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150

This is the largest planet in the solar system.

What is Jupiter?

150

What animal is known as the "ship of the desert"?

What is the camel?

150

This Italian Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

What is Leonardo da Vinci?

150

This singer was born Robert Zimmerman, but changed his name before becoming one of the most influential songwriters of the 1960s.

 Who is Bob Dylan?
Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman.

150

This sitcom's opening credits famously showed its main character running through Central Park while the theme song played, “Those Were the Days.”


What is All in the Family?

300

What is the name of Canada's longest river?

What is The Mackenzie River?


300

Unlike most fish, this marine animal has three hearts and blue, copper-based blood.
 

What is an octopus?

300

This literary detective, created by Arthur Conan Doyle, lives at 221B Baker Street.

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

300

Before becoming a superstar with hits such as “Faith” and “Careless Whisper,” this singer was one half of the duo Wham!

Who is George Michael?

300

This 1973 film won Best Picture at the 1973 Academy Awards and was based on the novel by Mario Puzo.


What is The Godfather?
  The Godfather won Best Picture at the 45th Academy Awards.

450

What gas do plants take in during photosynthesis?

What is Carbon Dioxide?

450

This animal is the largest living species of penguin, standing nearly 4 feet tall.

What is the emperor penguin?

450

This fictional boy attends Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Who is Harry Potter?

450

This Motown group of four brothers had hits including “I Want You Back,” “ABC,” and “I'll Be There.”

Who are The Jackson 5?

450

This 1927 Al Jolson film became famous as the first feature-length movie with extensive synchronized spoken dialogue.

What is The Jazz Singer?

600

What type of angle measures exactly 90°?

What is a Right angle?

600

Found mainly in Australia and New Guinea, this egg-laying mammal has a duck-like bill and webbed feet.

 What is a platypus?

600

This French Gothic cathedral is famous for its flying buttresses and its role in Victor Hugo’s 1831 novel.

What is Notre-Dame de Paris?

600

This jazz trumpeter recorded the landmark 1959 album Kind of Blue.

Who is Miles Davis?

600

John Wayne won an Academy Award for Best Actor for playing this one-eyed U.S. Marshal in a 1969 film.


Answer: Who is Rooster Cogburn?
Film: True Grit

750

What is the name of the political system in which Canadian citizens elect representatives to govern them?

What is Parliamentary Democracy?

750

This is the world's largest species of shark, despite feeding primarily on plankton.

What is the whale shark?

750

This British author created the fictional detective Hercule Poirot.
 

Who is Agatha Christie?

750

This famous musician played the famous guitar solo on Michael Jackson's “Beat It”.

 Who is Eddie Van Halen?

750

This 1975 film starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher became only the second film in Academy history to win all five major Oscars: Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay.


 What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

900

Solve: 3 + x = 17.

Answer: x = 14

900

This biome is characterized by permafrost, extremely cold temperatures, and low-growing vegetation.

What is the tundra?

900

This Spanish artist and Georges Braque were the principal creators of Cubism in the early 20th century.

Who is Pablo Picasso?

900

This song features a bartender named John in its lyrics.

What is “Piano Man”?

900

This actor won his first Academy Award for playing Detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle in the 1971 crime film The French Connection.


Who is Gene Hackman?

1000

What is the smallest prime number?

What is 2?

1000

This layer of Earth's atmosphere contains the ozone layer and is directly above the troposphere.

What is the stratosphere?

1000

This American composer wrote the scores for films including Jaws, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.

Who is John Williams?

1000

This musician is one of only three artists to have won the Grammy for Album of the Year three times—joining Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon. Taylor Swift has won 4 times. 


Answer: Who is Stevie Wonder?
 Grammy identifies Wonder, Sinatra and Simon as the three artists who had won the award three times.

1000

This groundbreaking sitcom ended its seven-year run in 1977 with an episode in which nearly the entire WJM-TV newsroom staff is fired. In the final scene, the characters leave the newsroom together while singing a World War I-era song.


 


What is The Mary Tyler Moore Show?

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