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100

The most stolen grocery item, sometimes sold in wheel form.

What is cheese?

100
This ship came to the aid of the RMS Titanic and rescued 705 people from the wreckage.

What is the RMS Carpathia?

100

This country has San Jose as its capital and largest city.

What is Costa Rica?
100

This city is the capital of the United States.

What is Washington D.C.?
100

This author of The Giving Tree was also a Grammy winning songwriter.

Who was Shel Silverstein?

200

This fruit is the product of drying a plum under the sun.

What is a prune?

200

This year marked the sinking of the RMS Titanic.

What happened in 1912?

200

This is the only letter not used in the name of any of the 50 US states.

What is the letter 'Q'?

200

This city is the capital of India.

What is New Delhi?

200

This female author wrote Frankenstein during a sleepover with friends on a dare.

Who was Mary Shelley?

300

The country that drinks the most coffee per capita (per person).

What is Finland?

300

This Italian cruise ship ran aground in 2012.

What is the Costa Concordia?

300

This is the fourth state of matter, not solid, liquid or gas.

What is plasma?

300

This city is the capital of the modern-day country of Greece.

What is Athens?

300

This son of Odysseus clashes with suitors in The Odyssey.

Who was Telemachus?

400

This country invented the donut.

What is the Netherlands?

400

This explorer discovered the wreckage of the RMS Titanic in 1985.  

Who was Robert Ballard?

400

This species of shark is the largest currently alive, thought to grow some 60 feet.

What is the whale shark?

400

This city is the capital of Chile.

What is Santiago?

400

This 1974 novel was the first published novel written by Stephen King.

What is Carrie?

500

The man who founded Taco Bell in the 1960s.

Who was Glen Bell?

500

This ship, found in 2020, brought Ernest Shackleton's crew back to safety.

What is Endurance?

500

This element of the periodic table has an atomic weight of 1.00794.

What is hydrogen?

500

This city is the capital city of Cyprus.

What is Nicosia?

500

This street is well known as the residence of Sherlock Holmes.

What is Baker Street?

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