How I Met Your Mother
was a good story;
I can't count the episodes,
and I don't know where I am,
but I learned a lot.
This is just miscellaneous still.
100

Ted gives this colorful instrument to Robin after their first date.

 Blue French horn

100

This is the name of the protagonist in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.

Greg Heffley

100

This single-digit number is one of very few "perfect numbers", meaning that the sum of its divisors add up to itself.

6

100

Sandwiched between a dragon and a cow, I'm supposed to be the golden city (maybe if you squint real hard).

Yreka

100

In German, this common electronic device is called a fernsehen; a literal translation that means it lets you "see remotely".

Television

100

An insect called a cochineal is ground up to create a dye called carmine, but we know it by this color name.

Red

200

This is the total number of times that Marshall is allowed to slap Barney.

5

200

According to Juliet Capulet, one of these flowers going by any other name would smell just as sweet.

A rose

200

Don't tell Gen Alpha, but the Greek Letter  sum  means "sum of" and goes by this name.

Sigma

200

Don't let the giant green woman scare you; I've got some nice buildings, parks, and museums to look at too.

New York City

200

This major pre-American Revolution event in Boston didn't involve tea but did inflame anti-British sentiment in the colonies in the lead-up to the war.

The Boston Massacre

200

Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan said that this legendary guitarist's version of "All Along the Watchtower" is the definitive version of the song.

Jimi Hendrix

300

At one point in the season, Robin reveals that she was a Canadian pop star using this name.

Robin Sparkles

300

In Of Mice and Men, main characters George and Lenny talk about spending time in this Siskiyou County town.

Weed

300

There are 5,280 of these in a mile, thanks to America's refusal to use the metric system.

Feet

300

Any conspiracy theorist can go wild about how I was made, but it was probably just a bunch of bored, strong druids trying to tell time.

Stonehenge

300

An electromagnetic wave's ability to self-propagate allows it to travel pretty much anywhere, including throughout this large, mostly empty expanse.

Space

300

Native peoples are often referred to by this four-syllable term that means they originally inhabited an area or did so before outside colonists arrived.

Indigenous

400

After Lily breaks off her engagement with Marshall, she moves to this city.

San Francisco

400

In The Lord of the Flies, the boys discover one of these and use it as a horn to call to the group.

A conch shell

400

If I divide 400 by 10, add 9, and take the square root of the resulting sum, I get this number.

7

400

You can see a big, majestic mountain right from my outdoor ice rink; perfect for some winter morning hockey.

Mount Shasta

400

Have you ever truly lived if you haven't performed this lift, which requires you to bend at the knees and pull up a barbell without engaging your back muscles?

A deadlift

400

Despite what OutKast says, you don't actually have to do this to a Polaroid picture to make it develop.

Shake it

500

This former Full House actor voiced future Ted and narrated the show.

Bob Saget

500

According to Hamlet, this is the question.

To be, or not to be

500

When transforming geometric shapes, making the shape bigger or smaller by a scale factor is referred to by this term.

Dilation

500

It's not hard to spot my strange name on any Siskiyou map - I mean, can fish even hold utensils?

Forks of Salmon

500

This fancy-sounding French word refers to the "stuff" that accompanies your meal - for a burger, it might be ketchup, pickles, lettuce, and onion.

Accoutrements

500

Astronomers have theorized that there is a shell-like construct called the Oort Cloud that is the source of these long-traveling space objects in our solar system.

Comets