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100

The world’s largest island that is not a continent.

What is Greenland?

100

The largest mammal on Earth.

What is the blue whale?

100

Katniss Everdeen is the main character of this series.

What is The Hunger Games?

100

Frozen rain that falls in balls or lumps.


What is hail?

100

I have keys but no locks, space but no room. What am I?


What is a keyboard?

200

This country has the most time zones.

What is France?

200

The board game of cribbage ends when someone gets this many points.

What is 121?

200

Charlotte saves Wilbur in this classic novel.

What is Charlotte’s Web?

200

The eye of a hurricane is usually this.

What is calm?

200

What gets wetter the more it dries?

What is a towel?

300

This canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

What is the Panama Canal?

300

The only even prime number.


What is 2?

300

Bilbo Baggins is the title character of this novel.


What is The Hobbit?

300

This instrument measures air pressure.

What is a barometer?

300

The more you take away from me, the larger I become.

What is a hole?

400

 This country has coastlines on both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

What is Canada?

400

The longest river in the world according to most modern measurements.

What is the Nile River?

400

The author of the Harry Potter book series.

Who is J. K. Rowling?

400

Lightning heats the surrounding air, producing this sound.

What is thunder?

400

What has one eye but cannot see?

What is a needle?

500

 This river flows through Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade.

What is the Danube River?

500

 This Shakespeare play includes the line, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

What is Hamlet?

500

This author writes horror books that are usually made into movies. Books and movies such as Shining, Pet Cemetery, The Stand, Cujo and many more. 

Who is Stephen King?

500

This scale is commonly used to classify tornado strength in North America.

What is the EF- Scale (EF0 to EF5 Enhanced Fujita Scale).

500

The more of me there is, the less you see.

What is darkness?

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