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100

This type of tree is facing extinction in the US, and has been nearly wiped out by a disease that its Chinese counterpart is immune to.

What is the American Chesnut?

100

This person is a professor at Western Kentucky University who teaches REC 320.

Who is Dr. Ronald Ramsing?

100

Name of the ocean surrounding Madagascar.

What is the Indian Ocean

100

This person invented the electric light.

Who is Thomas Edison?

100

This word is the most common word in the English Language.

What is The?

200

This is the third most populous country in the world.

What is the United States?

200

This person used to be a Park Ranger for Death Valley National Park and currently teaches at Western Kentucky University.

Who is Dr. Knackmaus?

200

This area of the world is frigid, often reaching well below -40C, although people still live here.

What is Siberia?

200

This bone is the largest in the human body.

What is the femur?

200

This book is read by all American School children, and includes a dog.

What is Where The Red Fern Grows?

300
The plane that dropped the nuclear bombs over Japan during World War II

What is a B-29 Superfortress bomber?

300

This person had one of the shortest stints as Prime Minister of England, lasting less time than a head of iceberg lettuce.

Who is Lizz Truss?

300

This area of desert is often called the largest desert in the world, and borders oceans on 2 sides. Large animals such as camels are often used in this region.

What is the Sahara Desert?

300

This star is the closest to our own sun, only 4.2 light years away.

What is Proxima Centauri?

300

The 3 major styles of literary citation used in academia.

What are APA, MLA, and Chicago?

400

A bird native to the northern part of the US with a distinct warble. The bird is black and white with striking red eyes, and lives in lakes in the state of Minnesota.

What is a common loon?

400

This person is the current governor of the state of Georgia.

Who is Brian Kemp?

400

This naturally karst region of this country has some of the most spectacular mountain ranges in the world with large limestone spires that reach thousands of feet in the air.

What is South China?

400

This book, published in 1962, warned the public about the dangerous use of pesticides in agriculture, and revolutionized the agriculture industry.

What is Silent Spring by Rachel Carson?

400

This type of English is heavily accented and includes double negatives, alliteration, metaphors, and insults that take a moment to understand.

What is Southern American English?

500

The speed of light (in m/s)

What is 299,792,458m/s?

500

This person was President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and is famed for getting stuck in a bathtub.

Who is William Howard Taft?
500

The name of the region of mountains which in 1921 the coal miners of Logan County, West Virginia, rebelled.

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

500

In the study of microbiology, there are 5 major types of bacteria. Of these five types, E. Coli bacteria falls under this category.

What is rod-shaped bacteria?

500

This book, first translated to English in the 14th century CE, has been labeled one of the most controversial books ever written. Modernly, about 2.5 billion people read this book.

What is the Bible?

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