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100

These pyramids are located here

What is Egypt? (Double points if you put Giza)

100

This 1983 hit by The Police features Sting singing about every breath you take and every move you make.

What is Every Breath You Take?

100

This 1917 telegram, intercepted by the British, proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico, helping pull the U.S. into WWI.  

What is the Zimmerman Telegram?

100

In 1981, this music channel launched with the song "Video Killed the Radio Star."

What is MTV?

200

This is the nickname given to one of the earliest hominid from 3.2 million years ago (Hint: She was named after a famous Beatles song)

What is Lucy?

200

This 1984 Rockwell song features a paranoid chorus sung by an uncredited Michael Jackson.

What is "Somebody's Watching Me"?

200

In 1960, the USSR shot down this high-altitude American spy plane, leading to the capture of pilot Francis Gary Powers.

What is a U2?
200

This puzzle toy, invented by a Hungarian architect, became a worldwide craze in the early 80s.

What is a Rubik’s Cube?

300

Discovered in 1799, this slab of granodiorite was the key to finally deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs.

What is the Rosetta Stone?

300

In 1967, Frankie Valli released this song about a gaze so intense he starts by saying, "You're just too good to be true..." 

What is "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"?

300

This "Act," originally passed in 2001, significantly expanded the government's authority to monitor communications.

What is the PATRIOT Act?

300

In 1989, this structure, which had divided a German city since 1961, finally came down.

What is the Berlin Wall?

400

This Roman city was "frozen in time" in 79 AD when it was buried under several meters of volcanic ash.

What is Pompeii?

400

This Hall & Oates classic warns that "she's watching you" with these secret title characters.

What are "Private Eyes"?

400

This 4-letter acronym refers to the video system often used for surveillance within a building or campus.

What is CCTV?

400

Prince’s 1984 film and soundtrack shared this "colorful" weather-themed name.

What is Purple Rain?

500

This massive amphitheater in Rome could hold up to 50,000 spectators for gladiatorial games.

What is the Colosseum?

500

This 1967 song by Van Morrison is about a girl with specific pigment of ocular muscles.

What is Brown Eyed Girl?

500

This whistleblower leaked classified documents in 2013 revealing the NSA's mass data collection programs.

Who is Edward Snowden?

500

This 1986 disaster at a Soviet nuclear power plant remains the worst in history.

 

What is Chernobyl?

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