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100

This other term for military exercises is also the title of a 1983 film

What is War Games?

100

The origins of this popular Hasbro board game go back to 1904's The Landlord's Game

What is Monopoly?

100

As a grad student, Gordon Gould coined "laser", which stands for light amplification by stimulated emission of this

What is Radiation?

100

For 23 points, it's the day on which the sun crosses the celestial equator

What is Equinox?

100

Teddy Roosevelt & John F. Kennedy

What is Harvard?

200

By definition a contest in which 1 player's $5 gain must mean another player's $5 loss is this type of game

What is Zero-Sum?

200

Collecting coins can be lucrative if you have one from 44 B.C. minted by Marcus Mettius showing this Roman

Who is Julius Caesar?

200

Per the USPS, ZIP (as in ZIP code) stands for this "improvement plan"

What is Zone?

200

Your significant other is your "main" this & that's worth 25 points

What is Squeeze?

200

Emma Watson & John F. Kennedy Jr.--this "colorful" school

What Brown University?

300

Shakespeare used "the game is afoot" but it's more associated with this author who put it in a 1904 story

Who is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?

300

Gardeners know spring is a good time to plant holly bushes & this flower, holly + 4 letters

What is HollyHock?

300

You lie supine for this weightlifting exercise, BP

What is Bench Press?

300

This synonym for a pancake earns you 26 points

What is Flapjack?

300


What is Princeton?

400

Paul Schrader has said this French director's "The Rules of the Game" represents all that film can be

What is Renoir?

400

Try a racquet sport like this one originally called poona in India & taken to the U.K. by the Brits

What is Badminton?

400

A way of accounting for inventory, LIFO stands for this

What is Last In, First Out?

400

It's worth 23, it's from Yiddish meaning "dirt" or "filth" & you've got a little on your shoe

What is Schmutz?

400

Bill & Hillary Clinton for law school, where they first met

What is Yale?

500

This title of Stephen Potter's book on "Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" entered the English language

What is Gamesmanship?

500

This type of jumping is an acronym for the 4 types of fixed structures from which participants leap

What is BASE Jumping?

500

In case of missiles from the Soviet Union, the U.S. & Canada had this, the DEW line for short

What is Distant Early Warning?

500


What is Zymurgy?

500

Dr. Seuss,
Shonda Rhimes &
Mindy Kaling

What is Dartmouth?