Soft Drink Origins
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Space: The Final Frontier
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This brand of soft drink was created by Canadian pharmacist and chemist John J. McLaughlin in 1904.
What is Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale?
100
This game features locations like Molasses Swamp and Peanut Acres.
What is Candy Land?
100
This Jim Carrey vehicle based on a comic book received two thumbs up from Siskel and Ebert, apparently.
What is The Mask?
100
Theodor Geisel, American author of Hop on Pop and The Lorax, is better known by this pen name.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
100
This comet was discovered in 1705 and will orbit past earth again in 2061.
What is Halley's Comet?
200
This beverage brand hails from La Crosse, Wisconsin.
What is LaCroix?
200
In chess, the bishop piece can only move in this manner.
What is diagonally?
200
This member of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the House of Lords in London has been immortalized in masked form.
Who is Guy Fawkes?
200
In the episode of FRIENDS titled "The One After Ross Says Rachel", Phoebe introduces herself as this alter ego.
Who is Regina Phalange?
200
This planet was named after the roman god of the sky and thunder.
What is Jupiter?
300
This pulpy soft drink was developed in 1933 by a Spanish chemist, and is usually served in a bulbous, fruit-shaped bottle.
What is Orangina?
300
This British card game is similar to a French game called Vieux Garçon and to a German game called Black Peter.
What is Old Maid?
300
This type of party has its origins in 13th century Venice, where masked men threw scented eggs at ladies. Sounds like a real blast.
What is a masquerade?
300
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote Through the Looking-Glass under this pen name.
Who is Lewis Carroll?
300
At 2.5 million light years away, this is the nearest galaxy to the Milky Way.
What is Andromeda Galaxy?
400
Roy W. Allen and Frank Wright created a roadside stand in California to sell this beverage in 1919.
What is Rootbeer?
400
This multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber sees players create and trade wool, grain, lumber, brick, and ore to build infrastructure and gain victory points.
What is Catan? (Formerly Settlers of Catan)
400
This character wears only half of a traditional theatre mask so that they can belt out overwrought Andrew Lloyd Weber tunes.
Who is the Phantom of the Opera?
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400
In the 1970s and 1980s, this prolific and popular science fiction author wrote the novels Rage, Thinner, and The Long Walk under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.
Who is Stephen King?
400
This is the largest of Pluto's five natural satellites.
What is Charon?
500
This carbonated soft drink was created in the 1880s by pharmacist Charles Alderton in Waco, Texas.
What is Dr. Pepper?
500
This long-running game series invented by two Canadians uses 6 different question categories represented by the colors blue, pink, yellow, brown, green, and orange.
What is Trivial Pursuit?
500
The film The Man in the Iron Mask is an adaptation of this French author's work.
Who is Alexandre Dumas?
500
Mary Anne Evans wrote novels like Middlemarch, Silas Marner, and The Mill on the Floss under this pen name.
Who is George Eliot?
500
This spacecraft that launched in 1977 was the first to reach interstellar space in August 2012.
What is Voyager 1?
It is currently ~15 billion miles (~24 billion kilometers) away from Earth!