong?

1000

To track the receipts of his Dayton bar, James Ritty invented this in 1879.

What is the cash register?

1000

Queen of the Iceni tribe, she led a British revolt vs. the Romans that saw her defeated in 60 AD.

Who is Boudicea?

1000

"Victory" is the final track on this Dave Mustaine band's 1994 platinum-selling album "Youthanasia."

Who is Megadeth?

1000

A popular cigar size shares its name with this outermost solar region.

What is corona?