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200
'"Ribby" refers to this baseball stat'
runs batted in
200
'Archaeologists found the remains of walls near the Euphrates that may have belonged to this famous project'
the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
200
'Nigeria,
Nepal,
Norway'
Nigeria
200
'Charles Darwin once wrote, "The voyage of" this ship "has been by far the most important event in my life"'
the Beagle
200
'This type of photoelectric cell converts sunlight to energy'
solar
400
'(I'm Troy Vincent of the NFL.) Along with 2 safeties, 2 players at this position of mine normally make up the secondary'
cornerbacks
400
'This site has seen more than its share of historic & ceremonial occasions'
the Rose Garden
400
'Spain,
Mexico,
Argentina'
Mexico
400
'Neither this man nor his flagship the Trinidad completed the circumnavigation of the world in the 1520s'
Magellan
400
'This type of light can drill holes in diamonds or carry information over long distances'
laser
600
'"Around the world" is a round of golf with this score, an allusion to a certain novel'
80
600
'Term given the home vegetable gardens planted by patriotic Americans during WWII'
victory gardens
600
'Belgium,
the Netherlands,
Luxembourg'
the Netherlands
600
'The Mary Rose, a warship built for this British king, sank in 1545 & was raised in 1982'
Henry VIII
600
'A bulb gives off light from this which comes from the resistance of the filament to the electric current'
heat
800
'In basketball, this position that can be either "small" or "power" is sometimes called "cornerman"'
forward
800
'Not the Golden Gate, but the gate seen here, gets you into this garden'
the Japanese Tea Garden (in San Francisco)
800
'East Timor,
North Korea,
South Africa'
South Africa
800
'In 1787 the great cabin of this ship once called the Berthia was converted to house pots to hold breadfruit'
the Bounty
800
'Light can behave like a particle or, when it bends, like one of these'
wave
1000
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew comes to a quick stop on the slopes.) A sharp turn perpendicular to the hill is this kind of stop, named for the game played by Brendan Shanahan'
hockey
1000
'It's a garden in which plants are grown for scientific & educational purposes; Brooklyn has one'
a botanical garden
1000
'The Dominican Republic,
Haiti,
the Bahamas'
the Dominican Republic
1000
'3 torpedoes fired from the British cruiser Dorsetshire helped sink this battleship on May 27, 1941'
the Bismarck
1000
'The photon, a light particle, has momentum & energy but no electric charge or this'
mass