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100

This US city has been called "Little Havana"?

What is Miami?

100

Milburn Stone played this character on "Gunsmoke".

Who is Dr. Galen Adams?

100

A new Pope is announced with this color smoke.

What is white?

100

This fabled bird sprang to new life from the ashes of its nest.

What is the Phoenix?

100

The only day named after a planet.

What is Saturday?

100

These two Monopoly properties complete the dark blue set, the most expensive in the game.

What are Boardwalk and Park Place?

200

Pennsylvania borders this Great Lake.

What is Lake Erie?

200

This singer paid a $240,000 ransom to free his kidnapped son.

Who is Frank Sinatra?

200

Britain, France, the Russian Federation, the United States and this country make up the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.

What is China?

200

This author's novels include "Emma", "Pride and Prejudice", and "Northanger Abbey".

Who is Jane Austen?

200

Important to pilots, international businessmen, and watch enthusiasts, G.M.T. stands for this.

What is Greenwich Mean Time?

200

The height of a tennis net.

What is three feet?

300

This country contains the westernmost point in South America.

What is Peru?

300

This century was the setting for T.V.'s "Star Trek".

What is the 23rd-century?

300

The last czar of Russia.

Who is Nicholas II?

300

This character said, "I've had such a curious dream."

Who is Alice?

300

A dipsomaniac craves this.

What is alcohol?

300

The number of numbered segments on a standard dartboard.

What is twenty?

400

The most popular drink in Greece.

What is Ouzo?

400

This Broadway play propelled Barbara Streisand to fame.

What is  Funny Girl?

400

The title of prosecuting attorney Vincent Bugliosi's book, an account of the Manson murders and trial.

What is Helter Skelter?

400

The newspaper with the motto: "All the news that's fit to print".

What is The New York Times?

400

This term describes a space devoid of matter.

What is a vacuum?

400

This athlete retired with 755 homeruns to his credit.

Who is Hank Aaron?

500

The smallest country in Central America.

What is El Salvador?

500

Birdie went bye-bye because...

He was drafted.

500

The mother tongue of Queen Victoria.

What is German?

500

This Lewis Carroll book introduced Humpty Dumpty to the World.

What is "Through the Looking Glass".

500

The moon has this fraction of Earth's gravity.

What is one-sixth?

500

This board game derives its name from the Persian word for "kings".

What is chess?

(Even the famous end-of-game phrase "checkmate" is a corruption of the Persian phrase shāh māt, which translates to "the king is helpless" or "the king is dead". )

600

The largest train station in the world.

(1979)

What is Grand Central Station?

(Chongqing East Railway Station in China, spanning 1.22 million square meters (roughly 13 million square feet). It is over five times larger than New York's Grand Central Terminal and officially opened in June 2025.)

600

She played Mrs. Partridge on "The Partridge Family".

Who is Shirley Jones?

600

Hitler's Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda.

Who is Joseph Goebbels?

600

The term "30" means this to a newspaper editor.

What is the end (of the story)?

600

These berries give gin its flavor.

What are juniper berries?

600

The site of the 1956 Summer Olympics.

What is Melbourne?

700

This unit of currency will buy you dinner in Iraq, Jordan, Tunisia, and Yugoslavia.


What is the Dinar?

700

Though transitioning to focus on live performances and concerts in 1979, this movie theater has sold the most tickets all-time.

What is Radio City Music Hall?

(300+ million tickets since opening in 1932)

700

These two later presidents were first elected to Congress in 1946.

Who are  John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon?

700

The name of the ship commanded by Captain Hook in J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan.

What is the Jolly Roger?

700

This cluster of stars, known as "The Plow" or "The Wagon", goes by this name in North America.

What is The Big Dipper?

700

Huntsmen traditionally call out this word upon sighting a fox.

What is "Tallyho!"?

800

These two countries share the Khyber Pass.

What are Afghanistan and Pakistan?

(Connecting the Afghan city of Kabul to Peshawar in Pakistan, this 33-mile corridor has historically served as a critical trade route and military gateway.)

800

This comedian emceed the 1955 Academy Awards.

Who is Jerry Lewis?

800

These four letters were placed on the cross on which Christ was crucified.

What are "I.N.R.I."?

800

This author survived two plane crashes, on back to back days.

Who is Ernest Hemingway?

800

A mandrill is a type of...

What is a monkey?

800

V. S. O. P. on a bottle of brandy.

What is "Very Superior Old Pale"?

900

In 1917, this country sold the Virgin Islands to the United States.

What is Denmark?

900

The author of "God Bless America".

Who is Irving Berlin?

900

The only state carried by George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election.

What is Massachusetts?

900

Time Magazine's first Man of the Year, in 1927.

Who is Charles Lindbergh?

900

Charles Goodyear invented this by accident in 1839.

What is vulcanized rubber?

900

It is recommended that you "duck the boom" in this sport.

What is yachting (or sailing)?

1000

This has 1,792 steps.

What is The Eiffel Tower?

The Eiffel Tower is widely believed by many to have 1,792 steps—a popular myth that conveniently aligns with 1792, the year the French First Republic was founded. However, according to the official Eiffel Tower Website, there are actually 1,665 steps from the ground to the very top

1000

This person made the most appearances on Hollywood Squares.

Who is Paul Lynde?

1000

This Sheriff killed Billy the Kid.

Who is (Lincoln County) Sheriff Pat Garrett?

1000

This work begins: "Go placidly amid the noise & haste, & Remember what peace there may be in silence"?

What is Desiderata?

1000

This American is considered the pioneer of modern rocketry.

Who is Robert H. Goddard?

1000

The two Scrabble tiles have eight point values.

What are "J" and "X"?