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On 6 February 2023, an earthquake struck those two countries.
Turkey and Syria
100
She is known for pioneering research on radioactivity and discovering polonium and radium. She is the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.
Marie Curie
100
An observation tower in Seattle is an iconic landmark that was built for the 1962 World's Fair. The name consists of two words – "the empty area outside Earth's atmosphere" and "a thin metal pin, used in sewing".
The Space Needle
100
His famous plays include As You Like It, King Lear, and Macbeth.
William Shakespeare
100
Most houses in Paraguay don’t have these. Instead, people clap their hands.
Doorbells
200
Eurovision Song Contest takes place in which city this year?
Liverpool
200
The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, she was the last monarch of the House of Tudor.
Queen Elizabeth I
200
It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC. This building has housed some of the most famous and influential people in the world since 1800.
The White House
200
He commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1775–83) and presided over the convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution.
George Washington
200
What is the traditional pattern on a kilt?
Tartan
300
Where will King Charles III be crowned on May 6?
Westminster Abbey
300
She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean who disappeared while attempting to become the first woman to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937.
Amelia Earhart
300
This medieval Catholic cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. In 2019, a fire destroyed the cathedral's roof and toppled its spire.
Notre-Dame
300
This person (336–323 BC) created a vast empire that stretched from Macedonia to Egypt and from Greece to part of India.
Alexander the Great
300
Which continent is the most linguistically diverse in the world?
Africa - The continent is home to anywhere from 800 to 1,500 of the world’s languages.
400
How old was the oldest person in the world, a French nun, Sister Andre at the time of her death?
118
400
This woman helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.
Rosa Parks
400
This chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the pope in Vatican City, is also famous for its frescoes that decorate the interior.
The Sistine Chapel
400
This Serbian-American inventor is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
Nikola Tesla
400
Awa Odori Festival, a dance festival, is held during the Obon-Week (the week when the spirits of the deceased are believed to visit the world) in which country?
Japan
500
This European country joined the eurozone on January 1, 2023, and became the 20th country to do so.
Croatia
500
Her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.
Harper Lee
500
This skyscraper in New York City, built between 1928 and 1930, shares the name of an automobile manufacturer.
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500
His novels include A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952).
Ernest Hemingway
500
How many islands are there in the Caribbean?
Over 7,000