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200

The capital city of Canada

What is Ottawa?

200

NAACP

What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

200

This planet is named for the fleet-footed Roman messenger god, which has the shortest orbit around the sun.

What is Mercury?

200

This mythical creature is featured on the flag of Wales. 

What is a dragon?

200

Mary Mallon was famously an asymptomatic carrier of this disease.

What is Typhoid fever?

400

About 20,000 of these immigrants built the transcontinental railroad system.

Who are Chinese

400

IBM

What is International Business Machine

400

The number of planets in our solar system NOT named after a god or goddess. 

What is one? (Earth) 

400

Argentina borders 5 countries: Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, __________, and Paraguay.

 What is Bolivia

400

When used in the kitchen, sodium bicarbonate is more commonly known as this. 

What is Baking soda?

600

Laws enacted by southern states to keep free blacks segregated?

What are Jim Crow laws

600

NYSE

What is the New York Stock Exchange

600

Ganymede, the largest moon in our solar system, belongs to this planet.

What is Jupiter?

600

How long is the Great Wall of China?

What is about 5,500 miles long

600

In 1885, Louis Pasteur developed a vaccine for this viral disease.

What is Rabies? 

800

What did the 14th amendment of the constitution do?

It defined citizenship and citizen rights, guaranteeing protections for anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. – such as former slaves.

800

SARS

What is Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

800

These two planets in our solar system are known as "Ice Giants" 

What is Uranus and Neptune? 

800

Lemurs, a type of primate, are native to this island nation.

What is Madagascar?

800

The most abundant chemical element in the Universe.

What is hydrogen? 

1000

There are only three city-states in the world: Vatican City, Monaco, and ________

What is Singapore?

1000

PCR (as in a COVID test)

What is Polmerase Chain Reaction

1000

This planet is currently the furthest planet from the Sun. 

What is Neptune? 

1000

The name of the passenger train service created in 1883 that connected Paris and Constantinople. 

What is The Orient Express?

1000

A modulator-demodulator is a hardware device better known by this term. 

What is a modem?

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