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This word may refer to either a cleaning implement or a light coat meant to protect the underlying outfit.
What is a duster?
400
In 2011, UF engineering student Matt Feldman set the Guinness World Record for joggling, a portmanteau for a combination of these two activities.
What are running and juggling?
400
Following much controversy surrounding the governing body of this high-contact sport and its connection to Russia, the International Olympic Committee voted to allow its inclusion in the 2028 games.
What is boxing?
400
This Central American country is bordered by Nicaragua and Panama as well as the Carribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean.
Where is Costa Rica?
400
This 1961 children's book by Roald Dahl features the titular child having magical adventures alongside a group of human-sized insects inside of a large fruit.
What is James and the Giant Peach?
800
Fossils of insects are commonly found in this material, which derives its name from the waxy substance found inside sperm whales.
What is amber?
800
With UF's 2025 NCAA men's basketball win against Houston, we became the only school to have three national championships in both men's basketball and football because we took home the trophies in these other four years.
When were 1996 (FB), 2006 (both), 2007 (BB), and 2008 (FB)?
800
The last time that Los Angeles hosted the Summer Olympics was this Orwellian year.
What is 1984?
800
By definition, a country of this type--of which there are three--must border exactly one other country.
What is an enclave?
800
This novel by Mark Twain is a scathing satire beneath its veneer of childhood adventures along the Mississippi river.
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
1200
These devices, which feature promimently in the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, measure the amount of ionizing radiation absorbed over a period of time.
What is a dosimeter?
1200
Often referred to as the "potato", this fossil from the Oligocene Epoch is approximately 25-30 million years old and is properly referred to by this rather literal name.
What is the Turlington Rock?
1200
Disputes between America and this regulatory body surrounding 23 Chinese swimmers being allowed to compete after testing positive for banned substances ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics could potentially cost LA their ability to host the Summer Olympics.
What is the World Anti-Doping Agency?
1200
This landlocked Southeast Asian country is bordered by China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia.
Where is Laos?
1200
Despite being the host, alongside Larry the Cucumber, of Veggie Tales, this main character of the children's show is actually a fruit.
Who is Bob the Tomato?
1600
This word refers to several groups of venomous snakes in the Viperidae and Elapidae families, or to an arithmetician.
What is an adder?
1600
Guessing Game! Hosts, switch back to the slides.
Switch to the slides.
1600
This currently active Olympic athlete, expected to compete in LA, is the fifth most decorated in history with 14 medals: 9 Gold, 4 Silver, and 1 Bronze, earned from 2012 to 2024.
Who is Katie Ledecky?
1600
By sharing borders with this many members of the Union, Tennessee and Missouri tie for the highest number of other States bordered.
What is eight?
1600
This 1999 R-rated film--unrelated to the 1971 tune by Don McLean--includes a scene in which Jim, played by Jason Biggs, violates a warm apple pastry.
What is American Pie?
2000
This word refers to a 17th century "investigator", likely to be found in Salem.
What is a witchfinder?
2000
The University of Florida traces its origins to 1853 via this predecessor institution which operated in Ocala from 1853 to 1861, reopened in Gainesville in 1866 after the Civil War, and was eventually absorbed into the University of Florida in 1905.
What is the East Florida Seminary?
2000
In order to fulfil LA's "no build" policy of avoiding the creation of permanent facilities just for the Olympics, the Canoe Slalom and Softball events will be hosted 1300 miles away in this city, the largest found in Tornado Alley.
Where is Oklahoma City?
2000
The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) runs along this latitude line across the Korean Peninsula, creating a 160-mile long and 2.5-mile wide buffer between the North and South.
What is the 38th Parallel?
2000
William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name O. Henry, coined this term for a politically and economically unstable country that is dependent on exporting its natural resources in his 1905 book Cabbages and Kings after observing the activities of the United Fruit Company in Honduras and Guatemala.
What is a Banana Republic?