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100

This expression means a person takes after one of their parents.

What is a chip off the old block?

This typically refers to a child having the same
personality traits or work ethic as a parent, rather than necessarily sharing the same physical appearance.

100

Baltic Avenue, Park Place, St. James Place, Atlantic Avenue, and Boardwalk are all
street names in this city.

What is Atlantic City? 

100

Even before she performed the final concert with the
Supremes in 1970, she was recording her first solo album

Who is Diana Ross? 


100

This elongated car is used by wedding parties, in funeral processions, and to and
from the office by moguls of industry.

What is a limousine?

100

The first man to set foot on the moon

Who is Neil Armstrong?

200

You do this when you complete an item on your to-do list.

What is cross it off (or tick it off)? 



200

Juan Valdez’s coffee hails from Colombia, whose capital city is this.

What is Bogotá?

200

He left his band of five family members in 1979 and struck out
on his own with two consecutive hit albums, Off the Wall and Thriller,
right out of the gate.

He left his band of five family members in 1979 and struck out
on his own with two consecutive hit albums, Off the Wall and Thriller,
right out of the gate.

200

In the film Murder on the Orient Express, the train ride starts in this city.

What is Istanbul? 

200

The century during which the first U.S. transcontinental railroad was finished

What is 19th century?  1869

300

Ready-made clothes are also called this.

What is off the rack? 

300

This capital city of a Pacific Rim country has the largest population in the world.

What is Tokyo? 

300

In 1971, this Beatle started a band known as Wings.

Who is Paul McCartney? 


300

One tourist adventure in Venice is to ride one of these
through the canals.

What is gondola? 

300

Who is believed to have created the first American flag?

Betsy Ross

400

Take this to exit the interstate highway system.

What is an off-ramp? 

400

One of the world’s most expensive places to live, this lavish European city is located
on the Mediterranean Sea

What is Monaco? 

400

This popular duo, consisting of Paul and Art, who each went on to
successful solo careers.

Who are Simon and Garfunkel? They have since performed
reunion tours together. “The Sound of Silence,” released in 1965, is
the tune that catapulted their duo career.

400

Jules Verne wrote a book about traveling for five weeks
in one of these unlikely modes of transportation, customarily used for recreation and sightseeing.

What is a balloon? 

400

First woman to win a Nobel Prize; did so for her work in the field of radioactivity and then again for her work in chemistry

Who is Marie Curie? 

500

To take the blush off this flower is to find something mundane that was once exciting

What is rose? 

500

This European city is infamous for its red-light district.

 What is Amsterdam? 

500

This performer was a member of the New Christy Minstrels and the First Edition before he left to pursue a solo career in which he gained fame with songs including The Gambler and Through the Years.

Who is Kenny Rogers?

500

Get comfortable—we’re going for a ride on this, the longest highway in the world.

What is Pan-American Highway? 

500

Origin country of the first woman in space

What is Soviet Union (not Russia)? In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova orbited Earth for three days.

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