The "Natural" Order of All Things
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200

It's the set of a certain type of thing we run through in sequence while ensuring everyone is accounted for, for instance

What are the natural numbers?

200

Before breaking into American game show fame, Alex Trebek hailed from the university representing this capital

What is Ottawa?

200

A fluffy nursery rhyme creature and a source of an entity often used figuratively to describe knowledge

What are lamb and lamp?

400

It's easy to forget that Americans all have a lock on these privileges, which include life, liberty, and property

What are natural rights?

400

It's the high city where Fosbury revolutionized the high jump and a legendary 100-meter dash barrier was broken in a rather controversial Olympics

What is Mexico City?

400

Political center of a county and what some groups religiously avoid eating due to having a light diet

What are seat and meat?

600

It's used to neutralize the effects of key signatures

What is a natural sign?

600

A major Bay Area city with a downtown airport has a sister city that is the capital of this country

What is Costa Rica?

600

Word used to describe an artistic athlete's composure and a collective term for a producer

What are form and firm?

800
For 2, it's around 0.693; for one of the vowels, it's 1

What is the natural logarithm?

800

Its name contains the defining characteristic of its country, a result of the heated religious debate that led to a certain historical South Asian split-up

What is Islamabad?

800

An animal, or the best at something and a pit around a royal abode

What are goat and moat?

1000
The "A"-grade one of these is free of accidental tarnishes

What is a natural minor scale?

1000

Gordon Ramsay would like it if you knew this capital of an island nation off the coast of a country-continent

What is Wellington?

1000

Independent feudal Japanese warrior and the forger of the Burghers of Calais

What are ronin and Rodin?