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Emil's Fun Bag of Questions
100

This social media platform uses a blue bird as its logo.

What is Twitter?

100

This ancient Greek king was said to have never lost a battle, having conquered land all the way to India.

Who is Alexander the Great?

100

This American golfer, often regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, went through a divorce after he was implicated in an infidelity scandal in 2009.

Who is Tiger Woods?

100

This fantasy novel follows a company of Dwarves and a single Hobbit as they take on the dragon Smaug.

What is "The Hobbit"?

100

This ape-like cryptid supposedly lives in the forests of Northwestern North America. 

What is Bigfoot?

200

This social media platform was created by former US president Donald Trump after he was banned from Twitter in 2021.

What is Truth Social?

200

This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human in space. 

Who is Yuri Gagarin?

200

Named after the sport that sparked it, Honduras and El Salvador fought this war in 1969.

What is the Football War?

200

The poet usually credited with authoring the two ancient Greek epics, the "Illiad" and the "Odyssey".

Who is Homer?

200

This tobacco product, popular in Scandinavia, is administered by being placed between the upper lip and the gums. 

What is Snus?

300

This bird, which inhabited the island of Mauritius, is well known for going extinct due to human intervention around the 17th century.

What is the dodo?

300

Credited as father of the atomic bomb, J. R. Oppenheimer famously said that he was "become Death, the destroyer of worlds", quoting scripture from this religion.

What is Hinduism?

300

This King of England first won a battle against the Norwegian King, then lost against the Duke of Normandy later the same year.

Who is Harold Godwinson
300

This dystopian sci-fi novel from 1931 depicts the broad and socially accepted usage of a happiness-producing drug known as "soma"

What is "Brave New World"?

300

This political movement and ideology believes fundamentally in the self-determination of all nations and in the creation of nation-states.

What is Nationalism? 

400

A group of finches inhabiting the Galápagos Islands were named after this famous English naturalist.

Who is Charles Darwin?

400

This piece of land was the target of the failed Terra Nova expedition, led by British explorer Robert Falcon Scott.

What is Antarctica / the South Pole?

400
This 19-year old Chess Grandmaster defeated World Champion Magnus Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup, but would subsequently face cheating allegations.

Who is Hans Niemann?

400

DAILY DOUBLE - The submarine from French sci-fi author Jules Verne's novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas".

What is Nautilus? 

400
This infection was intentionally spread in the weeks after 9/11 through the US mail system, killing 5 and infecting 17 others.

What is Anthrax? 

500

This group of flightless birds were named after the scientific term for the, now-extinct, Greak Auk, though they are not related to it biologically.

What are penguins?

500

This 19th century general is credited with achieving the unification of Italy through his "Expedition of the Thousand".

Who is Giuseppe Garibaldi? 

500
During the 2002 Nord-Ost Hostage Crisis, security services from this country killed 131 civilians, as well as 40 Chechen terrorists, when they pumped gas through the ventilation system.

What is Russia?

500
In this 1879 play by Henrik Ibsen, the main character is a married woman who has to contend with her sense of self, as well as with the social expectations placed upon her.

What is "A Doll House" by Henrik Ibsen?

500

This is the Latin term for deriving citizenship through being born on a certain territory.

What is jus soli?

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