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100

This household pet can sense your feelings by smelling your sweat.

What is a dog?

100

In 2013, two men climbed this mountain without any permits or equipment, paraglided off of it, and kayaked into the Indian Ocean while the Nepalese army chased them. 

What is Mount Everest?

100

If this stopped spinning, then everything on the planet not tied down to bedrock would shoot to the left at 1,100 miles per hour.

What is the earth?

100

It would take someone nine days and 14 hours to watch every episode of this animated series—about a family of yellow people living in Springfield—back to back.

What is The Simpsons?

100

The probability of you drinking a glass of water containing a molecule of water that also passed through this prehistoric animal is almost 100%—in other words, drinking its pee.

What is a dinosaur?

200

This animal hates the sound of running water so much that it will build a dam around speakers that are playing the sound of running water.

What is the beaver?

200

This jungle cat's roar is so loud, it can be heard up to two miles away and is as loud as a jet airplane taking off.

What is a tiger?

200

This TV channel, famous for Spongebob Squarepants, iCarly, and its annual Kids Choice Awards, started in 1977, was originally called Pinwheel, and had no commercials until 1984.

What is Nickelodeon?

200

Police officers in Bangkok, Thailand are forced to wear armbands depicting this bow-adorned cartoon kitty as a badge of shame for minor infractions.

What is Hello Kitty?

200

This terrifying dinosaur, famously depicted in the Jurassic Park movies as being quick, lethal hunters, were actually only the size of turkeys.

What is the velociraptor?

300

The sinking of this ship—probably the most famous of all time—could have been avoided if the captain had been able to find the key to the locker that held the binoculars.

What is the Titanic?

300

This animal uses its eyeballs to swallow. It swallows its prey whole and their eyeballs sink down into their mouth and push the food down its throat.

What is a frog?

300

The Library of Congress has archived every single one of these from every single user since 2010—something that President Trump is notorious for.

What are tweets?

300

A human would have to eat around 300 hamburgers a day in order to eat the equivalent of what this tiny, long-beaked bird needs to eat to survive.

What is the hummingbird?

300

Right before the Nazis invaded Paris, the creators of this lovable monkey fled the city on bicycles with their artwork.

Who is Curious George?

400

If you count the number of chirps this insect makes for 15 seconds, and then add 37, you'll have the outside temperature. 

What is the cricket?

400

While Americans use these to celebrate the 4th of July, the ancient Chinese used them to ward off evil spirits.

What are fireworks?

400

Among first world countries—America, France, England, etc.—26% of adults are unable to use one of these.

What is a computer? 

400

You know how there's a pack of dogs and a murder of crows and a colony of ants? Well, the word for a group of this animal (usually found in NYC subways) is called a mischief.

What is the rat?

400

This super duper famous theme park used to have a "Wizard of Bras" a tour guide that would take you through the history of women's underwear.

What is Disneyland?

500

This fairly common weather phenomenon can heat the air around it to over 50,000 degrees—five times hotter than the surface of the sun.

What is lightning?

500

In an original, unpublished draft of this Roald Dahl novel about a boy who wins a chocolate factory, Mike Teevee's name was originally Herpes Trout.

What is Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?

500

If an American male is at least seven feet tall, and is between in the ages of 20 and 40, there is a 17% chance he plays this sport professionally.

What is basketball?

500

There is a prize of 50,000 British pounds for whoever gets clear picture evidence of this mythical lake monster.

What is the Loch Ness Monster?

500

There has been an officially appointed Wizard of this country since 1990. Hint: It's right next to Australia, and it's where they filmed The Lord of the Rings.

What is New Zealand?

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