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Illinois
Sports
Pop Culture
Authors
100

This country is the world's most populous.

China 
100

This sturdy tree is Illinois' state tree

White Oak

100

This country won the 2022 World Cup.

Argentina

100

He bought Twitter.

Elon Musk

100

He wrote Where the Wild Things Are and Little Bear.

Maurice Sendak

200

This painting is also known as "La Gioconda"

The Mona Lisa
200

Illinois was orginally a territory of this state

Virginia

200

Serena Williams, Novak Dokovic, and Roger Federer all play this sport.

Tennis

200

This is the highest grossing film of 2022.

Top Gun: Maverick 

200

She wrote The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Tar Baby.

Toni Morrison

300

Snakes use this part of their bodies to smell.

Their tongues.
300

By population Cook county is Illinois' largest county, this county is the smallest.

Hardin County

300

He was the 76th Heisman trophy winner

Cam Newton

300

Midnights is her tenth studio album.

Taylor Swift

300

Catherine and Healthcliff share a tragic romance in her novel.

Emily Bronte

400

Neil Armstrong was the first of how many total people to have walked on the Moon

12

400

This comptroller is Illinois' chief financial officer.

Susanna Mendoza

400

This many people are on a bobsled team.

4

400

This NHL Team won the Stanley Cup in 2022

Colorado Avalanche

400

This dramatist wrote The Children's Hour

Lillian Hellman

500

According to Greek Mythology she was the first woman on Earth

Pandora

500

Four US Presidents have called Illinois home; name two.

Lincoln, Grant, Obama, Reagan

500

Nyjah Huston and Gustavo Ribeiro participated in this new sport at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics

Skateboarding 

500

This online game that went viral at the start of 2022 was subsequently bought by the New York Times

Wordle

500

He was considered one of the preeminent novelists and essayists of the 20th century. This author wrote Native Son about the struggles of Black Americans in a Jim Crow Era America.

Richard Wright

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