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200

This Portuguese explorer was said to be the first person to organize the expedition to circumnavigate the globe. He was trying to find India for spices, but ended up dying in an archipelago.  

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

200

Heavenly bodies are the Star, the Sun & this, card XVIII.

What is the Moon?

200

This branch of math uses symbols to represent numbers or variables in arithmetic operations, like 2x + y = 10.

What is algebra?

200

Spiders usually have this many eyes; one for each leg?

What is 8?

200

A cheerful view without a valid basis is seeing life through these glasses.

What is rose-colored glasses?

400

This railroad was more abstract that physical as it allowed hundreds of slaves to escape captivity. Most well-know for one of its conductors: Harriet Tubman.

What is the Underground Railroad?

400

Card XVI, this tall building can signal ruin as a lighting bolt strikes it

What is The Tower?

400

Of the 4 basic math operations, the one that produces a quotient

What is division?

400

"Charlotte's Web" is about a spider who becomes friends with Wilbur, one of these farm animals.

What is a pig?

400

It's a luxurious floor covering or the celebrity arrival part of a televised awards show.

What is a red carpet?

600

This militarily strategy employed by Hitler in WWII nearly won him the war as it was known for its rapid, overwhelming force consisting of armored and mechanized infantry formations with destructive air support to quickly break through enemy lines.

What is blitzkrieg?

600

Card VI, features a pair who stand for attraction, concord, and harmony.

What is the Lovers?

600

It's 5% of 400.

What is 20?

600

These largest spiders are also known as hairy mygalomorphs.

What are tarantulas?

600

This kinda alright crime Netflix comedy starring a wrestler, Wonder Woman, and Deadpool.

What is Red Notice?

800

This 152 ft. copper statue had to travel 3,655 miles, from France to New York, as a gift from the former to commemorate the latter's commitment to independence and freedom.

What is the Statue of Liberty?

800

DA DAILY DOUBLE

What is the Hanged Man?

800

To indicate a factorial for a given integer, you put this punctuation mark after it.

What is an exclamation mark?

800

Scientifically known as Lactrodectus mactans and more popularly known within the MCU pantheon, this "dark" spider can have a deadly bite.

What is a Black Widow?

800

With origins going back to 1901, this Boston sports team was named for its players' choice of stockings.

What is Red Sox?

1000

Our society might've turned out different if this event in the Cold War turned sour, if it wasn't for the diplomatic talks with America and the U.S.S.R over the latter's installment of nuclear armaments in this South American island.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

1000

The suits in the Minor Arcana are Pentacles, Wands, Swords & this.

What are the Cups?

1000

Vector calculus involves 2 or more of these changeable quantities, either dependent or independent.

What are variables?

1000

Little Miss Muffet was a well-known sufferer of this phobia, the technical term for a fear of spiders.

What is arachnophobia? 

1000

The red type of this is less bearlike than the giant one, looking more like a raccoon.

What is a panda?