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In a recent blockbuster NFL trade, Micah Parsons was sent to which team in exchange for two first-round picks and Kenny Clark?

Who are the Packers?

100

In The Silence of the Lambs, which cunning and cultured cannibal helps the FBI while also indulging in his own gruesome habits?

Who is Hannibal Lecter?

100

Breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947, which infielder debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers?

Who is Jackie Robinson?

100

Crown Electric in Memphis once paid which future King of Rock-and-Roll to drive a delivery truck before his first Sun Studio session?

Who is Elvis Presley?

100

Tom Hanks lands on Omaha Beach in what 1998 Spielberg World War II film famous for its harrowing first 20 minutes?

What is Saving Private Ryan?

200

What MLB team became the first in history to hit nine home runs in a single game twice in one season?

Who are the Yankees?

200

The 1999 film adaptation of "The Green Mile" starred whom as Paul Edgecomb?

Who is Tom Hanks?

200

Which professional golfing legend nicknamed the Golden Bear captured a record-setting sixth Masters at age 46?

Who is Jack Nicklaus?

200

Who spent seven months delivering mail in Littleton, Massachusetts before comedy and The Office made him famous? 

Who is Steve Carell?

200

Who directed the 1993 black-and-white Holocaust drama Schindler's List?

Who is Steven Spielberg?

300

The song Every Breath You Take is the subject of a 2025 lawsuit involving Sting and his former bandmates from what iconic band?

Who are The Police?

300

Who is Snoopy's arch enemy?

What is The Red Baron?

300

From 2016 to 2019, which Friends star hosted Top Gear on the BBC?

Who is Matt LeBlanc?

300

A pre-teen version of which Canadian singer appeared on the Nickelodeon show You Can't Do That on Television before writing Jagged Little Pill?

Who is Alanis Morissette?

300

In Argo, CIA rescuers pose as filmmakers while extracting hostages from which Iranian capital during 1980?

What is Tehran?

400

Which Stranger Things actress announced that she has adopted a baby with her husband, Jake Bongiovi?

Who is Millie Bobby Brown?

400

In 1976, who was the first woman to become a national network news co-anchor?

Who is Barbara Walters?

400

What John Mellencamp song features the lyrics "Ain't that America / for you and me"?

What is Pink Houses?

400

Which Grammy-winning artist got her start by mailing homemade demos at 11, then signed with Big Machine Records at 15?

Who is Taylor Swift?

400

Which 2016 Mel Gibson film follows pacifist medic Desmond Doss as he rescues comrades during the Battle of Okinawa?

What is Hacksaw Ridge?

500

Which smash hit animated film recently became Netflix’s most watched movie in history?

What is KPop Demon Hunters?

500

Which band member of Thin Lizzy died of drug overdose?

Who is Phil Lynott?

500

The Treaty of Madrid was a 1750 agreement between Spain and what neighboring nation?

What is Portugal?

500

Before Han Solo took flight, which actor earned rent money crafting custom cabinets for George Lucas and other Hollywood clients?

Who is Harrison Ford?

500

In the 2000 epic Gladiator, Richard Harris portrays which Stoic philosopher-emperor of Rome?

Who is Marcus Aurelius?

600

Which Austrian city was recently declared as the location for the 2026 Eurovision contest?

What is Vienna?

600

Marilyn Monroe made her first movie appearance in 1947 in which film?

What is Dangerous Years?

600

What Marvel Studios film became the first superhero film nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars?

What is Black Panther?

600

Which future home-and-lifestyle mogul cold-called clients as a Wall Street stockbroker in the early 1970s?

Who is Martha Stewart?

600

During the 1805 chase in Master and Commander, HMS Surprise seeks to capture a privateer flying the tricolor of which European nation?

What is France?

800

Which English sports broadcasting company recently signed a three year deal to show NFL games?

What is Sky Sports?

800

Who allegedly wrote the song "Golden Years" for Elvis Presley but ended up recording it himself?

Who is David Bowie?

800

What legendary kingdom of immense gold riches inspired multiple Spanish expeditions across northern South America during the 1500s?

What is El Dorado?

800

Before playing in Marvel movie, which Aussie actor entertained kids' parties as a clown named Coco and admits he wasn't very funny?

Who is Hugh Jackman?

800

Which Jim Sheridan courtroom drama recounts the wrongful imprisonment of Gerry Conlon and the other Guildford Four?

What is In the Name of the Father?

1000

The man who recently shattered the Guinness World Record for longest voluntarily held breath underwater at 29 minutes and 3 seconds hailed from which country?

What is Croatia?

1000

Who left his Air America radio show in 2007 to run for the US Senate?

Who is Al Franken?

1000

What Italian river did Julius Caesar famously cross in 49 BC with his army, sparking civil war?

What is the Rubicon?

1000

Who was the Oscar-winning actor who waved an El Pollo Loco sign in a giant chicken suit on Los Angeles sidewalks during his struggling actor days?

Who is Brad Pitt?

1000

Benedict Cumberbatch deciphers Enigma traffic at Bletchley Park in which 2014 wartime drama?

What is The Imitation Game?

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