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VITAMINS & MINERALS
HORSE, HOG, OR DOG
RIGHT "U-R"
Final Jeopardy
200

An anonymous bidder paid over $1.6 million in 2013 for a violin believed to have been played on this doomed ship

the Titanic

200

Wow, she went there: actress Jennette McCurdy holds an urn on the cover of her 2022 bestseller "I'm Glad My Mom" did this

Died

200

Un-poke that straw from your orange: turns out this vitamin won't actually prevent colds, though it may shorten them

vitamin C

200

The Canadian pacer
&
the Arabian

horse

200

A purveyor of cowboy equipment, Big Bend Saddlery in Alpine, TX offers many varieties of this cowboy boot accessory

spur

200

UNIQUE BUILDINGS

Despite 17.5 miles of hallways, you can walk anywhere in this Virginia building within about five minutes, due to its concentric layout

400

An Illinois auction house put this "Star Wars" character's trusty blaster on the block in 2022 & it fetched just over a cool mil

Han Solo

400

A 2021 book, "Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli" is subtitled "The Epic Story of the Making of" this film

The Godfather

400

Potassium & sodium are examples of these charged minerals, which can sometimes be replenished via Gatorade

electrolytes

400

The Irish draught
&
the Lipizzaner

horse

400

It's the last name of the rapper who released the 1991 album "2Pacalypse Now"

Shakur

400

Despite 17.5 miles of hallways, you can walk anywhere in this Virginia building within about five minutes, due to its concentric layout

the Pentagon

600

A 2014 Waylon Jennings estate auction included a pair of braids that once belonged to this outlaw country legend

Willie Nelson

600

The New York Times dubbed him "Ballet's Colossus" in its review of "Mr. B", a 2022 biography of this choreographer

George Balanchine

600

Not a fan of beef liver? You're in luck: you can get a dose of this "sunshine vitamin" simply by walking outside

vitamin D

600

The mulefoot
&
the Hampshire

hog

600

In the 2005 animated film "Madagascar", King Julien XIII is this type of tree-dwelling primate

lemur

800

Sales topped a record $1.5 billion in 2022 when the gavel dropped on art owned by Paul Allen, the late co-founder of this tech giant

Microsoft

800

It's the year in the title of a 2021 bestseller, when captive Africans arrived in America a year before the Mayflower did

1619

800

The unsung hero of bone health, this vitamin directs calcium to your bones & keeps it there; isn't that special?

vitamin K

800

The Shiba Inu
&
the saluki

dog

800

Before driving teens to the prom, this professional was originally a person who stoked a steam engine to keep it running

chauffeur

1000

Auctioned for $15.3 million in 2022, the painting "The Sugar Shack" appears in the credits of this '70s sitcom starring Jimmie Walker

Good Times

1000

At one point in 2022, six of her books were in the top ten on the New York Times' paperback fiction bestseller list

Colleen Hoover

1000

Expectant moms know it's the other name for vitamin B9, a key ingredient in prenatal vitamins

folic acid

1000

The large black
&
the large white

hog

1000

The New York Times called it a "sport in which daredevils race over rooftops, flip over ledges and climb walls without assistance"


parkour