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Fun with Flags
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Longest-ruling French King
Louis XIV
100
Skippy is a brand of this, available in Creamy & Super Chunk
Peanut Butter
100
The Jewish scriptures are traditionally divided into the Prophets, the Writings & this word meaning "Law".
The Torah
100
Dionaea, the genus of this carnivorous plant, is a reference to the Greek goddess Aphrodite, the daughter of Dione
Venus Flytrap
100
The flag of Tunisia depicts these 2 celestial figures associated with Islam
Crescent moon and star
200
Russian Empress who led 14,000 soldiers in overthrowing her husband
Catherine The Great
200
The video game with "Vice City."
Grand Theft Auto (GTA)
200
Gaming sure will go faster with the Fugaku supercomputer & its quadrillions of floating point these, the OPS in Petaflops
Operations per second
200
These are also called jumbo shrimp but have longer legs & narrower abdomens than their shrimpian counterparts
Prawns
200
That's the St. Andrew's Cross in reversed colors on the flag of this Canadian province
Nova Scotia
300
Tradition says this king wrote the books of Ecclesiastes & Proverbs
King Solomon
300
Video game with "Operation Raccoon City" and the Netflix series "Infinite Darkness".
Resident Evil
300
A top predator might perch on this, which is also known as this mathematical term for uppermost vertex of a pyramid or cone.
Apex
300
Professor Sebald Brugmans pioneered methods to stop this, tissue death around a wound, & saved many after the Battle of Waterloo
Necrosis (or gangrene)
300
The flag of this African nation depicts a mokorotlo, a Basotho hat
Lesotho
400
1956's "Let Us Compare Mythologies" was the first book of poems by this man more famous for songs like "Hallelujah"
Leonard Cohen
400
Pay or get paid with this app whose name comes partly from the Latin for "to sell"
Venmo
400
This property says that the order in which you multiply 3 or more numbers doesn't matter; the product will be the same
The Associative Property
400
PCR, short for this, allows endless copying of tiny bits of DNA, helping identify diseases & catch killers
Polymerase chain reaction
400
The flag of Palau seen here uses a similar design as this, but a different color palate than, this country, independent since 1971
🇧🇩
Bangladesh
500
This pair surmised they had traveled 4,162 miles from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean; pretty close, guys--only off by about 40 miles.
Lewis and Clark
500
Nothing to do with a military takeover, this 3-word French phrase is a final blow
Coup de grâce
500
Referring to a type popular in earlier centuries, a peruker was a maker of theseWigs
Wigs
500
The discovery of the receptor for this toxin was announced in fall 2001, around the time it was part of a terrorism scare
Anthrax
500
It's the only U.S. state whose flag has a different design on its reverse; it depicts a beaver
Oregon