CHESS IT OUT
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IT BORDERS BOTH
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ACTUALLY, MONDAYS ARE PRETTY COOL
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It's the only chess piece that can hop over an opposing piece when it moves

Knight

100

Erupting with flavor, it's the yummy dessert seen named for its center

a lava cake


100

Ecuador and Bolivia

Peru

100

Asked about the name of this device, inventor Doug Engelbart said, "It just looked like one with its tail"

Computer mouse

100

This website for sharing videos was registered on Monday, February 14, 2005; Keyboard Cat would debut later

Youtube

200

The "Sicilian" one starts with a move by black on the queen's half of the board

defense

200

Bad when it's caused by heavy rain, good when it's a dessert cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur & Irish cream

a mudslide

200

Luxembourg and Andorra

France

200

 Brothers John & Thomas Knoll created this image-editing program in the '80s & sold it to Adobe in 1995

Photoshop


200

Shoppers in Rogers, Arkansas had a new option on July 2, 1962 as the first of these stores opened

Walmart

300

It's the 8-letter term for the direction in which white has chosen to castle

kingside

300

These cakes were immortalized by Proust in his "Remembrance of Things Past"

madeleines

300

Kenya and Eritrea

Ethiopia

300

The version control system Git was created as a free version of which source-control management system?

BitKeeper

300

Pairing a legume & a grain, this New Orleans specialty is traditionally served on Mondays

red beans and rice

400

Bring your queen out fast against an inexperienced player & you can have this victory after just 2 moves

a fool's mate

400

Made with egg whites & coconut but needing no flour, these cookies are traditional during the Jewish Passover

macaroons

400

Norway and Mongolia

Russia

400

The name of this tech company is a shortening of the metropolis where it was founded by 2 Stanford computer scientists in 1984

Cisco Systems

400

On a Monday in 1936, Jesse Owens had a good day in this European city

Berlin

500

Even chess masters often begin a game with this familiar opening, named for a Spanish priest

the Ruy Lopez

500

Italian for "cooked cream", this eggless custard can be garnished with raspberries

panna cotta

500

Thailand has land borders with Burma, Laos, Cambodia & this country

Malaysia

500

1955: Harlow Curtice, president of this automaker that was the first corporation to earn $1 billion in net profits in a year

General Motors


500

We're used to the Sunday holiday but in the British Commonwealth, this "Monday" is a holiday

Easter Monday