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Four cities are traditionally called the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China. One of them is obviously Beijing. Name one of the other three
What is Nanjing, Luoyang, or Changan
100

The cover of the best-selling book Freakonomics features these two 'distinct' objects.

What is an apple and an orange?

100
In Astronomy, this is the term for a minor celestial body that shares an orbit with a larger body.
What is Trojan?
100
Sprint events at the Olympics are usually dominated by countries from the western hemisphere. As of 2012, Susanthika Jayasinghe is the first and only Asian to win an Olympic medal in any of 100 m, 200 m or 400 m sprint events. This is the country she represented.
What is Sri Lanka
200
a) From what the girls of a brothel madam named Eve were called (b) From writer John Fitzgerald referring to a city's races as "Around" this (c) From the 1920s Jazz musicians began using this name adopting an old saying in show business that goes "There are many Xs on the tree, but only one..." All the above are proposed as the possible origin for this.
What is New York being called the Big Apple?
200
This most-rejected 1974 bestseller describes the 17-day journey of the author (who calls himself Phaedrus) and his son Chris from Minnesota to California.
What is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig?
200
German engineer Arthur Scherbius invented the first of these machines extensively used during WWII.
What is the Enigma machines?
200
The aquatics discipline at most Olympics and related events usually features diving, swimming, synchronized swimming and this other sport.
What is water polo?
300
After an episode of The Simpsons in which Bart is eaten by a boa aired in 2002, this soon-to-be-in-the-news city's tourism department threatened to sue Fox for defamation.
What is Rio?
300
The story of this acclaimed 1962 novel is that of writer Anna Wulf who keeps a record of her life in four journals and attempt to tie them all together in a fifth one.
What is The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing?
300
English physician John Snow successfully traced the outbreak of this disease to a water pump.
What is cholera?
300
The policy of banning weapons enforced in Okinawa in medieval Japan influenced the development of this combat technique from Ryukyu Islands.
What is Karate?
400
Any quizzer worth his salt knows that the major part of the Yucatan peninsula is Mexico. These are the other two countries that also occupy a small part of it?
What is Guatemala and Belize?
400
The following dialogue, potent enough to make one give up quizzing, is addressed to Guy Montag in this dystopian classic of the 20th century? "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they fell stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change."
What is Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury?
400
In a 1999 poll conducted by the British journal Physics World, this person is the only American in the list of the ten greatest physicists of all time.
What is the inimitable Dr. Richard Feynman (1918-88).
400
In 2004, the Chinese government banned a Nike ad that depicted LeBron James defeating a martial-arts teacher, flying spirits and this other creature?
What is a Dragon?
500
This is the only U.S. state flag to feature the Union Jack.
What is Hawaii?
500
The 1994 murder of a 14-year-old girl for ritualistic purposes in Botswana inspired the first book of this best-selling series.
What is The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith?
500
The baryon asymmetry problem in physics deals with the anomaly of why the universe has any matter at all and why it is not filled with photons only. This is because the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of this.
What is matter and antimatter?
500
Sculls and eggbeater are two of the basic skills in this aesthetically pleasing sport that became an Olympic medal event in 1984.
What is synchronized swimming?
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