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DIFFERS BY A LETTER
BELIEVE IT OR NOT...
7-LETTER ANIMALS
HISTORIC ERAS & AGES
TRIPLE RHYME TIME
100

If you serve ice cream with your pie, you're serving it this 3-word way

What is à la mode

100

Overly proud of one's own appearance & a form of precipitation

What is vain & rain?

100

Octopuses have 3 of these: 2 send blood to the gills, one sends blood to the rest of the body

What are hearts?

100

It's also called a lightning bug

What is a firefly?

100

In a totally metal move, this age took over for bronze in southeastern Europe around 1200 B.C.

What is the Iron Age?

100

The summary of recent events aboard a party boat with alcohol

What is booze cruise news?

200

The French for "bunch" gives us this word for a wine's smell

What is bouquet?

200

To wait patiently & your humble home

What is abode & abide?

200

In 2023 British police foiled a plan by thieves to poach 200,000 Creme Eggs from this chocolatier

What is Cadbury?

200

These large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows

What is a manatee?

200

The Age of this, when humans used their brains to figure things out, is also the title of an anti-religion Thomas Paine work

What is the Age of Reason?

200

An elevation lower than a mountain named after Uma Thurman's revenge film series

What is Kill Bill hill?

300

A recess in a wall, or any perfect job; it comes from a word for "nest"

What is niche?

300

Hereditary &
not brand name

What is genetic & generic?

300

Noodling, a sport involving catching these barehanded, officially became legal in Louisiana in 2022

What is catfish?

300

Every year in the Yukon, 200,000 of these deer embark on the longest land mammal migration on Earth, sometimes up to 1,300 miles

What is a caribou?

300

Britannica says during this mostly 19th century era, "Britain was a powerful nation with a rich culture"; the past tense... ouch

What is the Victorian Age?

300

Perhaps the Compton rapper with a medical nickname will go, or...

What is Dre may stay?

400

The movie "Rocky" had one of these, many shots juxtaposed to form a theme

 What is a montage?

400

Earl or Baron, for example &
to donate 10% to the church

What is title & tithe?

400

A house known as "The One" sold for $126 million (down from $295 mil.) in this area of "lovely atmosphere" next to Beverly Hills

What is Bel Air?

400

These small mongooses found in southern Africa. They are characterized by  their broad heads, large eyes, pointed snout and thin tapering tails

What is a meerkat?

400

No. 2 of the 3 periods of the Mesozoic era, it began about 201.3 million years ago; welcome...! to this

What is the Jurassic Age?

400
An ocean bird descended from royalty, who is caught committing crimes

What is an illegal regal seagull?

500

You can't change things, it's this 2-word situation, "concluded fact" in French

What is a fait accompli?

500

Plenty &
a McIntosh

What is ample & Apple?

500

The Apollo 11 astronauts had to declare Moon rocks to this government service upon returning to Earth

What is U.S. Customs?
500

Also called a rorqual, a type of whale takes this name from its prominent dorsal appendage 

What is a finback?

500

New York City's Frick Collection is a monument to the art collecting of this materialistic era, also a Twain title

What is the Gilded Age?

500

a largely populated town of quick-thinking felines

What is a witty kitty city?