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An American football team is rewarded 3 points if they complete this method of scoring, which involves kicking the ball between 2 set posts.

What is a Field Goal?

100

This National Landmark is located in Arizona, featuring a mile-deep gorge carved by the Colorado River.

What is the Grand Canyon?

100

This television series infamously outpaced its source material, a book series by George R.R. Martin set in fictional medieval lands.

What is Game of Thrones?

100

Thomas Edison is often credited for the invention of the lightbulb, though the most credible source is actually this Serbian engineer.

Who is Nikola Tesla?

100

This individual served as the first President of the United States, and is featured on both the Quarter and Dollar bill.

Who is George Washington?

200

This legendary baseball player is nicknamed "The Great Bambino," and his trade from the Red Sox to the Yankees is credited for Boston's 86-year World Series drought.

Who is Babe Ruth?

200

This national park sits atop a volcano which consists of half the world's active geysers, the most famous being "Old Faithful." 

What is Yellowstone?

200

"Friends" favorite Joey Tribbiani lands a major role as "Dr. Drake Ramoray" in this show (which is parodied off of a real ongoing NBC series.

What is "Days of Our Lives?"

200

We all know the names of MOST shapes that have between 3 and 8 corners. But a shape with 7 corners is called a ________.

What is a Heptagon?

200

This individual is the first to have their jersey/shirt number retired league-wide in an American sport.

Who is Bill Russell?

300

This NBA role player 7 championship rings with 3 different teams, but was never his team's player. His trademark was as clutch shooting in key moments.

Who is Robert Horry?

300

This man-manipulated structure exhibits the faces of 4 American Presidential faces.

What is Mount Rushmore?

300

This "Dexter" character has become a multi-time internet sensation, and famously suspected the titular character of his violent deeds.

Who is Sgt. James Doakes (Doakes, Sgt. Doakes, etc.)?

300
Pluto was demoted from a Planet to THIS arguably semantic label in 2006.

What is a Dwarf Planet?

300

This individual is often falsely associated with the quote, "Let them eat cake," in response to the French Revolution.

Who is Marie Antoinette?

400

Recognized today as a businessman, this former boxer was knocked out by Muhammad Ali in 1974's "The Rumble in the Jungle."

Who is George Foreman?

400

Not considering sea level, this American mountain is the tallest in the world (yes, even taller than Everest!).

What is Mauna Kea?

400

Instead of a mainstream holiday celebrated in December, Seinfeld's George Castanza and his family celebrate this holiday with rituals such as the Aluminum Pole, Feats of Strength, and the Airing of Grievances. 

What is "Festivus?"

400

Glass is commonly misconceived to be this type of matter (solid, liquid, or gas).

What is a liquid?

400

This prominent 18th-century author wrote the classic novels "The Modern Prometheus" and "Frankenstein."

Who is Mary Shelley?

500

This sport was invented in Holyoke, MA in 1858 under the name "mintonette," and is featured twice in the summer Olympics: one event is indoors, and the other is outdoors.

What is volleyball?

500

According to ancient Lakota & Kiowa stories, this Wyoming butte sprung from the ground to rescue a group of boys from a pursuing, giant bear. The vertical columns on this structure represent its claw marks.

What is Devils Tower?

500

The Duffer Brothers intended to "kill off" this character in Season 1 of "Stranger Things," only to be deterred otherwise by the performance of their actor/actress.

Who is Steve Harrington?

500

Rather than only 5, scientific consensus identifies up to 33 of these biological systems.

What are senses?

500

Visiting the now-lost Tomb of Alexander the Great was a rite of passage for Ancient Leaders, until this prolific Emperor infamously broke Alexander's nose after kissing it.

Who is Augustus Caesar?

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