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200

I am Sam Sam I am…  do you like this offering?

Green Eggs and Ham

200

What sports logo is the swoosh?

Nike

200

What city was the first capital of the United States?

New York

200

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell are considered to be this type of novel

Dystopian Novel

200

The three main parts of a comet are the nucleus, the tail, and the _____

The Coma

400

1 fish 2 fish red fish blue fish. Black fish blue fish this fish new fish

Old Fish

400

Which quarterback has the most touchdown passes in NFL history?

Peyton Manning

400

Who first discovered America?

Leif Erikson

400

Captain John Yossarian in Catch-22 by Joseph Heller and Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, and Clyde Griffiths in An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser are considered this type of literary character.

Anti-Hero (Antagonist)

400

This geologic formation may be found overhead if you are in a cave

Stalactite

600

... But the Grinch who lived just north of this place did not! (like Christmas a lot that is)

Whoville

600

What Golf tournament is held in Augustus, Georgia?

The Masters

600

When was the Declaration of Independence signed?

August 2nd, 1776

600

Virginia Wolf wrote her masterpiece, To the Lighthouse, in this literary style.

Stream of Consciousness

600

It is the most common element in the human body

Oxygen

800

Now the star-belly these had bellies with stars. The plain-belly these had none upon thars

A Sneetches

800

Which hockey player has the most goals in his career?

Wayne Gretzki

800

Where did the pilgrims land in America?

Unknown

800

Robert Heinlein, who wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, is known as a pioneer in this literary genre

Science Fiction

800

This living animal has the heaviest brain

Sperm Whale

1000

On the fifteenth of May in the jungle of Nool this guy heard a small noise

Horton

1000

Which NFL team logo means the Flower of Life?

New Orleans Saints

1000

What were the names of Columbus' ships?

the Santa Maria, the Santa Clara, and unknown

1000

The Hitchhiker's Guide series by Douglas Adams, which lampoons modern society is a fine example of this literary form.

Parody

1000

It is the hardest element known

Carbon

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