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Did You Know?
100
Now serving as an amusement park in Tianjin, this was once a top national security threat for the Reagan administration.
What is the Kiev aircraft carrier?
100
The recent international summit on climate change was held in this European city.
What is Copenhagen?
100
This athlete recently became the most decorated American Winter Olympian.
Who is Apollo Ohno?
100
Name of the flag that sailed atop many pirate ships.
What is the Jolly Roger?
100
Most popular vegetable in America, in terms of number eaten.
What are potatoes?
200
City where fortune cookies were invented in 1900.
What is San Francisco.
200
Extracted in Antarctica, these long cylinders give scientists crucial information about the Earth's climate as far back as 10,000 BCE.
What are Ice cores?
200
The 1980 Summer Olympic boycott was part of a package of actions taken in protest of this event.
What is the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
200
A deficiency of this vitamin can lead to "scurvy."
What is Vitamin C?
200
The first three words of the bible.
What is "In the beginning"?
300
This modern marvel caused a temporary wobble in the Earth's axis of rotation when it was first unveiled.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
300
After China, US, EU, Russia, and India, this country has the highest amount of carbon emissions per year.
What is Japan?
300
The three countries that have never hosted an Olympics.
What are Africa, South America and Antarctica?
300
Name of Blackbeard's ship.
What is Queen Anne's Revenge?
300
Author who wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Who is Robert Louis Stevenson?
400
The number of countries that border China.
What is 14? Korea, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam.
400
A badass scientist who regularly confronts public figures that deny climate change on CNN/MNBC.
Who is Bill Nye?
400
The two sports cut from the Olympics that are considered for re-inclusion in the 2020 Olympics.
What are baseball and wrestling?
400
Name of a 2013 blockbuster on Somali pirates.
What is Captain Phillips?
400
The smallest ocean.
What is the Artic?
500
China asserts territorial claims over Aksai Chin - a region in this hotly disputed territory.
What is Kashmir?
500
In 2050, this Pacific island nation is projected to become the first country to completely disappear due to rising sea levels.
What is Kiribati?
500
These were the last two countries to be banned from the Olympic games.
What are Iraq (2008) and Afghanistan (2000)?
500
Pirate that burned down Panama City in 1671.
Who is Henry Morgan?
500
The only mammal that can't jump.
What is the elephant?
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