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Also a common pool game for children, this Venetian explorer was one of the first Westerners to visit China.

Marco Polo

100

This creature has no bones and eight arms.

Octopus

100

This alliterative character haunted the girls' bathroom at Hogwarts.

Moaning Myrtle

100

An ingredient in cake

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A number

Flour

Four

100

Crimson Tide

Alabama

200

While Columbus is often credited with discovering North America, this Viking Explorer actually landed there about five centuries earlier.

Leif Erikson

200

An animal that is awake at night is said to be this.

Nocturnal

200

In Washington Irving's Classic, this ghost chased Ichabod Crane.

The Headless Horseman

200

A common piece of furniture

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Something that grows on one's head

Chair

Hair

200

Gators

Florida

300

While this explorer is credited with being the first to circumnavigate the globe, he actually died in the Philippines and his men finished the voyage.

Ferdinand Magellan

300

A degree held by someone with a PhD.

Doctorate

300

Ebenezer Scrooge was haunted by this ghost, his former business partner.

Jacob Marley

300

A part of a guitar

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An undercover police operation

String

Sting

300

Volunteers

Tennessee

400

This explorer was the first to reach India by sea, going around the horn of Africa.

Vasco da Gama

400

A name for someone in their eighties.

Octogenarian

400

This title character was visited by his father's ghost, who named Claudius as his murderer.

Hamlet

400

A hermit

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Withdrawing oneself voluntarily

Recluse

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Recuse

400

Sun Devils

Arizona State

500

This British captain is credited with discovering Hawaii.

James Cook

500

To brainwash.

Indoctrinate

500

Said to haunt the tower of London, this second wife of Henry VIII lost her head.

Anne Boleyn

500

A literary term meaning the contrary of what is expressed

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A type of chemical bond

Ironic

Ionic

500

Demon Deacons

Wake Forest