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100
This community is unique in that it has banned sources of light pollution that interfere with astronomical observations.
What is Deerlick Astronomy Village?
100
The Zika virus has been link to what condition in newborns.
What is microcephaly?
100
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Sudan suspended diplomatic relations with this country following the attack on the Saudi Embassy.
What is Iran?
100
This organization will rule on President Obama's executive order that allow illegal immigrants to stay in the US without fear of deportation.
What is the US Supreme Court?
100
This person has developed a driverless robot to deliver packages to homes.
What is Ahti Heinla CEO of Starship Technologies?
200
This personal submersible, created by Deep Flight, can explore the ocean to a depth of 500ft for up to 8 hours.
What is The Grey Hawk?
200
Titan arum is called the corpse flower because it does this when it blooms.
What is gives off a foul odor?
200
ISIS terrorists targeted a tourist location in this capital city of Indonesia killing two people and injuring 19.
What is Jakarta?
200
Due to the lifting of these, Iran is allowed to resume exporting oil which could result in oil prices sinking even lower and threatening the economy of other oil exporting countries.
What are international sanctions?
200
The copyright of this book written by Hitler expired on 1/1/16 which lead to the debate as to whether it should be reprinted or not.
What is Mein Kampf?
300
Aaron Wypyszynski, founder of WYP Aviation, is developing one of these.
What is a wing board?
300
This state is having a dramatic increase in heroin addiction.
What is New Hampshire?
300
This country is facing multiple challenges including a fight against PKK militants, influx of refugees from neighboring Syria, violent attacks by ISIS terrorists, a Russian tourist boycott, and political opposition against current president Recep Tayyip Erdogan?
What is Turkey?
300
In a prisoner exchange, Iran release 4 American prisoners and the US released 7 Iranians who were convicted or accused of this.
What is illegally exporting electronics, satellite services or military equipment to Iran?
300
The percentage of land in the US owned by the federal government.
What is 28%? (52% of the federal land is in the western states and Alaska)
400
NASA is developing a space surveillance system or space fence to track space debris utilizing this type of technology.
What is radar-based technology?
400
The people of Flint, Michigan, are experiencing this due to corrosive pipes in the city's water supply system.
What is lead toxicity?
400
What organization has been responsible for the assassination of Prime Minister Benazhir Bhutto, the shooting of Malala Yousafzai, attacks on the Protestant church and a suicide bombing that killed 7 CIA officers in Afghanistan.
What is Pakistani Taliban?
400
Armed protestors, lead by Ammon Bundy, occupied the federal national wildlife building in Oregon to protest the federal governments treatment of these two landowners.
Who are Dwight and Steven Hammond?
400
Bubble wrap was invented in this year.
What is 1957?
500
The area of the brain where scientists believe deja vu occurs.
What is the medial temporal lobe, where the rhinal cortex interacts with the hippocampus?
500
Per the CDC, distracted driving injures more than _________ people nationwide in the US every day.
What is 1,100?
500
Very conservative followers of Islam, the Salafists of ISIS, al Qaeda, Wahhabis and Sufis are part of this Muslim Sect that follows Abu Bakr.
What is Sunni Muslims?
500
Per the UN Security Council, this country broke its resolution against nuclear weapons and may face international sanctions when it conducted an underground test of a nuclear hydrogen bomb.
What is North Korea?
500
This country recently passed a law allowing officials to confiscate valuables worth more than $1400 from migrants and refugees entering the country.
What is Denmark?
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