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100
What is the name of the canal that links the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
The Panama Canal
100
How many sports/events are there in a decathlon?
10 events
100
What country is the home of the samurai warriors?
Japan
100
Which name is given to a boxer's swollen ears - cabbage ears, cauliflower ears or lettuce ears?
Cauliflower ears
100
What is a European "water closet" - a small swimming pool, a toilet or a drinking fountain?
a toilet
200
In geographic terms - What are the Sahara, the Kalahari and the Gobi?
deserts
200
How many pins do you try to knock down in bowling?
10
200
What was the first ocean to be spanned with a submarine cable?
The Atlantic
200
What is the fastest flying insect - a mosquito, a wasp or a dragonfly?
A dragonfly. Each wing can move independently of each other, allowing dragonflies to fly in all directions.
200
Which character from a Brother's Grimm fairytale destroyed himself after the Queen guessed his name?
Rumpelstilskin
300
What continent would you be visiting if your saw a wild wildebeest?
Africa
300
Which character is the hero in the movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark"?
Indiana Jones
300
Which U.S. president was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald?
President John F. Kennedy
300
How many wisdom teeth do most people have?
4
300
What popular food's name means "little string" in Italian?
Spaghetti
400
What Middle Eastern city is referred to in the Bible as the City of David?
Bethlehem (aka house of bread)
400
What forest-loving hero of books, plays and movies, was known as the "Prince of Thieves"?
Robin Hood
400
What was the name given to the warrior slaves who fought each other as a spectator sport in the Colosseums of ancient Rome?
gladiators
400
What is the only mammal that's venomous - a porcupine, an armadillo or a duckbill platypus?
a duckbill platypus
400
What language does the word "algebra" come from - Latin, Arabic or Spanish?
Arabic
500
What Frenchman's defeat in Russia is commemorated in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture?
Napoleon's defeat
500
What book is about an amphibian that lives at Toad Hall - The Frog Prince, The Wind in the Willos or Jeremy Fisher?
The Wind in the Willows
500
Who was Ronald Reagan's vice-president?
George Bush
500
What dark and fruit pie ingredients come from the bramble bush?
Blackberries (as well as raspberries and black raspberries)
500
Which of these "nuts" is not really a nut but a vegetable - a walnut, chesnut or peanut?
peanuts, they are legumes