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305-foot tall gift that took 9 years to build in France and then 4 months to reassemble in the United States

Statue of Liberty

100

The largest desert on Earth

Antarctica

100

All-time leading scorer in NBA history, with a total of 38,388 career points

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

100

Bezos owned newspaper suffers from nightmares after trauma

Washington Post traumatic stress disorder

100

Founded by Joseph Smith, this religious tradition is headquartered in Salt Lake City.

Mormonism or Church of Latter Day Saints

200

80-foot tall legendary gift said to have been designed by the warrior and strategist Epeius?

Trojan Horse

200

The driest place on Earth is the Atacama desert, in this country

Chile

200

The only military leader who fought more than 100 undefeated battles, including conquests of modern-day Iran and Syria

Khalid ibn Waleed

200

North of Westeros, the men beyond the Wall listen to Taylor Swift's latest album

Free-folklore

200

This religion features the creator "Ahura Mazda"

Zoroastrianism

300

In 1945, Canada was gifted 100,000 of this kind of flower by the Netherlands as thanks for sheltering future Queen Juliana

(Dutch) Tulips

300

This 1943 novella features a pilot who crash lands in the Sahara desert and encounters a visitor from outer space

The Little Prince

300

The first person to win two Nobel Prizes, one in chemistry and one in physics

Marie Curie

300

Beware these last days of Julius Caesar playing in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament

Ides of March Madness

300

Based on the Torah and oral traditions, this is the written body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law.

Talmud

400

The Mughal emperor Shah Jahan built a mausoleum for this departed wife

Mumtaz Mahal

400

A desert is defined as an area that gets less than how many inches of rainfall in a year (within two inches)

10 inches

400

Considered one of the best CEOs of all time, Jack Welch helped transform this company into an extremely profitable multinational corporation

General Electric

400

Lord of the Rings actor attends 1969 music festival

Elijah Woodstock

400

The Upanishads first mention the Hindu concept of the universal soul, referred to as this.

Brahman

500

This author wrote about Jim and Della, a couple who sell their prized possessions to buy presents for each other in the short story, “Gift of the Magi”

O. Henry (aka William Sydney Porter) 

500

This striking flower that you can find in Eastern Africa and Arabia


Desert Rose

500

Number 7 on Michael Hart’s “100 Most Influential Persons in History” is Cai Lun, who invented this

Paper / Paper-making

500

Emma Watson features with Gaston in New York hip hop group with albums "Licensed to Ill" and "Paul's Boutique"

Beauty and the Beastie Boys

500

Originally developed out of Isma'ilism, this faith from the Levant consider Moses' father-in-law as their chief prophet.

Druze

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