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100

In Skamania County, Washington, harming this legendary creature is prohibited under local law.

What is Bigfoot/Sasquatch?

100

Which actors play Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander?

Who are Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams?

100

This major film studio is the only traditional Hollywood studio still located within Los Angeles city limits.

What is Paramount Pictures Studios?

100

This tea is oxidized the most among common tea varieties.

What is black tea?

100

In a famous lawsuit, a customer claimed this restaurant’s “footlong” sandwich measured only 11 inches.

What is Subway?

200

In this state, it is illegal to wake a sleeping bear for a photo.

What is Alaska? 

200

Ilya Rozanov is famously from this city.

What is Moscow?

200

This area beneath a California city contains miles of tunnels once used for Prohibition-era bootlegging and prisoner transport.

What is the LA Underground Tunnel System?

200

This 19th-century conflict was partly fueled by British trade imbalances in tea with China.

What is the Opium Wars?

200

This Chicago gangster was ultimately convicted of tax evasion rather than violent crimes.

Who is Al Capone?

300

In this state, it’s illegal to send pizza to someone else’s house who didn’t order it.

What is Louisiana? 

300

The fictional rivalry centers on these two hockey teams.

What are the Montreal Metros and Boston Raiders?

300

This California university transmitted the first ARPANET message in 1969, a precursor to the internet.

What is UCLA? 

300

Earl Grey tea is flavored using oil from this citrus fruit.

What is bergamot orange?

300

In 1692, these infamous colonial proceedings took place during a period of mass hysteria in Massachusetts.

What are the Salem witch trials?

400

In this U.S. city, you must have a permit to wear shoes with heels that are over two inches high and less than one square inch thick.

What is Carmel-by-the-Sea, California?

400

These are the names Shane and Ilya save each other under in their phones.

What are Lily and Jane? 

400

Approximately this many stars are on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

What are 2,845 stars?

400

This herbal tea is made from a South African plant and is naturally caffeine-free.

What is rooibos?

400

This fast-food chain was famously sued by an elderly woman over extremely hot coffee in the 1990s.

What is McDonald's?

500

In this state, an unmarried woman could not parachute or skydive on a Sunday, or else she would be fined or arrested.

What is Florida? 

500

This is the location of the infamous cottage in the show. 

What is Lanaudière, Quebec (in the show)? or What is Ontario, Canada (IRL)?

500

These two extreme California locations represent the highest point in the contiguous U.S. and the lowest point in North America.

What are Mount Whitney and Death Valley?

500

This is the approximate cost per kilogram of Da Hong Pao (Big Red Robe), the world’s most expensive tea harvested from ancient mother trees in China’s Wuyi Mountains.

What is over $1.4 million per kilogram?

500

This “Tiger King” star was convicted in a murder-for-hire plot against Carole Baskin.

Who is Joe Exotic?