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100

Talk about Go Blue!  Clayton Kershaw pitched well enough for this team in 2014 to win 21 games & the National League MVP award

Dodgers

100

In 1969, 108-year-old Vassar College began admitting these people, "sensitive & humble" ones

men

100

A woman in Canada used an existing R to place "quizzers" on 2 triple word scores to help score 365 points at once in this game

Scrabble

100

"I can't stop the feeling so just dance, dance, dance", instructs this singer

Justin Timberlake

100

Located 12 miles outside of it, Villanova offers a course on the "History of" this Pennsylvania city

Philadelphia

100

Game theorists might call it a "zero-sum game without perfect information"; those playing it to break a tie sometimes call it "Rochambeau"

rock, paper, scissors 

100

"Easy come, easy go, little high, little low", says "Bohemian Rhapsody" by this group

Queen

200

A hitter & hurler, Shohei Ohtani joined this "Bambino" as the only MLB players with 10 homers & 10 wins in a season

Babe Ruth

200

A symbolic starting point for N. California is on Hwy 99 north of Fresno - this 4-letter tree stands just north of a palm tree

pine

200

For me, it's left hand, green, right foot, blue & left hamstring, pulled playing this Hasbro game

Twister
200

Walk the Moon got a hit song title when a woman at a club told the frontman to do this "& dance with me"

shut up

200

Vassar offers "Cold War America", a history course "from 1945 until the fall of" this European landmark "in 1989"

Berlin Wall

200

If your clothing catches fire (though hopefully it won't), this 3-pronged fire safety mantra will remind you what to do

stop, drop & roll

200

This 60's group loved the waves with hits like "Surfer Girl", "Surfin Safari" & "Surfin USA"

Beach Boys

300

With no baserunners at all, a perfect game is this amazing feat, but even better!  MLB has had 317 of these, with just 23 perfectos

a no-hitter

300

This famous landmark in Yellowstone, Wyoming is known for its regular eruptions

Old Faithful

300

Sweden's Mojang Studios is best known for this video game where you can build volcanoes or underground cities

Minecraft

300

"Dance To This" was a summer 2018 collaboration between Troye Sivan & her

Ariana Grande

300

Prior to a couple of mergers, Lennar Homes was known to JVC by this name

Standard Pacific Homes

300

Rice boasts that its "20th Century American Presidents" course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president

Bill Clinton

300

According to the carol, it's what "my true love gave to me" on the third day of Christmas

3 french hens

300

"Valerie" is a soulful tune from this singer who died too young in 2011

Amy Winehouse

400

The best of the best in baseball get the award named for this man who got the nickname "Cyclone", which was then shortened

Cy Young

400

Yankee magazine says this New England state is known for chowder, old money & being the home of TV's Gilmore girls

Connecticut

400

In 2021 a Wisconsin teen pulled 32 of these blocks & placed them back atop a tower of them in one minute without toppling it

Jenga

400

Listen to Madonna!  "Come on", do this, "let your body go with the flow"

vogue

400

These former summer interns are both children of JVC clients

Blake Killian and Beau Pedigo

400

At Brown, the history course "Conspiracy?" includes this 1692 event dramatized by Arthur Miller in "The Crucible"

the Salem Witch Trials

400

If "American Pie" is your karaoke go-to, you know they're "the three men I admire most" who "caught the last train for the coast"

father, son & the holy ghost

400

In a 2018 release, Childish Gambino told us in this song "Don't catch you slippin now, look what I'm whippin now"

This is America

500

This pitcher was quite the aged rookie in 1948 when he joined Cleveland, but helped them win the World Series

Satchel Paige

500

This Tennessee city is famous as one of the birthplaces of the blues & as the home of barbecue spaghetti

Memphis

500

Cricket, 501 & Around the World are games involving tossing these, perhaps in a bar

Darts

500

"When they said come dancing, my sister always did", sang Ray Davies of this band in a tribute to his real sis Rene

The Kinks

500

The 10th employee hired by JVC

Claudio

500

"The Wealth of Nations" & "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" are two texts assigned for a Duke seminar on this economist

Adam Smith

500

These three "unalienable rights" are specifically mentioned in the Declaration of Independence

Life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness

500

A hit from 2012, "I will wait" is by this band who, despite the "Sons" in their name, are unrelated  

Mumford and Sons