The US in 1964
Potpour-Everything
African Capital Haikus
3 Consecutive Consanants
Also a Candy
Final Jeopardy
100

A Jan. 11 report from Luther Terry in his capacity in this job said (finally), "Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer"

What is the Surgeon General?

100

It's the first month of the calendar year that has no federal holidays

What is March?

100

Time for Special "K" / Its name meant "impala hill" / Uganda love it

What is Kampala?

100

You're not outta your gourd! You're into this gourd that's big on Oct. 31

What is a Pumpkin?

100

Athos, Porthos & Aramise

What is Three Muskateers?

100

A BIT OF BRITAIN:

In disarray, it was sold at auction in 1915 to a local Wiltshire man, who would donate it to the British government 3 years later

What is Stonehenge?

200

At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1964, he became the first Black Best Actor winner

Who is Sidney Poitier?

200

The late Richard Belzer was a cousin of this actor; Belzer appeared in "Night Shift" & he returned the favor & guested on "SVU"

Who is Henry Winkler?

200

Hey, Kenya dig it? / Started as a water hole / 4 million now the

What is Nairobi?

200

The sovereign's seat

What is a throne?

200

It's when you get your peanuts for all your hard work

What is Payday?

200

FIRST NAMES OF SCIENTISTS:

First name of the paleontologist who in 1990 noticed some large vertebrae jutting from an eroding bluff in South Dakota

Who is Sue?

300

On March 27 a 9.2 quake rocked this state's Valdez, forcing the town itself to be moved to the delta of Mineral Creek

What is Alaska?

300

The Hang Nga guest house is in this country

What is Vietnam?

300

Same name of nation / Ah, shake shake shake... shake shake shake... / Say the J not D

What is Djibouti?

300

   Money granted to a student to pursue studies 

What is a Scholarship?

300

An article called the Chicago Bears of 1938 this kind of team since they set "a season's record of 56 fumbles"

What is a Butterfinger Team?

300

ASTRONOMY:

The only dwarf planet located in the inner Solar System, it's named for an ancient deity of planting & harvests


What is Ceres?

400

The first mission of this post-Mercury NASA program launched on April 8, uncrewed; soon, 2 men would fly in each mission

What is Gemini?

400

In 2023 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved this symbol to 90 seconds to midnight due to Russia's war with Ukraine

What is the Doomsday Clock?

400

Western port city / It's named for a president / '90s Civil War

What is Monrovia?

400

Past participle of seek

What is sought?

400

This purrrfect club of Whig leaders in London sounds just like a chocolate wafer bar

What is a Kit-Cat?

400

MYTHOLOGY:

Chrysomallus was the name of the creature that was the source of this sought-after item, vellus aureum in Latin

What is The Golden Fleece? 

500

In a landmark case the Supreme Court ruled that this newspaper had not libeled Alabama city commissioner L.B. Sulliva

What is The New York Times?

500

An ex-contestant apparently did not enjoy becoming "America's Next Top Model", likening it to this college's "prison experiment"

What is Stanford?

500

Off to Botswana! / Game reserve in a city / See the wildebeest

What is Gaborone?

500

Geometry term for triangles that can be exactly superimposed, one on the other

What is Congruent?

500

NASA called the activity in this type of galaxy reminiscent of the end of a pyrotechnics show

   

What is a Starburst Galaxy?

500

US SENATE HISTORY

In 1805, after 4 years presiding over the Senate, he left the chamber, calling it "a sanctuary; a citadel of law, of order"

Who is Aaron Burr?