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Pharaohs
400

This character voiced by Boris Karloff ruined Christmas.

What is The Grinch?

400

Approved 2020 names for these in the Eastern North Pacific include Fausto, Yolanda, and Zeke

What are Hurricanes?

400

Each year US fossil fuels emit around 5 billion metric tons of this gas

What is CO2?

400

Second year student in an American high school or college

What is a S-O-P-H-O-M-O-R-E?

400
The face of this statue of Giza is thought to represent Khafre, builder of one of the Great Pyramids at Giza

What is The Sphinx?

800

This kitchen measurement should come out to about 1/16 of a teaspoon

What is a Pinch?

800

The results are in for the 2019 NCAA men's basketball championship: Texas Tech lost in overtime to this school's Cavaliers

What is Virginia?

800

Thomas Jefferson's draft of this document dropped language calling slavery an "execrable commerce."

What is The Declaration of Independence?

800

This small Hawaiian guitar was derived from a Portuguese Instrument

What is a U-K-U-L-E-L-E?

800

Double Jeopardy: Take Out Your Boards

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built this year (BC/AD)

What is 2560 BC?

1200

Pop-up scares and punches to the face will cause this bodily response.

What is Flinch?

1200

Double Jeopardy: Take Out Your Boards!

In 2017, this percent of US High School students experienced bullying by peers while on school property

What is 19%?

1200

According to the Census Bureau, 35% of US adults over 25 have this college degree or higher

What is a Bachelor's degree?

1200

Shared last name of leaders of India assassinated in 1948 and 1984

What is G-A-N-D-H-I?

1200

The word pharaoh originally referred to a palace, but in the 18th one of THIS, the world began to refer to the kings themselves

What is a Dynasty?

1600

In sports, it will mean to take the win; It general, it means to grapple at close quarters

What is Clinch?

1600

Double Jeopardy: Take Out Your Boards

Both Male & FEMALE Americans will celebrate August 2020 100th anniversary of this amendment to the Constitution 

What is the 19th?

1600

Double Jeopardy: Take Out Your Boards

About this many acres of pizza is sold every day in the US

What is 100 Acres?

1600

It's the continent that surrounds the South Pole

What is A-N-T-A-R-C-T-I-C-A?

1600

Thutmose I was the first pharaoh to put his tomb into this "royal" resting place near Thebes

What is the Valley of the Kings?

2000

The thick fur of this rodent helps it survive the cold temperatures that occur way up in the Andes Mountains

What is a Chinchilla?

2000

In 1950, the US manufactured more than 75% of the world's these; In 2018, 12%

What are Cars?

2000

A Census Bureau map shows that, from 1930 to 2000, the population density of this county in Nevada increase by 5000%

What is Clark County?

2000

This Mexican meal is a rolled tortilla with a filling typically of meat and served with chili sauce 

What is an Enchilada?

2000

Near Lake Nasser, is the "Great Temple," constructed by this pharaoh who reigned for 66 years. He even earned the epithet "the great."

Who is Ramses ( II )?