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This title was given to the rulers of ancient Egypt who were considered both monarchs and gods

Pharaoh

100

James Bond’s favorite tipple

Vodka Martini, shaken not stirred

100

The powerhouse of the cell

Mitochondria

100

This country in the Americas has more than 125,000 miles of coastline, the most of any country in the world

Canada

100

A slang term for Harvard’s freshman register gave the website its name

Facebook

200

Only US president who never lived in the White House

George Washington

200

The most expensive spice in the world, by weight

Saffron

200

The name of the narrator in “The Great Gatsby”

Nick Carrow

200

National Geographic says the site of this city is “the largest wetland in the Mediterranean”

Venice, Italy

200

In a song, Weird Al says, “I know a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who knows” him

Kevin Bacon

300

“An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” is a well-known phrase from this collection of 282 laws

The Code of Hammurabi

300

Fast food franchise with the largest number of restaurants in the world

Subway

300

For the equation 3x + 7 = 16, what is the value of x?

3

300

It’s the only country that borders both the Caspian sea and the Persian Gulf

Iran

300

Name of The Beatles’ debut album

Please Please Me

400

On July 11th, 1804 he gasped to his doctor, “This is a mortal wound”; he died the next day

Alexander Hamilton

400

The name of this man, who died in 1947, can be found on the Kentucky bourbon formerly known as Old Tub

Jim Beam

400

According to base pairing rules, adenine always pairs with thymine, and guanine always pairs with this

Cytosine

400

The only U.S. island allowed to use a possessive apostrophe

Martha's Vineyard

400

NFL team name that was inspired by a famous writer

The Baltimore Ravens derived their name from Edgar Allen Poe’s poem “The Raven”

500

Alexander Graham Bell co-invented the first of these devices, testing it on Civil War veterans with bullets still inside their bodies

Metal Detector

500

This practice officially began in Pakistan in 1977, 44 years after an amendment ended it in the U.S.

Prohibition

500

King Henry VIII had this many wives

6

500

It was once proposed that this state be called Deseret, meaning “land of honeybees”

Utah

500

Actor who voiced Darth Vader and The Lion King’s Mufasa

James Earl Jones

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