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This gemstone is the red variety of corundum.

Ruby

400

This animated sitcom features talking babies, time travel, and the Griffin family.

Family Guy

400

Mouselike boy in an E.B. White story traveling through the heavens as Ursa Minor.

Stuart Little Dipper

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When graduation is close but motivation is gone, students say they have this, with an infectious suffix.

Senioritis

400

The Cuisinart WMR-CAP2 is one of these devices composed of 2 hinged metal griddles that close together to cook batter.

Waffle iron

800

This Barbadian singer, known by one name, has the surname Fenty.

Rihanna

800

This HBO show followed Kendall, Shiv, and Roman fighting for control of their father’s media empire.

Succession

800

Middle Eastern entertainment with rapid gyrations of the hips that's a reality TV show judged by Len Bruno & Carrie Ann.

Belly Dancing With The Stars

800

You’ll need this Latin phrase on your résumé — it literally means “course of life.”

Curriculum Vitae

800

This row of very bright illumination along the front edge of a stage is also a term for the theater as a profession.

Footlights

1200

This 1992 film was the first to be directed by Quentin Tarantino.

Reservoir Dogs

1200

This streaming service started as DVD rentals by mail before pivoting to online content.

Netflix

1200

A landmark Louisiana area featuring Bourbon Street gets a classic burger from McDonald's.

French Quarter Pounder

1200

This was the first college established in the U.S.

Harvard

1200

For 60 years, a red figure & a blue figure have been duking it out in a miniature boxing ring in this action game.

Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots

1600

This weapon from the board game 'Clue'/'Cluedo' is also a Beatles album.

Revolver

1600

“Heisenberg” was the alter ego of this teacher-turned-drug kingpin.

Walter White

1600

Cabinet department established in 2002 that becomes a bedding item carried by a kid for reassurance.

Department of Homeland Security Blanket

1600

Coined by French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, this “E-word” describes the dread of meaningless freedom, a feeling many seniors get when asked “what’s next?”

Existentialism (existential dread).

1600

Chiromancy is another name for this hands-on form of fortune-telling.

Palm reading

2000

This Edgar Allan Poe poem begins, “Once upon a midnight dreary…”

The Raven

2000

This anthology series by Charlie Brooker explores the dark side of technology.

Black Mirror

2000

Laughing Green Giant exclamation to the first president of Vietnam.

Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh

2000

In economics, this concept means resources are limited while wants are infinite.

Scarcity

2000

With songs like "I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today", this spoof of Sesame Street won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical.

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