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100

This continent covers about 30% of the world's land area & has about 60% 0f its people

What is Asia?

100

The African bush species of this is the largest land mammal in the world

What is the elephant?

100

586 B.C.: Nebuchadnezzar burns this city's first temple

What is Jerusalem?

100

Running back Jackson or actress Derek

What is Bo?

100

"Pelican" (1992)

Who is John Grisham?

200

The USA's longest thermometer stretches 134 feet high, matching the record 134 degrees set in this California location

What is Death Valley?

200

In the names of cat breeds, this color follows "British" & Russian"

What is blue?

200

1871: the "Great Fire" of this Illinois City starts in a barn on De Koven Street

What is Chicago?

200

When functioning properly, "all systems are" this, meaning ready

What is go?

200

"Sematary" (1983)

Who is Stephen King?

300

This huge museum made up of 5 buildings, including the Czars' winter palace, became public property after 1917

What is the Hermitage?

300

Of teeth, nails, or beaks, the one turtles don't have

What are teeth?

300

1613: fire burns this city's Globe Theatre

What is London?

300

 It flows 405 miles to the Adriatic

What is the PO?

300

"Jurassic" (1990)

Who is Michael Crichton? 

400

Oklahoma's WinStar World this establishment has 500,000 square feet & 88 tables

What is a casino?

400

A 7-letter word for a dog of mixed or indeterminate ancestry

What is mongrel?

400

Circa 50 B.C.: This Egyptian city's library is torched (by Julius Caesar, some say)

What is Alexandria?

400

In a Kipling work, it comes between "Just" & "Stories"

What is So?

400

"Moreau" (1896)

Who is H.G. Wells?

500

2024 is the target date to complete the Square Kilometer Array, which will be the world's largest of these

What is a telescope?

500

At 18 feet in height, this tallest mammal could easily peek in a second-story window

What is a giraffe?

500

1871: the Hotel De Ville in this city is burned during the commune

What is Paris?

500

The innermost of Jupiter's 4 Galilean moons

Io

500

"Augie" (1953)

Who is Saul Bellow?

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