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What's In a Name
100

This is the name of the news organization with the largest viewership in the USA.

What is Fox News?

100

This AFC East team was recently defeated for the first time in the 2019-2020 NFL season.

Who are the New England Patriots?

100

This audio auteur was provided the first US patent for the telephone.

Who was Alexander Grahm Bell?

100

A terrible tragedy strikes Paris on this date in what year?

What is the Paris Bombing Attacks of 2015

100

This common word is actually an acronym that describes amplified and stimulated light.

What is the laser?

200

These two news organizations have the second and third highest viewership numbers for the USA

Who are CNN and MSNBC?

200

This AFC North team is the only team without a win in the NFL this season.

Who is the Cinncinati Bengals?

200

This word is a shortened version of the phrase, "binary digit".

What is a bit?

200

This environmental disaster was perpetrated by Exxon Valdez off the coast of Galicia 2002.

What is the Prestige Oil Spill?

200

This word originally described something common but is often used to describe something unrefined or rude.

What is vulgar?

300

This empire state newspaper has been printed for over 100 years!

What is the New York Post

300

This team recently won its second MLS Cup.

Who are the Seattle Sounders

300

On this planet, a day is considerably longer than a year.

What is the planet Venus?

300

This civil rights ruling from the Supreme Court of the United States desegregated buses in this year.

What is 1956?

300

This is the correct plural of the word octopus.

What is either octopuses or octopodes?

400

This website is the largest purveyor of digital news stories on the internet.

What is Facebook?

400

This highly lauded number one pick will miss the beginning of the 2019-2020 NBA season.

Sorry fantasy draft players

Who is Zion Williamson

400

This common arboreal mammal is known to both bark and growl.

What is the squirrel?

400

This famous animated Disney musical which was based upon famous classical music arrangements was released today in 1940.

What is Fantasia?

400

This word describes other words that represent sounds which are not formal words.

What is an onomatopoeia? 

Zoinks!

500

This ocean state publication is the oldest continually circulating published daily periodical in the United States.

What is The Providence Journal

500

Name the top three most viewed sporting events in the world by viewership. 

What are: The London Olympics (2012), The Bejing Olympics (2008), The World Cup 2010 (South Africa)?

500

The effect describes collective commonly held false memories. 

"Luke, I am your father!"
The example above is the incorrect but commonly held remembrance of a line from the film.

What is the Mandela Effect?

It's Berenstain bears you know...

500

This president in this year signed an executive order signaled the allowance of military tribunals against foreign suspects for the first time since World War II. 

Who is George W. Bush in 2001?

500

This adjective arises from the speech patterns of ancient Spartans.

What is laconic?

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