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100

This country has the world's largest population as of 2026.

What is India?

100

Humans share about 60% of their DNA with this common fruit.

What is a banana?

100

The word "bookkeeper" is famous for having this unusual letter pattern.

What are three consecutive double letters?

100

In baseball, there are this many outs in a regulation game if neither team goes to extra innings. 

What is 54?

100

A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many remain?

What is 9?

200

Despite its name, Greenland belongs to this kingdom.

What is Denmark?

200

Lightening is about five times hotter than the surface of this star.

What is the Sun?

200

This playwright invented more than 1,700 words commonly used in English.

Who is William Shakespeare?

200

This team won the first modern World Series in 1903.

Who are the Boston Red Sox?

200

What gets wetter the more it dries?

What is a towel?

300

This capital city sits on two continents.

What is Istanbul?

300

This is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature. 

What is mercury?

300

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy's slippers were originally this color.

What is silver?

300

This tennis star won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.

Who is Serena Williams?

300

This country's name contains all five vowels exactly once.

What is Mozambique?

400

The world's largest desert is this icy continent.

What is Antarctica?

400

The strongest muscle in the human body relative to its size is often said to be this.

What is the jaw muscle?

400

This author wrote under the pen name Mark Twain.

Who is Samuel Langhorne Clemens?

400

The Stanley Cup is older than this trophy awarded in baseball.

What is the Commissioner's Trophy?

400

How many animals of each species did Moses take on the ark?

None. It was Noah, not Moses!

500

The world's southernmost active volcano is found on this continent.

What is Antarctica?

500

This element's symbol comes from its Latin name, natrium.

What is sodium?

500

This epic poem begins, "Sing to me of the man, Muse..."

What is The Odyssey?

500

This athlete played both Major League Baseball and NFL football professionally.

Who is Bo Jackson?

500

What has cities but no houses, forests but no trees, and rivers but no water?

What is a map?

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