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100
This president was assassinated in Buffalo, NY at the 1901 Pan American Exposition.
Who was William McKinley?
100

This primary color is featured on many of the East Bay officers socks

What is red?

100
Speculatively, it is used to spread the cement of brotherly love and affection.
What is the Trowel?
100
This 2006 movie starring Tom Hanks makes passing reference to Freemasonry.
What is “The DaVinci Code?”
100

This Past Master original planned an exciting career in profession baseball.

Who is David A. Brown?

200
This noble peace prize winner’s domestic policy was called the Square Deal.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
200

Passed from one District Deputy Grand Master to another, this item was lost for a short period of time by then DDGM Douglas Grant.

What is the red gavel?

200
This tool is symbolic of the Enlightenment principle of equality.
What is the Level?
200
This 2004 movie starring Nicholas Cage links the founding fathers, freemasonry, and Templar gold.
What is “National Treasure?”
200

The only Grand Master hailing from St. Paul's Lodge #14

Who is George F. Ward?

300
He proclaimed that the Western Hemisphere was closed to further European colonization.
Who was James Monroe?
300

The only East Bay Lodge to have Supporters featured on their coat of arms

Who is St. John's Lodge #1

300
This tool of the operative stonemasons delivered the final blow to Hiram Abiff. [Daily Double]
What is the Setting Maul?
300
This 1974 adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story starred Sean Connery as a mercenary soldier mistaken for a god by Kafiristan tribesmen after seeing his Masonic medallion.
What is “The Man Who Would Be King?”
300

This Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Air Force General was raised at St. Paul's in 1923

Who is General Lyman L. Lemnitzer?

400
Through negotiations with Great Britain and war with Mexico he acquired the Western portion of the continental United States.
Who was James Knox Polk?
400

This lodge belongs to and has hosted an international gathering with lodges from the United States, Canada, and England to name a few.

What is St. Alban's Lodge #6

400
Speculatively, it is used to divest our hearts and consciences of vices and superfluities.
What is the Common Gavel?
400
Dr. Dealgood, the announcer introducing the fight between Max and Blaster wears a square and compasses image on his shirt front, in this 1985 sequel starring Mel Gibson.
What is “Mad Max Beyond Thunder Dome?”
400

This family name has been represented in the East by 3 members, 2 of which have served twice

Who are the Titus'?

500
Consistently ranked by historians as one of the worst US presidents, his administration was forever tarnished by the Teapot Dome Oil Scandal.
Who was Warren G. Harding?
500

This is the number living Past Grand Masters that hail from an East Bay lodge.

What is 3. (Faria 1, Grant 39, Willi 1)

500
This working tool is mentioned four times in Chapter 7 of the Book of Amos.
What is a plumb line (plumb)?
500
In this 1969 John Wayne western, the character Matty, on viewing her recently deceased father tells the farm hand, "When you get home, you put him in a better coffin and you bury him in a mason’s apron."
What is “True Grit?”
500

After his time in the Navy, he returned to Newport where he took over his family shoe business on Thames Street where it was from 1920 to 2013.

Who is George Koulouvardis