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100

THIS IS USED TO SPECIFY THE TIME AS "BEFORE NOON".

WHAT IS "ANTE MERIDIEM (A.M.)"?

100

THE ASSASSINATION OF THIS ARCH DUKE IS OFTEN CITED AS THE CAUSE OF WORLD WAR 1.

WHO IS "ARCH DUKE FRANZ FERDINAND"?

100

THERE ISN'T ANY LAND AVAILABLE FOR GERIATRIC GUYS.

WHAT IS "NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN"?

100

PICTURESQUE WELDS ARE OFTEN REFERRED TO AS "THIS PIECE OF CURRENCY", ALTHOUGH YOU'RE SURE TO MAKE MORE THAN THAT IF YOU'RE CONSISTENT.

WHAT IS "DIMES/LAYING DIMES"?

100

ALTHOUGH IT'S NAME TRANSLATES FROM LATIN AS "NEW SCOTLAND", THIS REGION WAS PREVIOUSLY A FRENCH COLONY.

 WHAT IS "NOVA SCOTIA"?

200

THE SUSPECT PROVIDED PROOF THAT HE WAS "ELSEWHERE" AT THE TIME OF THE CRIME.

WHAT IS AN "ALIBI"?

200

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE WAS BANISHED TO THIS VOLCANIC ISLAND IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC AFTER HE WAS BEATEN AT WATERLOO- THIS TIME FOR FINAL.

WHAT IS "ST HELENA"?

200

VISION BROADLY CLOSED.

WHAT IS "EYES WIDE SHUT"?

200
BOTH A MAP IN COUNTER STRIKE, AND A TERM USED TO REFER TO SHORT-TERM MEMORY IN COMPUTING, THIS FRENCH WORD MEANS "HIDDEN".
WHAT IS A "CACHE"?
200
"HERE'S LOOKING AT YOU, KID" - THIS MOROCCAN CITY STILL BEARS IT'S SPANISH NAME IN ENGLISH, MEANING THE SAME THING AS IT'S ARABIC NAME.

WHAT IS "CASABLANCA/DAR AL-BEYDA"?

300

MEANING GENUINE OR SINCERE, IT'S LATIN FOR "IN GOOD FAITH"

WHAT IS "BONA FIDE"?
300

UNTIL 1806, SOME GERMAN NOBLES INCLUDED AMONG THEIR HONORS THE TITLE OF "ELECTOR", FOR THEIR ROLE IN SELECTING THIS PERSONAGE. 

WHO IS THE "HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR"?

300

THE BABY SHEEP ARE QUIET.

WHAT IS "THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS"?

300

FORMER NFL QB JOE THEISMANN ONCE JOKED THAT HE HAD SHOUTED THIS WORD OVER 10,000 TIMES, BUT HAD NO IDEA WHAT IT MEANT.

WHAT IS "HUT"?

300

THE BIRTHPLACE OF IMMANUEL KANT, THIS RUSSIAN EXCLAVE WAS A GERMAN TERRITORY FOR NEARLY 700 YEARS BEFORE WORLD WAR 2.

WHAT IS "KALININGRAD"?

400

"THUS ALWAYS TO TYRANTS" - THE WORDS SAID TO HAVE BEEN UTTERED BY JOHN WILKES BOOTH AS HE ASSASSINATED ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

WHAT IS "SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS"?

400

THIS FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT THINKER, KNOWN FOR HIS "CANDIDE" WRITINGS, FORMED A SYNDICATE TO EXPLOIT A LOOPHOLE IN THE LOTTERY, MAKING HIM MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND CAUSING THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT TO SHUT THE LOTTERY DOWN.

WHO IS "VOLTAIRE"?

400

TRASHY NOVEL.

WHAT IS "PULP FICTION"?

400

BOTH AN INSTRUMENT AND A LEVEL OF VOLUME, IN ITALIAN THIS WORD MEANS FLOOR- OR FLAT.

WHAT IS "PIANO"?

400

BORDERED BY 3 NATIONS, IT'S THE WORLD'S LARGEST TROPICAL LAKE & THE WORLD'S SECOND-LARGEST FRESHWATER LAKE

WHAT IS LAKE VICTORIA?

500

A LOGICAL FALLACY- WHERE TEMPORAL SEQUENCE IS MISTAKEN FOR CAUSE & EFFECT. "AFTER THIS, THEREFORE BECAUSE OF THIS".

WHAT IS "POST HOC, ERGO PROPTER HOC"?

500

THIS MID-17TH CENTURY CONFLICT, REFERRED TO BY A TERM MEANING A FLOOD OF WATER, SAW THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH FACE INVASION FROM SWEDEN, RUSSIA, AND VARIOUS GERMAN KINGDOMS, AND SUFFER A GREATER PERCENT OF THEIR POPULATION KILLED THAN IN WORLD WAR 2.

WHAT IS "THE DELUGE"?

500

A SONG TO LAY ASPIRATIONS TO REST.

WHAT IS "REQUIEM FOR A DREAM"?
500

IN MATTERS OF STATE SECRETS AND NATIONAL SECURITY, THE METHODS AND TACTICS USED IN ESPIONAGE ARE REFERRED TO WITH THIS GENERIC SOUNDING TERM.

WHAT IS "TRADECRAFT"?

500

THIS FAR EASTERN RUSSIAN PENINSULA EXTENDS SOUTH INTO THE BERING SEA, AND IS KNOWN FOR BEING ONE OF THE MOST VOLCANICALLY ACTIVE REGIONS IN THE WORLD.  

WHAT IS "KAMCHATKA"?