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100

This record-breaking country-rap song peaked at number 1 on the Billboard chart for a record-breaking 19 consecutive weeks in 2019

What is "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X?

100
What does the abbreviation "USSR" stand for?
What is Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
100

This perverted procurer of children for America's elites "killed himself" in jail awaiting trial in August 2019.

Who is Jeffrey Epstein?

100

The earliest evidence of alcoholic consumption is a brewery found in a pre-historic cave in Haifa, in this modern-day country.

What is Israel?

100

Chicle, a natural tree gum and the first iteration of chewing gum, was first chewed by the Mayan and Aztec people of this large Latin American Nation

What is Mexico?

200

This New York neighborhood-themed viral sensation became the first instrumental track to top the Billboard Hot 100 since 1985 when it debuted at Number 1 in March 2013

What is "Harlem Shake"?

200

These sub-Saharan forest dwellers are the world's largest living primates

What are silverback gorillas?

200

This noted "lady's man" serial killer attended the University of Washington, and was portrayed by Zac Efron in a 2019 film

Who is Ted Bundy?

200

This traditional Mexican drink's name derives from a Nahuatl word meaning "oven-cooked agave"

What is mezcal?

200

This American company, now a subsidiary of Mars, is the world's largest gum manufacturer and gave its name to the Chicago Cub's stadium.

What is the Wrigley Company?

300

This May 2005 Gwen Stefani chart topper was labelled "the most annoying song ever" by Maxim magazine

What is Hollaback Girl?

300

This Asian city is the largest capital in the world by population

What is Beijing?

300

This man terrorized metropolitan Chicago in the 1970s as "Patches the Clown"

Who is John Wayne Gacy?

300

Prior to the American Revolutionary War, the average colonist drank 3 liters of this New World liquor every year.

What is rum?

300

This classic Americana character has appeared on the comic strip gum wrappers of his eponymous bubble gum brand since the early 1950s

Who is Bazooka Joe?

400

The record for Number 1 singles (38) is held by two artists: Madonna, and this Canadian-born rapper

Who is Drake?
400

Alex Trebek is from the town of Sudbury, historically inhabited by the Ojibwe, in this Canadian province

Where is Ontario?

400

This nickname was given to Lee Malvo and John Allen Muhammad, who killed 10 people in coordinated DC metro area shootings in 2002

What are the Beltway Snipers?

400

This distilled drink, flavored with a variety of spices and herbs including juniper berries, sparked a moral panic by uptight British losers in the early 18th century

What is gin?

400

This carbonated soft drink with a taste similar to bubble gum is a national icon and popular beverage in Peru

What is Inca Kola?

500

This song featuring Jamie Foxx and speed rapper Twista was Kanye West's first Billboard number 1 song in December 2003

What is "Slow Jamz"?

500

This 1805 battle, often considered Napoleon's greatest victory, resulted in the dissolution of the millenia-old Holy Roman Empire

What is Austerlitz?

500

This American real estate heir, the subject of the HBO documentary The Jinxis suspected of having murdered three people including his wife, but has never been convicted.

Who is Robert Durst?

500

The Greek ouzo, Levantine Arak, and Italian Sambuca liquors all contain this traditional Mediterranean spice

What is anise?

500

Susan Montgomery Williams, the former Guinness World Record holder for largest bubble gum bubble blown (23 in. in diameter), honed her craft growing up in the San Jaoquin Valley of this state

What is California?

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