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100

Nicolas Cage is the nephew of this award-winning director. 

Who is Francis Ford Coppola?

100

Mercia was one of many ancient kingdoms that make up this modern country.

What is England?

100

This city was for a brief time its nation's capital and it was founded 152 years before the country came into existence. 

What is New York?

100

This word from Persian literally means "the king is dead".

What is checkmate?
100

This book written by Cervantes is often credited as the first modern novel

What is Don Quixote?

200

Jon Voight is the father of this Oscar-winning actress who has radically different politics

Who is Angelina Jolie?

200

This country was creation by the union of Castille and Aragon.

What is Spain?

200

This city of many names is in both in Asia and Europe and was originally founded in 667 BCE.

What is Istanbul?

200

This Arabic collection of folktales is the origin of the word "ghoul"

What is 1001 Arabian Nights (The Arabian Nights)?

200

Composer of Ancient Greek epics The Iliad and The Odyssey 

Who is Homer?

300

This 90s action comedy featured siblingsJohn and Joan Cusack

What is Grosse Point Blank?

300

This Italian nationalist is the reason Nottingham Forrest play in red

Who is Garibaldi?

300

This city was the birthplace of the Communist Party of China

What is Shanghai?

300

This word has become an affectionate term for Britain and originated from an Urdu word meaning "foreign".

What is Blighty?

300

The full title of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein often credited as the first science fiction novel

What is Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus?

400

The South Park movie "killed off" this group of acting siblings.

Who are The Baldwins?

400

The empire that controlled most of modern day India and Pakistan before Britain.

What is the Mughal Empire?

400

This city's black sand beaches were featured heavily in a 1993 Oscar winning movie

What is Auckland?

400

The name of this popular addition to dinner tables is an anglicised name of a Chinese concoction of mixed spices and pickled fish 

What is ketchup?

400

This year seeing the publication of The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, Mrs Dalloway by Virginnia Woolf and In Our Time by Ernest Hemmingway is often cited as the greatest ever year for literature

What is 1925?

500

The 1996 movie father and son Tom and Colin Hanks appeared in together.

What is That Thing You Do!

500

This European dynasty also supplied Mexico with its one and only emperor.

Who are the Habsburgs?

500

This city is the setting of 2009 sci-fi film District 9.

What is  Johannesburg?

500

This word meaning nonsense derived from the Dutch word for "soft dung"

What is poppycock?

500

Usually credited as the first autobiography in western civilisation Confessions was written by this religious figure around 400CE.

Who is St Augustine of Hippo?

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