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The longest continually inhabited European-founded city in the United States

St Augustine, Florida

100

Home town of the Zips

Akron

100

George Mallory and Andrew Irvine famously attempted to climb it in 1924; experts disagree to this day as to whether they were successful

Mount Everest

100

The US counterpart to the UK's HM Revenue & Customs

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

100

Ratites and penguins are two groups of birds that share this unusual feature

flightless

200

Found in the core of the Elder Wand

Thestral tail-hair

200

Location of the main campus of the University of Arkansas (go Razorbacks!)

Fayetteville

200

Roald Amundson's expedition was the first to reach the South Pole, but his success was initially overshadowed by the tragic failure of another effort, led by this Brit

Robert Falcon Scott

200

Tax protesters often claim this amendment was improperly adopted

16th

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The poem originating the expression referring to an albatross around one's neck

Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

300

Home country of Jeanne Calment, owner of the longest documented human lifespan (1875 - 1997)

France

300

Barclay, Barnard, and Baylor

Bears

300

Jennifer Lawrence may have been unsuccessful in her audition for the role of Bella Swan, but she found fame as this other YA heroine, also a multi-book and multi-movie franchise.

Katniss Everdine

300

This Chicago gangster, sometimes referred to as "scarface", was sent to prison in 1932 for tax evasion

Al Capone

300

In Greek mythology, his eyes were transferred by Hera to the tail feathers of a peacock

Argus

400

Netherlandish painter and draftsman of the 16th century, considered the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, known for his (frequently large) landscapes and peasant scenes

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

400

This university system encompasses a number of campuses with mascots ranging from Anteaters to Gauchos to Banana Slugs, among others

University of California

400

This eventually-successful politician was plagued by failure, yet kept trying.  He failed to make it to the state legislature (1832), US Congress (1843), US Senate (1854 & 1858), and US Vice President (1856)

Abraham Lincoln

400

This biblical character was, as a dishonest tax collector, wildly unpopular

Zacchaeus

400

Perhaps the most famous red-billed hornbill (thanks in part to Rowan Atkinson and John Oliver)

Zazu

500

Author of the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia

Pliny the Elder

500

The most common nickname, with 118 four-year colleges (when attached adjectives are included, such as Golden)

Eagles

500

The number of attempts a high jumper can make at a particular height

3

500

Common outside the US, this consumption-based tax is known as the VAT

value added tax

500

A group of these occasionally iridescent black birds is called a murmeration

starling