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100
This US president was assassinated in 1963.
Who was JFK?
100
Which European city was divided during the Cold War?
What is Berlin?
100
The 9/11 attacks occurred in this year.
What is 2001?
100
After betamax, the 1980s saw the rise of this common format for video recordings.
What is VHS?
100
This iconic sports car was first released by Ford in the 1960s.
What is the mustang?
100
He directed the films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.
Who is Quentin Tarantino?
200
This tech guru and Apple CEO died in 2011.
Who was Steve Jobs?
200
THIS is Canada's capital city.
What is Ottowa?
200
THIS is the landmark Supreme Court case that ruled racial segregation of schools unconstitutional.
What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?
200
THIS INVENTION increased literacy in the early modern age. It's often compared to the invention of the Internet in the modern age.
What is Guttenberg's Printing Press?
200
In 2002, one person traveled around the world for the first time in a solo flight in THIS TYPE OF VEHICLE.
What is a hot air balloon?
200
This Academy Award Best Picture FILM also won 266 awards out of 405 nominations, making it the "most awarded film of all time".
What is Everything Everywhere All At Once?
300
This is the man who is the current Pope. He is from Argentina.
Who is Pope Francis?
300
This is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Sicily?
300
Two events in World History share THIS TERM. One is the domestication of plants and animals marking the neolithic period, the other is the advent of crop rotation, fodder crops, and enclosures marking the age of industrialization.
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
300
Trade along THIS ROUTE united Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
What is the Silk Road?
300
In 1994, a famous tunnel opened that connected England to THIS COUNTRY.
What is France?
300
This MUSICIAN holds the record for the most number one albums by a woman.
Who is Taylor Swift?
400
The first Roman emperor was THIS MAN.
Who was Augustus?
400
The Taj Mahal in India was built by THIS EMPIRE.
Who were the Mughals?
400
Daily Double!
Category: US History
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The constitutional amendment passed in 1919 guaranteed THIS.
400
One gigabyte is equal to THIS MANY megabytes.
What is 1000?
400
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Category: Aviation history
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SHE was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean solo.
400
In the movie Grease, the character Frenchy colorer her hair THIS COLOR.
What is pink?
500
This well-known physicist was born in Oxford in 1942.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
500
This country is made up of 7,000 islands.
What is the Philippines?
500
Julius Caesar was assassinated on this day...and Shakespeare warned against it!
What are the Ides of March?
500
Yu The Engineer was the first emperor of China. He ruled in THIS DYNASTY, which is also known as the "Mythical Dynasty".
What was the Xia Dynasty?
500
This San Francisco transportation shares an acronym name with a famous cartoon character voiced by Nancy Cartwright.
What is BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)?
500
FINAL JEOPARDY:
This is the first superhero FILM nominated for Best Picture.
What is Black Panther?