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100

Color of a lucky "letter day"

   


What is red?

100

A typical snowflake has this many sides

   


What is 6?

100

Tourists know this Catholic mission as Davy Crockett's last stand

   


What is the Alamo?

100

It's the study of weather, not meteors

   


What is meteorology?

100

NBC sci-fi series about alien lizards invading Earth

   


What is V?

200

Red, blue & yellow pigments

   


What are the primary colors?

200

He originated "The Origin of Species"

   


Who is Charles Darwin?

200

A thrilling destination for tight-rope walkers & honeymooners

   



What is Niagara Falls?

200

Term for frozen dew

   


What is frost?

200

He's the heavyweight of the A-Team

   


Who is Mr. T?

300

French for "Turkish stone", this gem came to name the color it represents

   


What is turquoise?

300

Singular form of the word "bacteria"

   


What is bacterium?

300

Since '27, stars have made good impressions at this Hollywood site

   


What is Mann's Chinese Theatre?

300

Mt. Waialeale in Hawaii gets the most, while Calama, Chile, usually gets none

   


What is rain?

300

Letter reversed in the name of what a giraffe calls "The World's Biggest Toystore"

   


What is R?

400

Binney & Smith makes them in 64 colors

   


What are (Crayola) crayons?

400

You might have to put F. Lee Bailey on one to admit he had a show about one

   


What is a lie detector?

400

Seaside resort that has a monopoly on East Coast gambling

   


Atlantic City, New Jersey

400

Region near Equator that took the wind out of Sinbad's sails

   


What are the doldrums?

400

In music, the seventh tone in the diatonic scale of C

   


What is B (or ti)?

500

It was said rajahs gave their rivals these animals to create financial burden

   


What are white elephants?

500

Latin for a botanical garden where trees & shrubs are grown

   

What is an arboretum?

500

Both Ferde Grofe' & the Colorado River dug this national park

   


What is the Grand Canyon?

500

This Italian's invention of the wind vane about 1500 changed the direction of forecasting

   


Who is Leonardo da Vinci?

500

1930 film where Peter Lorre plays a child murderer

   


What is M?