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100

In 1996 Kent Steffes & Karch Kiraly won the first gold medal ever presented in this type of volleyball.

Beach Volleyball

100

This school's athletic teams are called the Hoosiers.

Indiana

100

Julio isn't just Mr. Iglesias' fist name, it's the Spanish word for this month.

July

100

Experts suggest you begin this game by moving 1 or 2 pawns before bringing knights into play

Chess

100

The platform in this event is 10 meters or 33 feet above the water.

Diving

200

Tom Landry coached this team to 270 wins during his 29-year career.

Dallas Cowboys

200

Land adjoining the Palo Alto stock farm became the campus of this private university in Northern California

Stanford

200

French for "in the fashion", it's a fashionable way to serve pie

A la mode

200

An explorer lends his name to this call & response swimming pool game.

Marco Polo

200

Fittingly, this country was the site of the first modern olympics in 1896.

Greece

300

From 1976 to 1980, this Swede won 5 straight Wimbledon Men's Singles Championships.

Bjorn Borg

300

Encarta says this Massachusetts school has the largest private endowment of any university in the world.

Harvard

300

Said before a toast & after a sneeze, it means health in German

Gesundheit

300

The highest-numbered solid-colored ball in a standard game of pocket billiards.

8

300

In the opening ceremonies of the 1992 Summer Games, one of these athletes ignited the Olympic Flame.

Archer

400

At the 1972 Munich Olympics, he swam in 7 events, including relays, & won all in world record times.

Mark Spitz

400

The fight song of this New Orleans school begins, "Green wave, green wave, hats off to thee"

Tulane

400

It's Italian for a "master" conductor or composer.

Maestro

400

Number of pieces with which each player begins a game of chess.

16

400

The 3 throwing events in the Decathlon.

Javelin, Discus, Shot Put

500

This golfing cup was presented by & named for a British seed merchant & was first awarded in 1927.

Ryder Cup

500

In 1881 the Wharton School of Finance & Commerce was founded at this university.

Pennsylvania

500

The name of this ceremonial form of Japanese suicide means to "cut your belly"

Hara-Kiri or Seppuku

500

The 2 utilities in "Monopoly"

Electric Company & Water Works

500

In 1912 this Native American won the Decathlon & Pentathlon.

Jim Thorpe