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ORGANIC CHEMISTRY for 100: You can breathe easy knowing photosynthesis causes plants to release this gas as a waste product.

**ABOVE, BELOW OR INTERSECTED BY THE EQUATOR for 100: China**

ALSO A TAYLOR SWIFT SONG for 200: Careful! This washing machine cycle using cold water and low spin speed is suggested for lingerie & silk neckties.

MAINE ATTRACTIONS for 200: For wildlife lovers, Maine offers safaris to spot this large mammal featured on its flag.

PEAK TV for 200: Due to a mix-up, the giant robot doll from this South Korean series was briefly displayed in front of a museum.

**WORLD CAPITAL ATTRACTIONS for 200:** In this city, if you’re in the mood for piazza, try the Navona or the Santa Maria.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II for 200: On Sept. 8, 2022, after 70 years on the throne, the Queen passed away at Balmoral Castle in this U.K. country.

UNDER STUDY for 300: Entomology is the study of these, of which there are close to a million identified species.

**DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA for 300:** Visit Pineapple Fountain & Fort Sumter when you go to Charleston, which, no, is not the capital of this ‘original 13’ state.

THREESOMES for 300:  According to the carol, it’s what ‘my true love gave to me’ on the third day of Christmas; I just hope he wasn’t regifting.

**LESSER-KNOWN SIBLINGS for 300:**  While his bros had hits like ‘Sucker’, actor Frankie said he hated being called ‘the bonus’ this name.

TREES for 300: This Bay Area city has a tree on its official flag (it’s the type of tree featured in the city’s name).

TELLING A BEDTIME STORY for 300: A Seussian home invasion, now that’s what he’ll do! / He’ll mistreat a fish! Turn two kids’ home into a zoo!

COLLEGE-LEVEL HISTORY COURSES for 300: Rice boasts that its ’20th Century American Presidents’ course covers the span of Theodore Roosevelt to this 42nd president.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM for 300: Before flowers & bones, the open skies of Texas were one of her early subjects, like the 1917 work ‘Starlight Night’.

WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA for 400: This author of _The Giving Tree_ gave us the poem ‘Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda’, a fun-size lesson in just doing it.

THE MOON for 400: NASA describes these phenomena as ‘bulges’ in the Earth’s oceans caused by the Moon’s gravitational pull.

AMERICANA for 400:  Yankee magazine says this New England state is known for chowder, old money & being the home of TV’s Gilmore girls.

BEST TIME TO VISIT for 400: Every October, hundreds of hot air balloons take flight in this New Mexico city at what’s called ‘the most photographed event in the world’.

ADVANCED CINEMATOGRAPHY for 400: Erik Messerschmidt shot the film _Mank_  primarily in deep focus as a nod to this Orson Welles opus that pioneered the technique.

FICTIONAL TV TOWNS for 400: Sunnydale, California (FYI, the local high school sits on top of a portal to a demonic dimension).

POP MUSIC for 400: The 2022 song ‘Bam Bam’ features vocals by Ed Sheeran & this Cuban-American superstar.

ORGANIC CHEMISTRY for 500: Chemically speaking, they’re molecules with at least one unpaired electron; true to their name, they can be, like, totally reactive.

TRAIN STATIONS for 600: No Muggles allowed on Platform 9 3/4, the fictional boarding site for this train at London’s King’s Cross Station.

POP CULTURE for 600: ‘Sincerely, Me’ is a song from this Broadway show that won the 2017 Tony for Best Musical.

WINE BIZ for 600: This meringue ingredient is sometimes used in winemaking to balance and clarify the end product.

THE NOBEL PRIZE for 600: The youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner is also a best-selling author, for her 2013 memoir titled ‘I Am’ this.

**DIRECTIONAL GEOGRAPHY IN AMERICA**  for 600:  Capitol Street & Capitol Market in Charleston, which, yes, is the capital of this state that was admitted in 1863.

**INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYTH STORY**  for 600:  After being part of a rebellion with his fellow Titans, he seemed to have the whole world on his shoulders.

LITERARY TOURISM for 600: Scotland’s remote island of Jura is famous for two things: a whisky distillery & the farmhouse where George Orwell wrote this classic.

HOLLYWOOD REPORTER for 600: This funnyman played a reporter who got to fill in for God in the movie _Bruce Almighty_.

STARS for 800: September babies like William Howard Taft & Beyoncé were born under the sign of this largest constellation of the zodiac.

CATS & DOGS for 800: Developed in what is now Thailand, this popular breed of cat comes in blue point, chocolate point & seal point varieties.

FICTIONAL TV TOWNS for 800: Capeside, Massachusetts (a small town with a big teen angst problem).

**THE MOUNT RUSHMORE OF MASTERPIECES for 800:** ‘Mona Lisa’, ‘The Last Supper’, ‘the starry night’ & this Botticelli work of a goddess standing in a scallop shell.

WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE for 900: This NBA-championship-winning team was honored at the White House in 2023; Steph Curry called the visit ‘majestic’.

**ALSO A GOOD STARTER WORD FOR WORDLE for 900:** Hey Maine-iacs! Should I boil my lobstah or do this to it in a basket, which I’ve heard gets the meat more tendah.

U.S. GOVERNMENT for 900: The person elected to this position casts the deciding vote if the Senate is tied, so he or she always votes on the winning side.

FEELING GASSY for 1000:  Helium gas gets its name from the Greek word for this astronomical body where it was first detected.

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES for 1000: This holiday is a symbol of summer’s end in the U.S. but in Europe, its equivalent is celebrated on May 1.

THE EYES HAVE IT for 1000: Lasik surgery corrects vision problems by using a laser to alter this dome-shaped tissue at the front of the eye.

BEST TIME TO VISIT for 1000: Dry season months like November are ideal for hiking ‘the Roof of Africa’ at Simien National Park in this country on Africa’s horn.

**THE ONE AND ONLY… for 1200:** Chess piece that can jump over other pieces.

NAME THAT ’90S HIT for 1200: Red Hot Chili Peppers: ‘I don’t ever wanna feel like I did that day, but take me to the place I love, take me all the way’.

A TRIP ON THE GULF STREAM for 1200: Leaving this Florida city, or its ‘West’ neighbor, we’ll have to cross the Gulf Stream to sail to the Bahamas.

SCIENCE IS COOL for 1500: Unlike most solids, dry ice doesn’t melt into a liquid, but turns directly into a gas, a process known as this.

BOX OFFICE SLEEPERS for 1500: _My Big Fat Greek Wedding_ introduced the idea that this household cleaner could cure anything, ‘from psoriasis to poison ivy’.

PEAK TV for 2000: Mike White, the creator of this series, said that the first season is about money and the second season is about sex.

Lastly, APOLOGIES for 3000: In a movie, Cynthia Nixon played this woman called the Belle of Amherst & known for poems like ‘I’m Sorry for the Dead—Today’.