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100

The capital of Iowa.

What is Des Moines?

100

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, famous for writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Who is Mark Twain?

100

A term for a fraudulent medical practitioner.

What is a "quack" doctor?

100

The element with the atomic number 6, forming the basis of organic chemistry.

What is carbon?

100

Often considered the longest river in the world, flowing through northeastern Africa.

What is The Nile?

200

The capital of Idaho.

What is Boise?

200

Author of The Old Man and the Sea.

Who is Ernest Hemingway?


200

A formal evening suit, often worn with a bow tie.

What is a tuxedo?

200

The force that attracts a body toward the center of the Earth.

What is gravity?

200

The capital city of Japan.

What is Toyko?

300

The capital of Washington State.

What is Olympia?

300

Poet from Amherst, Massachusetts, known for her reclusive lifestyle.

Who is Emily Dickinson?

300

An instrument used for measuring temperature.

What is a thermometer?

300

Known as the "Red Planet."

What is Mars?

300

The longest continental mountain range in the world, located in South America.

What is The Andes?

400

The capital of Maryland.

What is Annapolis?

400

Author of The Call of the Wild.

Who is Jack London?

400

The famous British passenger liner that sank in 1912.

What is The Titanic?

400

The smallest unit of ordinary matter that forms a chemical element.

What is an atom?

400

An Italian city famous for its canals and gondolas.

What is Venice?

500

The capital of Missouri.

What is Jefferson City?

500

Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence.

Who is Edith Wharton?

500

A unit of purity for gold.

What is a karat?

500

The process by which green plants transform light energy into chemical energy.

What is photosynthesis?

500

The largest hot desert in the world, located in Northern Africa.

What is The Sahara?

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