100 β Before becoming a country, the U.S. had to formally separate from Britain through this written act
π Answer: Declaration of Independence
100 β This group sang about sunshine on a cloudy day in a famous love song
π Answer: The Temptations
100 β The more of it you remove, the larger it becomes
π Answer: A hole
100 β A giant creature falls from a famous New York building at the end of this film
π Answer: King Kong
100 β Remove the first letter from a word meaning happiness, and youβre left with a unit of distance
π Answer: Smile β Mile
200 β This early 19th-century deal instantly expanded U.S. land westward without war
π Answer: Louisiana Purchase
200 β This blind musician helped define soul music with early hits like βWhatβd I Sayβ
π Answer: Ray Charles
200 β Every standard deck has 13 of these, but none are alive
π Answer: Hearts (cards)
200 β A summer romance leads to the line about not putting someone βin a cornerβ
π Answer: Dirty Dancing
200 β A word that sounds the same even after removing four of its five letters
π Answer: Queue
300 β A single assassination in Europe triggered this global conflict in the 1910s
π Answer: World War I
300 β This New York singer-songwriter built a career around storytelling songs like one about a bar piano player
π Answer: Billy Joel
300 β It can be long or short, wide or narrow, but it always has a neck and no head
π Answer: A bottle
300 β A World War II mission begins with one of the most intense beach landings ever filmed
π Answer: Saving Private Ryan
300 β A word that secretly contains three double letters in a row
π Answer: Bookkeeper
400 β This president became the only one to leave office early due to a political scandal
π Answer: Richard Nixon
400 β This female rock singer became the voice behind Fleetwood Macβs biggest hits
π Answer: Stevie Nicks
400 β Itβs attached to you, but the βbottomβ is actually at the top
π Answer: Your legs
400 β A former boxer reflects on missed greatness with the line βI coulda been a contenderβ
π Answer: On the Waterfront
400 β A word where each letter removal still leaves a real word, all the way down to one letter
π Answer: Start
500 β This agreement after WWI punished Germany and reshaped Europe
π Answer: Treaty of Versailles
500 β This jazz musicianβs nickname was a type of bird, and he changed saxophone forever
π Answer: Charlie Parker
500 β It never speaks first, but always answers when you do
π Answer: An echo
500 β A quiet gunslinger defends a farming family, then disappears into legend
π Answer: Shane
500 β
A five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to itβbut only if you understand what the word means
π Answer: Short