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100

This carnivorous plant is known for eating winged insects and bugs

What is a Venus flytrap?

100

This actress was only 19 when she was cast as the female lead, Princess Leia

Who is Carrie Fisher?

100

This federal holiday is observed on the last Monday of the month

What is Memorial Day?

100

She was an American actress and singer whose career spanned four decades, with starring roles in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Easter Parade (1948), and A Star is Born (1954), and she was the mother of Liza Minnelli.

Who was Judy Garland?

100

This is widely known as "Sin City".

What is Las Vegas?

200

This is the main purpose of a flower's fragrance

What is attracting pollinators?

200

While Darth Vader was performed by 6' 6" strongman and bodybuilder, David Prowse, his voice was dubbed by this actor and Hudson Valley resident

Who is James Earl Jones?

200

This celebration is held in the United States on the second Sunday of May

What is Mother's Day?

200

Mother of Kate Hudson, she rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1968–1970).  She has been in many movies including Private Benjamin (1980), Swing Shift (1984), and The First Wives Club (1996).

Who is Goldie Hawn?

200

This city is the "City of Brotherly Love".

What is Philadelphia?

300

In the movie The Wizard of Oz, these flowers were responsible for putting Dorothy, Toto, and the Cowardly Lion to sleep before they reached Oz.

What are poppies?

300
This is the name of Han Solo's hairy copilot

What is Chewbacca?

300

This is known as the "City of Light".

What is Paris?

(due to its leading role during the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment and its early adoption of gas street lighting in the 1820s.)

400
Albany, New York has  festival centered around this flower every spring

What are tulips?

400

This is the term for the crystal powered swords that Luke Skywalker and other jedi use to fight

What are lightsabers?

400

This day celebrates Mexico's victory over the Second French Empire at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. 

What is Cinco de Mayo?

400

This socialite, artist, author, and fashion designer was mother to CNN anchor Anderson Cooper.

Who was Gloria Vanderbilt?

400

This city is most commonly recognized as "Steel City".

What is Pittsburgh?

500

Ikebana is a traditional art of arranging flowers in this country

What is Japan?

500

This is the episode number of the very first Star Wars film

What is Episode 4(A New hope)?

500

Europeans choose to celebrate this holiday in May, in contrast to Americans who celebrate it in September

What is Labour Day?

500

Mamie Gummer's mom is an alumna of Vassar College, who is the most Academy Award-nominated performer in history, with 21 in total, winning three, for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Sophie's Choice (1982), and The Iron Lady (2011). 

Who is Meryl Streep?

500

This is the "Eternal City".

What is Rome?