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100
You visit one of these for cash. Three letters -- what do they stand for?
Automated Teller Machine (ATM)
100
Which film trilogy made this door in a New Zealand hillside famous?
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What is The Lord of the Rings? (accept The Hobbit)
100
In this fish, the female deposits her eggs into a pouch on the male, who carries them for weeks and then gives birth to the young.
What is a seahorse?
100
The world's most expensive spice by weight. Every flower yields just three threads, and they are picked by hand.
What is saffron?
100
Its mascot is a figure built from a stack of white tires -- and it also awards stars to the world's best restaurants.
What is Michelin?
100
Every other nation on Earth flies a four-sided flag. This Himalayan country's is two stacked triangles.
What is Nepal?
200
The American space agency.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
200
Tourists queue at this wall in a London railway station because of which film series?
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What is Harry Potter?
200
Squirrels and sugar gliders only glide. These are the only mammals capable of true powered flight.
What are bats?
200
The "wasabi" served in most North American sushi restaurants is usually this root, coloured green.
What is horseradish?
200
The longtime slogan "Melts in your mouth, not in your hands."
What is M&M's?
200
Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, rises entirely within this country.
What is Tanzania?
300
Strap on the tank and go diving.
Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA)
300
Name the film that made this dashboard display famous.
What is Back to the Future?
300
This Australian mammal lays eggs and hunts with a soft, leathery bill full of electroreceptors.
What is the platypus?
300
Worcestershire sauce is not vegetarian, and these fermented fish are why.
What are anchovies?
300
Since the 1970s this beauty giant's mass-market division has told customers "Because You're Worth It."
What is L'Oreal?
300
Split by the Bosphorus, this city of roughly 15 million is the world's largest with land on two continents.
What is Istanbul?
400
Point one at the cat and it loses its mind.
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (Laser)
400
Which film turned this house in Winnetka, Illinois into a tourist stop?
What is Home Alone?
400
An octopus has two of these serving its gills, plus one more serving the rest of its body -- and that last one stops beating whenever the animal jets through the water.
What is a heart?
400
It comes from the cacao bean, but contains none of the cocoa solids that give dark chocolate its colour.
What is white chocolate?
400
This consumer-goods giant owns Tide, Gillette and Pampers.
What is Procter & Gamble?
400
This landlocked South American country runs two capitals: one seats the government, the other the supreme court.
What is Bolivia? (La Paz and Sucre)
500
The little "prove you're not a robot" test you fail three times a week.
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA)
500
This rock-cut facade in Jordan doubled as an ancient temple in which film?
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What is Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?
500
Flamingos are not born pink, and one fed the wrong diet stays white. So where does the pink come from?
What is their food? (Carotenoid pigments from the algae and brine shrimp they eat)
500
Add fresh pineapple to this jiggly dessert and it will never set -- though canned pineapple works fine.
What is Jell-O? (gelatin)
500
Nestle owns KitKat everywhere on Earth except the United States, where this Pennsylvania chocolate maker has made it under a perpetual license since 1970.
What is Hershey?
500
Overseas territories stretching from French Polynesia to the Indian Ocean give this European country more time zones than any other.
What is France? (12 time zones, briefly 13)