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He was the first President of the United States and the only one who didn't live in the White House

Who is George Washington?

200

in The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy famously follows this colorful path to reach the Emerald City.

What is the Yellow Brick Road?

200

Paris is the capital and largest city of this European nation.

What is France?

200

Water freezes at 32 degrees on this temperature scale.

What is Fahrenheit?

200

This 8-letter word for a vehicle reads the exact same backward as forward.

What is a racecar? (Accepts "What is a palindrome?")

400

This 16th president guided the nation through the American Civil War and delivered the Gettysburg Address.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400

This pop star's historic "Eras Tour" became the highest-grossing music tour of all time.

Who is Taylor Swift?

400

This massive South American rainforest produces roughly 20% of the world's oxygen.

What is the Amazon?

400

This essential gas is what humans breathe in to survive and what plants release during photosynthesis.

What is Oxygen?

400

It's the term for a figure of speech that contradicts itself, like "jumbo shrimp" or "seriously funny."

What is an oxymoron?

600

He was the youngest person to ever become president, taking office at age 42 after the assassination of William McKinley.

Who is Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt?

600

This fictional, coffee-obsessed Central Perk gang forms the core cast of this hit 90s NBC sitcom.

What is Friends?

600

Though Sydney is its largest city, this is the official, purpose-built capital of Australia.

What is Canberra?

600

H2O is the chemical formula for water; this is the everyday name for the compound NaCl.

What is Salt (Sodium Chloride)?



600

If you rearrange the letters of the word "LISTEN," you can form this 6-letter word for absolute quiet.

What is "SILENT"? (An anagram clue)

800

Before becoming the 34th president, this former five-star general served as the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during WWII.

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?

800

This 1994 film won Best Picture, starring Tom Hanks as a simple-minded but incredibly lucky man from Alabama who loves running.

What is Forrest Gump?

800

This Asian country is an archipelago made up of over 6,800 islands, with Tokyo sitting on its largest island, Honshu.

What is Japan?

800

Often called the "powerhouse of the cell," this organelle generates most of its chemical energy.

What is the Mitochondria?

800

This 6-letter suffix is added to the end of a word to mean "the study of," such as in Biology or Psychology.

What is "-ology"?

1000

 He is the only U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms, making him both the 22nd and 24th president

Who is Grover Cleveland?

1000

This director behind Inception and Interstellar won his first Best Director Oscar for the 2023 biographical drama Oppenheimer.

Who is Christopher Nolan?

1000

Plunging nearly 36,000 feet, the Challenger Deep is the lowest point on Earth and is located in this western Pacific trench.

What is the Mariana Trench?




1000

Diamond and graphite are both naturally occurring forms of this single chemical element.

What is Carbon?

1000

This punctuation mark is used to join words together to form compound adjectives, like "well-known" or "two-year-old."

What is a hyphen?




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