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I'll Be Yours if You'll Be Mine
200
Referring to a false promise, "the cake is a lie" became a famous meme that sprang from this valve game
What is Portal?
200
In true 2004-meme style, you could celebrate national this day with a baseball bat on April 2
What is peanut butter and jelly?
200
This stuff, crucial to the "Star Trek" episode "The Alternative Factor", consists of antiparticles like antiprotons
What is antimatter?
200
This meal is found after Irish & English in the names of teas
What is breakfast?
200
This country star has a "wealthy" last name but an endearingly frugal definition of paradise– sharing coffee with his wife June in the morning
Who is Johnny Cash?
400
It was joystick to the world in 1977 when this company released its 2600 system
What is Atari?
400
Get out your creminis, oysters, and buttons--October 15 is national this day
What are mushrooms?
400
Add this word to "electro" to get the adjective for electrical phenomena produced by charges at rest
What is electrostatic?
400
The name of this Indian tea made with milk & spices like cinnamon & cardamom is monosyllabic
What is chai?
400
He referred to Edith, his wife of 55 years, as his Luthien, a beautiful princess from Middle-Earth
Who is Tolkien?
600
Battle Royale and Plunder are game modes in this series' Warzone
What is Call of Duty?
600
You'd better be sure to make a big bowl of this on January 19th– it's movie night!
What is popcorn?
600
This particle in an atom's nucleus was discovered free of charge in 1932
What is a neutron?
600
This herbal tea is made with a daisylike flower; Peter Rabbit was put to bed with some
What is chamomile?
600
Jean-Paul Sartre to his lover, this French existentialist: "Tonight I love you on a spring evening. Tonight I love you with the window open. You are mine, and things are mine, and my love alters the things around me, and the things around me alter my love."
Who is Simone de Beauvoir?
800
Slaughtering demons in outer space was the goal when this "fateful" 1st-person shooter came out in 1993; by 2020, it had become "eternal"
What is Doom?
800
If you go to a Chinese restaurant on July 20, you might be "lucky" to receive these with your bill
What are fortune cookies?
800
Grouped in pairs, these fundamental particles of atomic nuclei come in 6 "flavors" or types
What are quarks?
800
Earl Grey tea gets its flavor from this citrus fruit, sort of an acidic orange
What is bergamot?
800
Diego Rivera proclaimed July 13, 1954 as the most tragic day of his life– after marrying, divorcing, and remarrying this famed Mexican painter, he had lost his beloved wife forever
Who is Frida Kahlo?
1000
Deathwing the Dragon caused a "cataclysm" on Azeroth in a 2010 expansion of this massive game
What is World of Warcraft?
1000
May 28th is National Brisket Day; the day after it is the national day of this rhyming dessert
What is a biscuit?
1000
In the equation above, if m is mass, omega is angular velocity, and v is tangential velocity, you would be solving for this force
What is the Coriolis force?
1000
This strong tea is named for a place in the foothills of the Himalayas whose name means "land of the thunderbolt"
What is Darjeeling?
1000
This famous couple sang their first hit together in 1965– the husband wanted to launch his wife as a solo artist; the wife wanted her husband to sing beside her to ease her stage fright
Who are Sonny and Cher?