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100
After he was kicked off the country charts for not being country enough, Lil Nas X took this song over to the pop charts, where it became the #1 song in the country for a record-setting 19 weeks.
What is Old Town Road?
100
This Washington DC sports team brought the World Series (baseball) championship back to the nation's capital for the first time in 95 years.
Who are the Nationals?
100
Fred and Fran are on vacation in Playa del Carmen. Fred is scuba diving. His sister Fran is parasailing. Fred is 38 feet below sea level. Fran is 115 feet above the sea. What is the difference in elevations of Fred and Fran?
What is 153 feet?
100
In this state of matter, the particles move rapidly, with no definite shape or volume.
What is gas?
100
In 2019, this China-based video-sharing social network service--that is all about viral content (and lots of lip syncing)--reached 1 billion downloads.
What is the TikTok?
200
The top-grossing movie of the year was this final film from a Marvel movie franchise. (I need the name of the franchise and the film.)
What is Avengers: Endgame?
200
This FC Barcelona forward (and Argentina captain) has been named by Forbes magazine as the top-paid athlete of the year and won the Golden Ball award as the best professional footballer on the planet.
Who is Lionel Messi?
200
Nia has 7/8 pounds of bird food. She puts an equal amount into each of 4 bird feeders. How much food does she place in each feeder?
What is 7/32?
200
Gravitational, elastic, and chemical are all examples of this type of energy.
What is potential energy?
200
Bringing in more than 600 million dollars in its first three days, this popular "warfare" franchise is set to have the best-selling video game for the second year in a row.
What is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare?
300
In August, at the age of 17, she became the first musician born in the 2000s to top the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
Who is Billie Eilish?
300
In June, this Canadian team became the first ever team from outside the United States to win an NBA championship, knocking off the favored Golden State Warriors.
Who are the Toronto Raptors?
300
Use the distributive property and the greatest common factor to create an equivalent expression to 27 + 45x.
What is 9(3 + 5x)?
300
In July of 2019, the United States celebrated the 50th anniversary of this event with a week of festivities--organized by the National Air and Space Museuam--on Washington DC's National Mall.
What is the Apollo Moon Landing?
300
This streaming service launched last month picking up more than 24 million subscribers in its first month, at the same time boosting cancellations of Netflix.
What is Disney Plus?
400
This Puerto Rican singer/songwriter had the top viewed music video on Youtube this year: Con Calma.
Who is Daddy Yankee?
400
Led by team captain Megan Rapinoe, this country successfully defended its title at the 2019 Women's World Cup held this past summer in France.
What is the United States?
400
Point q is located at (-1, 4). On a coordinate plane plot the points that are 3 units apart from point q and share the same y coordinate.
What are (-4, 4) and (2, 4)?
400
In science, a variable that is intentionally manipulated, or changed, by the experimenter is called this.
What is an independent variable?
400
Apple recently released its list of most downloaded free games, and knocking Fortnite from the top spot was this racing mobile game from Nintendo.
What is Mario Kart Tour?
500
A top streaming show of the year, the Mandalorian is a part of this fictional space universe.
What is Star Wars?
500
Back on top again, the New England Patriots knocked off this would be contender 13-3 in this year's Super Bowl.
Who are the St. Louis Rams?
500
Mr. Smith spent $20.57 on 8.5 gallons of gas. How much did Mr. Smith pay per gallon?
$2.42
500
Perhaps the most abundant species of flowering plant on the planet, the monopodial varieties, as shown here, grow upward from a single stalk.
What is the orchid?
500
This app, which uses artificial intelligence to change the way a person looks, became part of a viral challenge that had celebrities from Drake to Gordon Ramsay posting aged photos of themselves on social media.
What is FaceApp?