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Below sea level & with high salinity, it's found between Jordan & Israel

What is the dead sea?

400

Tête-bêche, a term for a pair of items identical but with one upside down, is most commonly used of these collectibles

What is a Stamp?
400

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Marcus Garvey is considered a prophet of this religion that began in Jamaica

What is Rastafarianism?

400

This East Coast rapper released Reasonable Doubt in 1996.

Who is Jay-Z?

400

He was the first man to walk on the moon in 1969.

Who is Neil Armstrong?

800

The 67-foot-high Peace Arch on the border of Canada & the U.S. overlooks Blaine, Washington & Surrey in this province

What is British Columbia?

800

Etiolated means pale & stunted & refers botanically to a plant that develops in low light & makes less of this compound

What is Chlorophyll?

800

In 2025 Japan ordered the disbandment of this controversial church founded by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon

What is the Unification Church?

800

This Houston duo popularized “chopped and screwed” music and includes members Bun B and Pimp C.

Who is UGK?

800

This woman became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.

Who is Margaret Thatcher

1200

The thick marshland & jungle of the Darién Gap, which separates North & South America, is on the border between these 2 nations

What is Panama and Columbia?

1200

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Meaning "to predict", this verb is from Latin & we prophesy you'll know the word is 5 letters longer than prophesy

What is prognosticate?

1200

Jews who descend from those expelled from Spain & Portugal are called this, from the Hebrew word for Spain

What is Sephardi?

1200

Born Nasir Jones, he dropped his debut album Illmatic in 1994.

Who is Nas?

1200

This artist painted the first known self-portrait in European art history around 1430.

Who is Jan van Eyck?

1600

This Egyptian port city that lends its name to an important conduit lies in Africa right on the edge of Asia

What is Suez?

1600

Plausible but misleading argument is called this, from thinkers whom Plato depicted as devious word-jugglers

What is sophistry?

1600

In the steps to sainthood, before beatification a person is declared this, meaning they lived a heroically virtuous life

What is venerable?

1600

This producer-rapper founded the label Aftermath Entertainment and produced The Chronic for N.W.A.

Who mis Dr. Dre?

1600

This 1928 discovery by Alexander Fleming marked the first widely used antibiotic.

What is Penicillin?

2000

With about 2,500 staff members, CERN's particle physics research lab straddles parts of these 2 nations

What is Switzerland and France?

2000

Northerners supporting & profiting from Reconstruction were carpetbaggers; pro-Reconstruction Southerners, thes

What are scalawags?

2000

It's the 5-letter word for the ritual prayer said 5 times daily as one of the 5 pillars of Islam

What is Salah?

2000

This East Coast duo who was actually 1 person released the critically acclaimed Operation: Doomsday in 1999 under masked personas.

Who is MF Doom

2000

He was the first US President to appear on TV

WHo is FDR?