Tree Of A Kind

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Trail Mix
First Born
100

Japanese,
silver,
sugar

Maples

100

An alternate route taken by automobile traffic when the normal route cannot be used

a detour

100

You won't need 21 guesses to name this rhyming type of short, leather-covered club

a blackjack

100

Popular with cyclists, the 18.5-mile Mount Vernon trail follows this river's shoreline

The Potomac

100

Shakespeare,
Milton,
Tennyson

 Shakespeare

200

Windmill,
sago,
date

A palm

200

After 4 years of active duty, LAPD officers are eligible to take exams to qualify for sergeant or this position

detective

200

The scientific name of this medium-sized animal is Ursus americanus, if "medium-sized" means weighing up to 600 lbs

a black bear

200

Pompeys Pillar, a famous rock formation in Montana, lies along the trail named for this pair

Lewis and Clark

200

Giuseppe Verdi,
Wolfgang Mozart,
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Wolfgang Mozart

300

Norway,
Serbian,
Sitka

Spruce

300

The policy of discouraging an enemy attack by maintaining sufficient military force to retaliate

a deterrent 

300

Theoretically, its gravitational field is so intense that no electromagnetic radiation can escape

a black hole

300

In Nebraska you can still see wagon wheel ruts on this trail that extended between the Missouri & Columbia Rivers

The Oregon Trail

300

John F. Kennedy,
Gerald Ford,
George H.W. Bush

Gerald Ford

400

Mission,
Manzanillo,
Kalamata

Olive Tree

400

In 1995 Camilo Jose Vergara proposed making this city's abandoned skyscrapers a theme park

Detroit

400

The bubonic plague was called by a more sinister name.

The Black Death

400

This National Scenic Trail passes through 14 states, including Maine & Georgi

The Appalachian Trail 

400

Pablo Picasso,
Salvador Dali,
Grandma Moses

Grandma Moses

500

 Rainbow,
yellow gum,
Tasmanian blue gum

Eucalyptus

500

A cleansing substance made from synthetic compounds rather than fats or lye

detergent

500

Churchill called his case of depression this animal 

The black dog

500

In the mid-1800s 70,000 Mormons traveled the Mormon Pioneer Trail between Nauvoo in this state & Utah

Illinois

500

Marco Polo,
Henry the Navigator,
Christopher Columbus

Marco Polo