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200

This annual speech was delivered by the president on March 7

State of the Union

200

Chronologically, Abraham Lincoln was this number president

16

200

By area, this is the smallest continent on Earth

Australia

200

Beavis, Butthead, and Hank Hill are all characters created by and voiced by this one person

Mike Judge

200

Climbers use this locking metal loop to connect climbing components

Carabiner

400

Taking home seven Oscars, Oppenheimer depicts a secret government operation code-named this

The Manhattan Project

400

While cheetahs take the prize on land at 70+ mph, this is the fastest animal in the air

Peregrine falcon (250+ mph)

400

This is the northernmost national capital city in the world

Reykjavik, Iceland

400

This small-in-stature Lord states that he drinks and he knows things

Tyrion Lannister

400

To Kill a Mockingbird was written by this author

Harper Lee

600

Companies continue to downsize product quantities without decreasing price, a phenomenon known as this

Shrinkflation

600

This mnemonic device is used in trigonometry to help teach the ratios of sides of right triangles

SOHCAHTOA (sine is opposite over hypotenuse, cosine is adjacent over hypotenuse, tangent is opposite over adjacent)

600

South Africa entirely surrounds this landlocked country

Lesotho

600

The New Directions is the choir in this TV series

Glee

600

A highly radioactive mass of corium photographed after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster is known by this nickname

The Elephant's Foot

800

Haiti, site of a current uprising of gang violence and governmental upheaval, shares a border with this Caribbean country

Dominican Republic

800

This Apollo 14 astronaut planted an American flag on the moon

Neil Armstrong

800

The United Nations recognizes this many total countries on Earth

195

800

Cheers, predecessor to Frasier and the career launching pad for Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer and more, took place in this city.

Boston, MA

800

Alexandros of Antioch's statue Venus de Milo is missing these body parts

Arms

1000

Sweden recently joined NATO, an acronym that stands for this

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

1000

Entropy, a universal empirical observation concerning heat and energy interconversions, is the topic of this physics theory

Second law of thermodynamics

1000

At 5,387' deep, this world's deepest lake contains 23% of all fresh surface water on Earth, more than all of North America's Great Lakes combined

Lake Baikal

1000

Gilmore Girl Lane Kim played drums for this band

Hep Alien

1000

Hard-working Hufflepuffs sported this animal on their house crest

Badger