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100
  • What is the most expensive spice in the world?
  • A. Lobster                        C. Basil
  • B. Truffles                         D  Saffron

What is Saffron

Saffron is the most expensive spice in the world because it requires hand-picking roughly 75,000 to 150,000 Crocus sativus flowers  to produce just one pound of spice

100

Which is faster in the air, the speed of sound or the speed of light?

The  Speed of light.

100

What is the US equivalent of a Prime Minister?

President

100

What is the best selling book in the world?

What is the Bible

100

Who is known as the king of pop?

Michael Jackson

200

Which US city is famous for its deep-dish pizza?

What is Chicago?

200

Name the essential gas humans inhale to survive.

What is Oxygen

200

Which country backed the colonists in the revolutionary war?

France

200

What color is the letter "A" that Hester Prynne is forced to wear in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter?

What is red

200

What tempature does water freeze?

What is 32 degrees F/0 degrees Celsius

300

What country did katchup come from?

What is China 

It originally came from Chinese fermented fish sauce. The name likely derives from the Hokkien word "kê-tsiap."

300

Identify the force that attracts objects toward Earth's center.

What is gravity

300

How old do you have to be to president of the US?

at least 35 years old

300

In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which animal is famously always late and checks a pocket watch?

What is a rabbit?

300

What is arachnophobia?

The fear of spiders.

400
  1. What condiment is considered off-limits on a Chicago-style hot dog? 

What is Katchup?

In Chicago, putting ketchup on a hot dog is considered a culinary taboo due to historical quality pride, flavor balance, and local tradition

400

In which ocean is 'Mariana Trench' located?


What is, the Pacific Ocean?

400

What country invented ice cream and soccer?

China

400

Which famous detective was created by Arthur Conan Doyle?

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

400

How many days are in a fortnight?

14 (two weeks)

500
  1. What is the name of McDonald's mascot, the clown? 

Who is Ronald McDonald

500

What season is the sun in its highest in the sky in the Northern Hemisphere?

Summer

500

What document begins with the words "We the People"?

A. Decleration of Independence  

B. Constitution.                D. Bill of rights

C.Articles of Confederation

What is the Constitution?

500

Steven Kings book about a haunted hotel

What is The Shining?

500

Bono is the lead singer of what original band?

What is U2

600

What is the French dish of snails called?

What is escargot?

600

What is the universal donor blood type?

A AB+.                          C. O-

B A-                               D. O+

What is O-

600

What ancient Italian city was buried under ash after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?

What is Pompeii

600

One of the first concervationist this author spent time with Theadore Roosevelt and helped founded the National Parks

A Ansel Adams                   C. Benjamin Franklin

B Jane Goodall                    D John Muir

Who is John Muir?
600

Where does Superman have a day job?

What is the Daily Planet?

700

What state consumes more SPAM than any other state?


What is Hawaii 

(about 7 million cans per year, or roughly 5 cans per resident)

700

Who invented the telescope?

A. Steve Jobs                         C. Galileo

B Issiac Newton                      D Michael Angelo

Galileo 

700

Which branch of the US government can declare war ?  legislative (Senate House of represenatives), executive (president), or judicial. (Supreme Court)?

What is Executive Branch

700

Who is Frankenstein?

A. A  monster created from many people

B. A mad scientist who made a monster

C a writer of the short story about a monster

D The Monsters brother

Who is a mad scientist who made a monster

700

What is the nick name of the iconic clock tower in London England?

What is Big Bend?

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