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Some parliamentary governments vest chief executive power with a person holding this position.
What is Prime Minister?
100
Had this Roman Emperor heeded the warnings on the Ides of March, he perhaps could have avoided death at the hands of the backstabbing Senators.
Who is Julius Caesar?
100
This popular New York Yankee is known for his signature throws to first base, during which he jumps, spins and throws. Many critics, however, say that his flair for the dramatic actually covers up his below average defense.
Who is Derek Jeter?
100
Pilots rely on a multitude of gauges and data for their flight. One gauge, shown here http://bit.ly/MsclcW, allows a pilot to tell how level the plan is to the ground, which is known as this.
What is horizon?
100
St. Louis's most well-known landmark is the Gateway Arch. A federal memorial, the Gateway Arch itself, and its attached subterranean museum, are dedicated to this era of U.S. History.
What is Westward Expansion or manifest destiny?
200
The top timekeepers who maintain the Greenwich Mean Time standard can be found at 0º longitude, also known as this.
What is the Prime Meridian?
200
In 2003, this tormented alternative rock songwriter died by his own hand, by stabbing himself not once, but twice in his own heart.
Who is Elliot Smith?
200
This boxer helped popularize the term "rope-a-dope," in which a boxer might flamboyantly evade an opponent in order to win in a battle of stamina.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
200
Pilots have the ability to control this, the degree to which an airplane is positioned according to its horizontal axis, running from the nose to the tail of the airplane.
What is roll?
200
If you find yourself with no particular place to go, consider going to St. Louis' Blueberry Hill restaurant/night club to hear this St. Louis Native and Rock & Roll legend perform one of his regular monthly concerts.
Who is Chuck Berry?
300
Many frustrated homeowners have burnt their thumbs on a hot summer day while applying pressure to the choke on their lawnmowers, attempting to perform this process.
What is Prime the Pump?
300
After Lady MacBeth challenges her husband's manhood and helps devise a plan for murder, MacBeth fulfills one step of the witches' prophecy by murdering this King of Scottland.
Who is Duncan?
300
This electric NFL defensive back often danced after returning an interception for a touchdown. He even once danced in an MC Hammer music video.
Who is Deion Sanders
300
To correct for wind sheer, pilots have controls which can correct for any disturbances that might make the plane's landing danger. Such controls determine this, a plane's orientation around its vertical axis.
What is yaw.
300
Born to a wealthy family in St. Louis County, this beat generation author of Naked Lunch spent a significant portion of his life living in opium dens and consuming large amounts of heroin, made possible by the financial support of his conservative family.
Who is William S. Burroughs?
400
Before the collapse of the US housing market in 2007, many entrepreneurs tried make a quick profit by buying homes in need of repair, renovating them, and then trying to sell them as if they were this term, used to describe valuable property.
What is prime real estate?
400
In 1995, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder charges following the stabbing deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and this man, a friend of Ms. Brown Simpson.
Who is Ron Goldman?
400
Ironically, this competitive hot dog eating champion doesn't have much time to hot dog while competing; he can eat 68 in 12 minutes.
Who is Joey Chestnut?
400
Flight data is vital to studying airplane crashes and improving safety. Flight data is stored in this, which is designed to be nearly indestructible and recoverable from crash sites.
What is a black box?
400
This author raised in a wealthy suburb of St. Louis wrote one of the past decade's highest selling works of critical literature The Corrections, set mainly in a fictional version of St. Louis.
Who is Jonathan Franzen?
500
In 2002, Nintendo revived the classic video game franchise Metroid with this title, the first to allow the player to look at the game through the heroine Samus' point of view.
What is Metroid Prime
500
In 1999, a crazed intruder stabbed this iconic British rock and roll artist in his home. Though he survived the stabbing, he would later die of another malady of the chest: lung cancer.
Who is George Harrison?
500
This major league baseball team not only hot dogs by untucking their shirts after a victory, but the stadium also lets fans race around the infield every game costumed as sausages.
Who are the Milwaukee Brewers?
500
Arguably the most formidable military aircraft in service, this U.S. stealth bomber, introduced in 1988, features a flying-wing shape and can carry a nuclear payload.
What is the B-2 bomber?
500
St. Louis, located in a slave state, was the legal forum for this slave's lawsuit seeking emancipation for his master. The case went to the Supreme Court and, while the case was ultimately unsuccessful, its outcome increased abolitionist sentiment in the North, an important historic development in antebellum America.
Who is Dred Scott?