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In 2024 This Japanese ballplayer hit 54 home runs and won his first World Series.
Shohei Ohtani
400
This season's Super Bowl halftime show will be performed by this Puerto Rican musician.
Bad Bunny
400
A space that is completely devoid of all matter is known as this.
Vacuum/Void
400
According to Ethnologue this is the world's most widely spoken European language.
Spanish
400
This country's population fell by an estimated 20% due to the potato famine.
Ireland
400
This type of athletic court is on the fifth floor of the Supreme Court building and is humorously referred to as the "highest court in the land."
Basketball Court
800
At the 2024 Paris Olympics she became the most decorated U.S. gymnast in history.
Simone Biles
800
Adam West, Ben Affleck, and Christian Bale are some of the actors who have played this super hero.
Batman
800
More commonly known as a ramp, this two word phrase refers to one of the six types of simple machines.
Inclined Plane
800
While mainland China mostly speaks Mandarin, Hong Kong and Macau mostly speak this Chinese language.
Cantonese
800
This Nordic country is known as the "land of fire and ice" due to its volcanoes and glaciers.
Iceland
800
Depicted here, they are also known as jokers or fools.
Court Jester
1200
This southern city has hosted the Super Bowl eleven times, more than any other city.
New Orleans
1200
Arthur Miller's 1953 play The Crucible portrays a fictionalized version of these infamous criminal hearings.
Salem Witch trials
1200
An example of vestigiality in humans, it's estimated that 90% of Americans have had at least one of these removed.
Wisdom Teeth
1200
Made famous in the U.S. by Disney's The Lion King, the phrase "hakuna matata" comes from this African language.
Swahili
1200
A 1951 movie and a 2010 movie based on a Lewis Carroll book.
Alice in Wonderland
1200
An NBC tv show that ran from 1984 to 1992 about legal proceedings after dark. Rebooted in 2023.
Night Court
1600
The last American born NBA player to win the MVP is this former Houston Rockets Shooting Guard in 2018.
James Harden
1600
This candy bar was known as the Marathon bar in the UK and Ireland until 1990 when it adopted the global name.
Snickers
1600
Not solid, liquid, or gas, this state of matter comes from a Greek word meaning "moldable substance."
Plasma
1600
This country is considered the most linguistically diverse in the world with 840 native languages.
Papua New Guinea
1600
It first opened on July 17, 1955 in Anaheim, California.
Disneyland
1600
A defensive strategy in basketball where defenders apply intense pressure to the opposing team for the entire length of the court. Also used as a general term for any maximalist strategy.
Full Court Press
2000
One of the five colleges that can boast among their alumni a U.S. President and a Super Bowl Winning QB.
Delaware (Joe Flacco/Joe Biden)
Navy (Roger Staubach/Jimmy Carter)
Michigan (Tom Brady/Gerald Ford)
Stanford (Herbert Hoover/John Elway & Jim Plunkett)
Miami of Ohio (Ben Roethlisberger/Benjamin Harrison)
2000
Only two Presidential assassination attempts in U.S. history have been carried out by women and they both targeted this president.
Gerald Ford
2000
Name one of the elements on the periodic table named for a non-fictional person or place.
Americium
Berkelium
Copernicium
Curium
Einsteinium
Europium
Fermium
Flerovium
Francium
Gallium
Germanium
Livermorium
Mendelevium
Moscovium
Nihonium
Nobelium
Polonium
Tennessine
2000
Although many Native American languages were used by code talkers during World War II, the most famous belonged to this southwestern indigenous group.
Navajo
2000
the 2020 Academy Award winner for Best Picture.
Nomadland
2000
Presidents, Kings, Celebrities, and, Judges could be said to do this meaning to be the the center of attention due to one's fame or importance.
Hold Court