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Hradcany Castle, once the home to the kings of Bohemia, is a popular tourist stop in this Czech capital.
What is Prague?
100
3-word name for the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
What is Bill of Rights?
100
Britain's largest automotive work force builds this luxury brand's XF & XJ.
What is Jaguar?
100
Collective term for the main means of a society's communication, including TV, radio, newspapers & the Internet.
What is media?
100
A bummer, man, or an aerodynamic force opposing an aircraft's motion through the air due to friction.
What is drag?
200
In November 2001, this Afghan capital was liberated from the Taliban.
What is Kabul?
200
We may vote for the president, but it's actually this body that formally makes the selection.
What is the Electoral College?
200
When you're told to go to the back of this vehicle, it's a long way in the record-setting one in Dresden that seats 256.
What is a bus?
200
6-letter word for a large piece of rock from space that passes into Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
200
Nima Arkani-Hamed is using this number dimension, the next one beyond time, to rock the physics world.
What is the 5th dimension?
300
El Salvador means "the savior"; this name of its capital means "sainted savior".
What is San Salvador?
300
Alphabetically, it's first among the 3 branches of the U.S. government.
What is the executive?
300
In 1968 Ralph Plaisted became the first to reach the North Pole driving one of these, a Ski-Doo.
What is a snowmobile?
300
It's equal to about 39.37 inches.
What is a meter?
300
The science of stoichiometry studies the amounts of substances needed to produce these chemical events.
What are reactions?
400
This capital's major street the Paseo de la Reforma passes through Chapultepec Park.
What is Mexico City?
400
It's a type of landlord as well as a type of ballot used by a voter who might be out of town on Election Day.
What is an absentee ballot?
400
The Pride of America sails for this cruise line with a Scandinavian name.
What is Norwegian?
400
This animal lives in the Kalahari desert & is related to the mongoose.
What is a meerkat?
400
Willard Libby won a 1960 Nobel Prize for developing the use of this number isotope of carbon to gauge the age of fossils.
What is carbon 14?
500
A statue of William Tell adorns the parliament building in this Swiss city.
What is Bern?
500
The Republican Party had existed for only about 20 years when it got this nickname.
What is the GOP?
500
Motorcar racing has taken place at the salt flats in this state since 1914. There are five major land speed events that take place at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Bonneville "Speed Week" takes place mid-August followed by "World of Speed" in September and the "World Finals" take place early October.
What is Utah?
500
8-letter negotiator who tries to make conflicting parties come to an agreement.
What is a mediator?
500
In March 2015, the Dawn spacecraft began orbiting this object in the asteroid belt, the first dwarf planet ever visited.
What is Ceres?
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