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Main entry pointfor tourists from California is tO THis city just south of San Diego ?

Tijuana

200

The white part of an apple turns brown due to exposure to this gas ?

Oxygen

200

U.S. School kids began reciting this as a part of Columbus Day ?

The Pledge of Allegience

200

Vancouver metro area is home to more than half this province's 4.5 million people ?

British Columbia

200

Around 420, Irish raids on Britain carried off corn and cows, were led by this future Irish super Saint ?

St Patrick

200

Hemingway's classic short story 'The snows of this place ?

Kilimanjaro

400

Vast grassland from central Europe to Manchuria is called this one sylable word from Russia ?

Steppe

400

3 letter name of the 1st drug approved by the FDA for prolonging the life of HIV patients ?

AZT

400

In the 1859 Pig War, the United States and this country almost began a war with each other ?

Great Britain

400

Chile & Columbia both use this currency ?

The Peso

400

These non-angles came to Briton at the invitation of king Vortigen who was fighting the Picts ?

Saxons

400

This executive chairman & former Disney CEOs memoir?

The ride of a lifetime

600

Name of the famous gambling city in China

Macao

600

Isolated females of this largest living lizard, a type of monitor, sometimes may reproduce without male fertilzation ?

Komodo Dragon

600

Know as the Pathfinder, this soldier-explorer mapped most of the Oregon Trail in the 1840s with Kit Csrson

John C. Freemont

600

This country, mostly surrounded by India, also shares a border with Myanmar ?

Bangladesh

600

Atilla raided his wayinto the Balkans and was stopped at this pass, where the Persians were stopped in 400 BC ?

Thermopylae

600

This Italian playwrights 'six characters in search of an author' ?

Pierandello

800

Remember Alberts title, you wiil know that Monaco is not a monarchy but this entity ?

Principality

800

The hardest tissue in the body covers the crown of a tooth ?

Enamel

800

Term for the limited allocation of goods on the homefront for gasoline and coffee ?

Rationing

800

!000 years ago this city outside of Russia, Had the title of 'Mother of the Rus Cities?

Kiev

800

What now country, was led by Emperor GUPTA, battled the huns?

India

800

The trilogy includes 'My Antonio"

Willa Cather

1000

Eritrea's vital region along this sea includes the major ports of Massawa and Assab ?

The Red Sea

1000

Procyon is the brightest star is in the contellation also known as ?

Canis Minor

1000

In 1892, John Muir co-founded this organization dedicated to protecting the great outdoors ?

The Sierra Club

1000

This passage nammed for an explorer separates South America fro Antartica ?

Francis Drake (The Drake Passage)

1000

In 439 the Vandals captured this African city and attacked other groups around the Meditean ?

Carthage


1000

All of the novels in Frank Herbert's Sci-Fi series began with this 1965 novel ?

 Dune

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