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This is the year the US Constitution was ratified.
What is 1788?
100
This author is known for such works as A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities.
Who is Charles Dickens?
100
In 1996, a sheep with this name became the first animal successfully cloned.
Who was Dolly (the sheep)?
100
This is the temperature at which degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius are equal.
What is -40°?
100
This is the acceleration due to gravity, in meters per second per second, of objects on Earth (to the nearest tenth).
What is 9.8 m/s2?
100
This is the formula for the area of a circle.
What is 
100
These are the constituent countries of the UK.
What are England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland?
100
This artist founded the cubism movement along with George Braque.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
200
This was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
200
In order to speak during the meeting, the boys in Lord of the Flies must be holding this item.
What is the conch shell?
200
This is the tallest grass on Earth, and getting this question wrong might cause panda-monium.
What is bamboo?
200
Unlike most others, this common substance expands when it freezes, instead of contracting.
What is water?
200
Of these three sciences: astronomy, chemistry, and physics, this one is the oldest.
What is astronomy?
200
Everybody loves graphing equations, and we have this person to thank for creating the coordinate plane.
Who is Euclid?
200
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
200
This is the number of strings on a standard violin.
What is four?
300
He was the first man in space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
300
The key reminder from this famous SF novel is: "Don't Panic."
What is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
300
This is the total number of bones in the body of a shark (not counting any from food that may be in his stomach!).
What is zero?
300
This element is combined with iron to form steel.
What is carbon?
300
Nothing travels faster than this phenomenon.
What is light?
300
Statistically, in a room with this many people, there is a 50/50 chance that two of them will share a birthday.
What is 23 people?
300
The deepest in the world, this lake is located pretty far north, so is likely too cold to be an enjoyable swimming spot.
What is Lake Baikal?
300
This was the hometown of Italian artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci.
What is Vinci?
400
This Ukrainian power plant underwent a disastrous failure in 1986.
What is Chernobyl?
400
This writer, in 2004, became the first person to earn a billion dollars from writing books.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
400
This is the largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
400
This three-letter word indicates the combination of gases that surrounds the Earth.
What is air?
400
The Mpemba effect describes this unexpected aspect of water freezing.
What is the fact that hot water freezes faster than cold?
400
In the quadratic formula, this element (a, b, or c) appears the least.
What is c?
400
This is the largest desert on Earth.
What is Antarctica?
400
This prolific composer wrote just one opera: Fidelio.
Who is Ludwig von Beethoven?
500
The capitol of the Mayan empire, Tikal, was located in this present-day country.
What is Guatemala?
500
This title character was in charge of ringing the bells at Notre Dame.
Who is Quasimodo?
500
This is the color of unoxygenated blood.
What is red?
500
This is the most common gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
500
This natural phenomenon can be spherical, donut-shaped, or parachute shaped, depending on size and environmental factors.
What is a raindrop?
500
This is the only integer that cannot be written in Roman numerals.
What is zero?
500
This country is the only one in the world to have a non-rectangular flag.
What is Nepal?
500
This form of poetry is written to be performed live in front of an audience, often involving audience participation and done as part of a competition.
What is slam poetry?
600
It was in this century that construction on the Great Wall of China began.
What is the 7th century BCE?
600
This famous dystopian novel begins with the line, "It was a bright, cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen."
What is Nineteen Eighty-Four?
600
This is the study of mushrooms.
What is mycology?
600
The principal form of vitamin C is this acid.
What is ascorbic acid?
600
In this type of bond, atoms share electrons, rather than exchange them.
What is a covalent bond?
600
This famous sequence of numbers starts 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5....and it never stops!
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
600
This country's hill, Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu, has the longest place name in the world.
What is New Zealand?
600
This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
700
This was the largest empire in the history of the world (so far).
What was the British Empire?
700
This character had the Ring immediately before Bilbo Baggins first discovered it.
Who is Gollum?
700
This man created a classification system designed to organize all living things, that has been named for him.
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
700
While most metals are silvery (that is, they reflect all wavelengths more or less equally), these two elemental metals absorb blue and violet light, causing them to appear yellow or reddish.
What are gold and copper?
700
According to the uncertainty principle, if you know how fast a particle is going, then you definitely can't know this.
What is where it is?
700
Abbreviated as i, this is the only imaginary number.
What is √(−1) ?
700
While not the highest peak in the world (since that is measured from sea level), this peak in Ecuador is the furthest peak from the center of the Earth.
What is Mount Chimborazo?
700
This age is dawning in the musical Hair.
What is the age of Aquarius?
800
In 2014, this 17-year-old became the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
800
This Kurt Vonnegut Jr. novel combines time travel, aliens, war, and birdsong. "Poo-tee-weet?"
What is Slaughterhouse-Five?
800
This is the number of eyelids a cat has on each eye.
What is three?
800
This is the rarest naturally-occurring element in the Earth's crust.
What is Astatine? (At)
800
This branch of physics is concerned with the production, control, reception, and effects of sound.
What is acoustics?
800
This is the mathematical name for the shape of a baseball "diamond."
What is a rhombus?
800
This elaborately domed cathedral overlooks Red Square.
What is St. Basil's?
800
This musical instrument, a relative of the tuba, was created especially to be used while marching.
What is the Sousaphone?
900
These are the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What are The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria
900
This novelist and playwright has sold the most books of all time.
Who is Agatha Christie?
900
This is the fruit of the rose plant.
What is a rosehip?
900
These are the only two English letters not found in any of the two-letter abbreviations on the periodic table.
What are J and Q?
900
This physicist supplied a conceptualized cat in quite a strange predicament. (Spell his name correctly!)
Who is Schrödinger?
900
These are the next five digits of pi: 3.141592653_ _ _ _ _.
What are 5 8 9 7 9 ?
900
This nation claimed control of Afghanistan until 1919.
What is the UK?
900
This form of performance art was the subject of many of Edgar Degas's paintings.
What is ballet?
1000
In honor of the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, this is the complete list of all other Black Supreme Court Justices (so far).
Who are Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas?
1000
This book is quite often considered the first modern novel.
What is Don Quixote?
1000
This is what causes pollen to stick to a honeybee.
What is an electrostatic charge?
1000
As they did not fit into his concept of chemistry, Mendeleev denied this entire group of elements could possibly exist, until forced to add them to the periodic table in 1902, almost a decade after their discovery.
What are the noble (inert) gases?
1000
In the 16th century, this scientist demonstrated that all objects fall at the same speed by famously dropping two differently-massed balls off the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
Who is Galileo?
1000
Credit for the invention of calculus is typically given to Sir Isaac Newton, but this philosopher and mathematician was actually the first person to publish a paper describing it.
Who is Gottfried Leibniz?
1000
This country is in control of the most southern territory in the world (Antarctica is not a territory of any country!).
What is Chile?
1000
This is the art of bone carving.
What is scrimshaw?