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100

The owner of this athletic apparel company was a walk-on for the University of Maryland football team

Under Armour

100

This woman, who discovered radium and polonium, actually won two Nobel Prizes.  The Physics one in 1903 and the Chemistry one in 1937.

Marie Curie

100

This donut chain, founded in North Carolina, is known for their "Hot Now" light in the storefront when donuts have come off the production line

Krispy Kreme

100

Maryland's State Sport

Jousting

100

Mexico City

Mexico

200

This spice company, founded in Baltimore in 1889, manufactures the "goes on everything" Old Bay seasoning

McCormick & Company

200

This English biochemist won two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.  One in 1958 for research into protein structures, particularly insulin, and another in 1980 for his contributions in a sequencing method for DNA

Frederick Sanger

200

This US city has the most doughnut shops per person, with one shop for every 2,480 people (in 2013)

Boston

200

California's State Fabric

Denim

200

Vientiane

Laos

300

Nearly 80% of this Bethesda-based aerospace company's revenue comes from military sales

Lockheed Martin

300

This Pakistani woman, who fights for the right of all children to have education, became the youngest woman to win a Nobel Prize when she won the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17

Malala Yousafzai

300

This US president once said "Ich bin ein Berliner" in a speech to protest Soviet communism during the Cold War. Playfully, this has been translated to "I am a jelly doughnut".

John F Kennedy

300

West Virginia's State Rock

Coal

300

Tallinn

Estonia

400

This Bethesda-based hotel chain is the largest in the world, if you count the number of available hotel rooms

Marriott International

400

This American man, whose work on game theory earned him a share of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics, was played by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind.

John Nash Jr
400

This actress ate, amongst other things, 20 donuts a day in order to gain weight to reprise her role in "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason".

Renée Zellweger

400

Wyoming's State Dinosaur

Triceratops

400

Port Moresby

Papua New Guinea

500

This chain of convenience stores (and sometimes gas stations) opened their first store in Baltimore in 1959 and has more than 200 stores in the Mid-Atlantic area.  Their chicken box is also pretty good.

Royal Farms

500

This well-known folk singer-songwriter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

Bob Dylan

500

This Portland, OR-based donut shop, known for their wild flavors, once even offered NyQuil- and Pepto Bismol-coated doughnut

Voodoo Doughnut

500

Oklahoma's State Vegetable

Watermelon

500

Windhoek

Namibia