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100

What is the main ingredient in guacamole?

Avocado

100

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

Marie Curie

100

Why did old mother Hubbard go to the cupboard?

To fetch the poor dog a bone

100

Who wrote “Pride and Prejudice”?

Jane Austen

100

Seoul is the capital city of which country?

South Korea

200

What food manufacturing company, uses several animal mascots to sell its cereals, such as Newton the Owl, Tony the Tiger, and a rooster named Cornelius?

Kellogg‘s

200

The United States bought Alaska from which country?

Russia

200

Mary Mary was quite contrary what did she grow in her garden?

Silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row

200

Who wrote The Great Gatsby?

F. Scott Fitzgerald 

200

Which US city is known as the 'Golden Gate city'?

San Francisco

300

What fast food chicken restaurant originated in Newfoundland?

Mary Brown’s

300

What was the name of the Category 5 hurricane that hit New Orleans and its surrounding areas in 2005?

Hurricane Katrina

300

Who were the 3 men in the tub?

The butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker

300

Who was the author of Winnie the Pooh?

A. A. Milne

300

What is the most populated city in the world?

Tokyo is the most populated city in the world, with more than 38 million people.

400

The simple Italian salad known as a Caprese salad typically includes tomatoes, basil, and what variety of cheese?

Mozzarella 

400

What event is commonly believed to have sparked World War I?

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria

400

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye,

How many blackbirds, were baked in the pie?

Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie 

(24)

400

Who wrote “The Odyssey”?

Homer

400

What is the capital city of Portugal?

Lisbon

500

Which tea blend is named after the British Prime Minister from 1830 to 1834?

Earl Grey

500

In which country was the Battle of Culloden fought in 1746?

Scotland

500

What did the farmers wife do to the 3 blind mice?

Cut off their tails with a carving knife

500

Who wrote “The Communist Manifesto”?

(2 authors, half points if you get one, full points for both)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

500

The River Tiber flows through which capital city?

Rome

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