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How many children are in the von Trapp family in The Sound of Music?

Seven

100

Who was the first American in space?

Alan Shephard

100

In the United Kingdom, what is the day after Christmas Day called?

Boxing Day

100

What is the most common eye color in humans?

brown

100

What is the only letter of the alphabet not to appear in the name of any US state?

q

100

Where were the Olympics invented?

Greece

200

What was the first film to release a soundtrack?

Snow White (in 1944)

200

What year did the Cold War end?

1989

200

What is the world's most earthquake-prone country

japan

200

What tree do acorns come from?

oak

200

What is the rarest M&M color?

brown

200

How many sides does a trapezoid have?

4

300

What is Scarlett  O'Hara's first name in Gone with the Wind?

Katie

300

What was Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden name?

Roosevelt (she and FDR were distant cousins)

300

What is the name of the largest desert in the world?

Sahara

300

What is the hardest known natural material?

diamond

300

What was the first soft drink to be taken into space?

Coca Cola

300

What is the name of the fairy in Peter Pan?

Tinkerbell

400

Who starred in the original version of A Star is Born?

Janet Gaynor and Fredric March

400

What was the name of the stele that led to the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics?

Rosetta Stone

400

What is the only continent without an active volcano?

Australia

400

What is the largest bone in the human body?

Femur

400

What is the national animal of Scotland?

unicorn

400

What is the largest planet in the solar system

jupiter

500

In Disney's Cinderella, what are the names of Cinderella's two stepsisters?

Anastasia and Drizella

500

Which president served the shortest term in office?

William Henry Harrison (he died of an illness two months into his presidency)

500

What is the world's biggest island?

greenland

500

What is the fin on the backs of fish and some whales and dolphins called?

Dorsal fin

500

What was the original purpose of the tiny pocket in jeans?

To store pocket watches

500

What are the only mammals that can fly?

Bats

600

How many Oscars has Meryl Streep been nominated for?

21 (she's won three times)

600

Which country was the first to give women the right to vote?

New Zealand (in 1893)

600

How many countries are in Africa?

54

600

How many elements are in the periodic table?

118

600

What is a cow-bison hybrid called?

A beefalo

600

Who wrote a famous diary while hiding from Nazis in Amsterdam?

Anne Frank

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