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100

This game involves two teams of 6 hitting a ball by hand over a large net, includes positions such as libero, setters, and hitters. 

What is volleyball?

100

In 1893, New Zealand became the first country in the world to do this for women.

What is equal rights to vote? 

100

This popular sitcom is about six friends living in New York

What is Friends? 

100

These cell organelles are known as the “powerhouses” because they generate ATP through cellular respiration.

What is mitochondria?

100

This famous painter cut off part of his own ear in 1888.

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

200

New Zealand won the Rugby World Cup for the first time in this year.

What is 1987?

200

The gold rush of the 1860s took place largely in this New Zealand region.

What is Otago? 

200

This K‑pop group became the first to top the Billboard Hot 100 with “Dynamite.”

Who is Blackpink? 

200

This wave property — measured in hertz — describes how many cycles of a wave pass a point per second.

What is frequency?

200

This classic 1937 novel by J.R.R. Tolkien follows Bilbo Baggins on an unexpected journey involving dwarves, trolls, and a dragon named Smaug.

What is the Hobbit?
300

This team did the first-ever three‑peat NBA championship run of the 2000s (2000–2002)

Who are the Los Angeles Lakers? 

300

This prime minister led New Zealand through much of World War II and introduced major social reforms.

Who is Michael Joseph Savage?

300

This singer became the youngest artist ever to win all “Big Four” Grammy categories in 2020.

Who is Billie Eilish? 

300

This type of organic molecule always contains the –COOH group.

What is carboxylic acid?

300

This ancient temple complex in Cambodia is the largest religious monument in the world.

What is Angkor Wat?

400

This midfielder scored the Premier League’s fastest hat‑trick in just 2 minutes 56 seconds in 2015.

Who is Sadio Mane? 

400

This Māori explorer is traditionally credited with discovering Aotearoa after chasing a giant octopus across the Pacific.

Who is Kupe? 

400

This British band’s 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon spent over 900 weeks on the Billboard 200.

What is Pink Floyd?

400

This deep‑sea creature uses bioluminescent lures produced by symbiotic bacteria to attract prey in the aphotic zone.

What is anglerfish? 

400

This African capital city sits at the highest elevation on the continent, over 2,300 metres above sea level.

What is Addis Ababa?

500

She completed a calender-year Golden Slam (All 4 tennis majors) in 1988.

Who is Steffi Graf? 

500

This New Zealand aviator was the first person to fly solo from England to New Zealand in 1936, becoming a national hero.

Who is Jean Batten? 

500

This 1995 neo‑noir crime film by Carl Franklin stars Denzel Washington as an ex‑detective investigating a missing woman in Los Angeles.

What is Devil in a Blue Dress? 
500

This rare type of electromagnetic radiation has wavelengths shorter than X‑rays and is produced naturally by cosmic objects like neutron stars.

What are gamma rays? 

500

This person was the first President of the United States to have been impeached

Who is Andrew Johnson?

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