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100

What was Eleanor Roosevelt's first name?

Anna

100

What is the name of the system of channels and bridges the Romans built to bring water into their city?

Aqueducts

100

What state is north of Colorado?

Wyoming

100

What is the driver of a train called?

Engineer

100

What is a baby whale called?

A calf.

200

What was the name of Sacagawea's first son?

Jean Baptiste Charbonneau (nicknamed Pompey)

200

Who invented writing?

Sumerians (Sumer, Mesopotamia)

200

What is the Easternmost country in South America?

Brazil

200

What is the fastest train in the world?

Shanghai Maglev: 267 mph

200

Which animals use their eyes to help them swallow food?

Frogs

300

Which famous scientist was born on the 300th anniversary of the death of another famous scientist named Galileo?

Stephen Hawking

300

Where and when were the first Olympics held?

776 BC, in Olympia, or Koroibos, Greece

300

Which country is southeast of Burundi?

Tanzania

300

What is the slowest express train in the world?

Glacier Express, the Swiss Alps

300

Name three examples of ruminants (animals with more than one stomach).

Cows, sheep, goats, antelope, deer, giraffe, wildebeast
400

Which journalist pretended to be insane in 1887 so she would be sent to an insane asylum where she could report on how people were being treated?

Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran)

400

Who was the Greek goddess of agriculture, mother of Persephone?

Demeter (Ceres in Rome)

400

If you traveled from Multan to Kandahar, which countries would you have seen?

Pakistan and Afghanistan

400

What does TGV stand for?

Train a Grande Vitesse

400

A group of these animals is known as an ambush or a streak.

Tigers

500

Name two of the founding members of the Society of Anonymous Painters, Sculptors, and Printers.

Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro

500

What was a griot?

Storytellers and entertainers in Ancient Africa

500

What lake is only a few miles south of Peera Peera Poolanna Lake?

Lake Umaroona, Australia

500
Where and when was the oldest metro system built?

The London Underground in 1863

500

Which big cat species can not roar?  They can still purr.

Cheetahs

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