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100

Which button-mashing sensation turned “Hadouken” into a household word in 1991?

Street Fighter II

100

Glitzy shops like Bulgari, Diane von Furstenberg, and Longchamp line what posh shopping street in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood?

Newbury Street

100

Typically only known by his title and last name, what famous cereal mascot technically has Horatio Magellan as his first and middle names?

Cap'n Crunch

100

"I was the only one ... so I ... What four-letter word can fill both blanks in this sentence, first to mean remaining, then to indicate leaving?

Left

100

The first Android-powered device from Samsung Mobile also became the first in a long-running product line for the company. What was the name of this device?

Samsung Galaxy

200

What video game bounced its way into history as the first hit arcade game in 1972?

Pong

200

A landmark on N Square in Boston is the colonial home of what Revolutionary American hero? He is known to have said “One if by land, two if by sea.”

Paul Revere House

200

What American fast casual restaurant, formerly known as Boston Chicken, was founded in Newton, MA in 1984? While the company headquarters have since moved to Colorado, the chain sticks to its proud Boston namesake roots.

Boston Market

200

It gets its name from the Persian word for "bread." It tastes good no matter how you eat it. What is the tandoor-baked flatbread with a palindrome name?

Naan

200

With multiple of them, perhaps you could make your own version of the 13th highest-selling video game of all time. The integrated circuit used to authenticate the subscriber and ensure accurate billing in cell phones is known as what sort of card?

SIM

300

Which neon-lit arcade game based on a movie let you ride light cycles and battle inside a computer world?

Tron

300

Ruggles, Stony Brook, Assembly, and Chinatown are all stops on which of Boston's MBTA train routes?

Orange Line

300

What casual steakhouse chain has its corporate headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, despite having the Lone Star State in its name?

Texas Roadhouse

300

"Respect" is an Aretha Franklin biopic starring Jennifer Hudson, but "respect" also anagrams to what other film title, the 2015 installment in the James Bond series?

Spectre

300

What does SMS stand for in the context of cellular communications?

Short Message Service

400

Which boxing game had you duck, dodge, and uppercut your way through quirky opponents like King Hippo?

Punch-Out!!

400

Former President George H.W. Bush was born in what affluent Boston suburb in 1924?

Milton

400

Rice-A-Roni, Cap'n Crunch, and Life cereals are all food brands that PepsiCo acquired as part of their 2001 purchase of what company?

Quaker Oats Company

400

There is a five-letter word. You remove the first letter and it forms a four-letter word. You then remove the first letter of that word to form a three-letter word. If the three-letter word, four-letter word and five-letter word all mean the same thing, what was the original five-letter word?

Alone

400

What brand released the world's first commercially available cellular phone?

Motorola

500

Which arcade hit introduced the jumping plumber who'd go on to become Nintendo’s MVP?

Donkey Kong

500

What critically-acclaimed alternative rock band was founded in Boston in 1986, featured bassist Kim Deal, and disbanded acrimoniously in 1993?

The Pixies

500

The first mass consumer product that offered Wi-Fi connectivity was branded as AirPort because the product was produced by Apple. What was this series of laptops that was first released in 1999?

iBook

500

Here’s one for linguists. In what language is the following phrase written in: “Sdrawkcab sti tub, hsilgne si siht”

 English, Just written backwards. 

500

What was the first iPhone model to feature a (now ubiquitous) front-facing camera?

iPhone 4