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Surely this rings a bell: the name of this physiologist who studied the secretory activity of digestion from 1890 to 1900

Ivan Pavlov

100

Aptly describing what's on it, this 3-word nickname is used for the U.S. national flag

Stars and Stripes

100

Jesus let his disciples pick grain on this day of rest & said it "was made for man, and not man for" it

Sabbath

100

Is the birthplace of Western civilization

Europe

100

From 1917 to 1991 a federation of Russia & other Communist republics was known by this collective name

USSR or Soviet Union

200

This Austrian monk found pairs of genes separate in a random fashion when a plant's gametes form

Mendel

200

Dating back to the War of 1812, this symbol is usually depicted as a bearded man wearing red, white & blue

Uncle Sam

200

With the help of the angel Gabriel, Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, had his first visions in a cave near this city

Mecca

200

Is home to the country that produces the most coffee

South America

200

Nikita Khrushchev was premier during the 1962 crisis over missiles in this country very near the United States

Cuba

300

This Swede's original scale had water's boiling point at 0 degrees & its freezing point at 100

Celsius

300

All 4 verses of "The Star-Spangled Banner" end with these 4 words

"home of the brave"

300

From the Greek for "many gods", it's the belief in multiple divine beings as opposed to only one

Polytheism 

300

Is the birthplace of most of the world's major religions

Asia

300

Crowned in 1896, Russian ruler Nicholas II was the last monarch to hold this imperial 4-letter title

Czar

400

This giant of modern physics was diagnosed with ALS as a graduate student at Cambridge

Hawking

400

Following the death of George Washington a few days before, it was sounded on December 18, 1799

Liberty Bell

400

The Sunday after Pentecost is the feast of this, also called the Godhead

the Holy Trinity

400

Is where you'd find the Adelie Coast

Antarctica 

400

In the 13- & 1400s the fur trade helped this city beat out Novgorod to become the most important in Russia

Moscow

500

This Rome-born physicist designed the first nuclear reactor

Fermi

500

Of the genus Haliaeetus, it represents strength & courage

Bald Eagle

500

A guji is a high priest of a large shrine in this religion of Japan

Shinto

500

Is the second-largest in area & population

Africa

500

In the 1980s this feared 3-letter spy agency employed Vladimir Putin

KGB