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100

The French newspaper Le Monde translates as the...?

The World

100

What name is given to a cooking procedure in which alcohol is added to a hot pan to create a burst of flames?

Flambe

100

What is the only borough of NYC that is not on an island?

The Bronx

100

What name is given to the Celtic language of Scots or Irish people?

Gaelic

100

Which English novelist and social critic wrote "Great Expectations" and "David Copperfield" ?

Charles Dickens

200

The building in Washington DC in which the United States Congress meets is called the...?

The Capitol

200

Natural vanilla flavoring primarily comes from the dried and cured fruits of the Vanilla planifolia - to which group of flowering plants does it belong

Orchid

200

A word coined in 1868, the opposite of an Utopia is called a what?

Dystopia

200

What kind of birds would you find in a gaggle?

Geese

200

An English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections who wrote about fictional detective Hercule Poirot?

Agatha Christie

300

The first pop stars to appear in Madame Tussaud's where the...?

The Beatles

300

What is a popular American breakfast dish consisting of finely julienned potatoes that have been fried?

Hashbrowns

300

According to the bible, the three wise men were Gaspar, Balthazar and who?

Melchior

300

James Dean died during the filming of which film in 1955?

Giant

300

Who is the author of "The Hobbit" and the "Lord of the Rings"?

J. R. R. Tolkien

400

The Arthur Miller play which uses the witch trials of Salem to comment on the McCarthy witch hunts is the...?

The Crucible

400

What type of meat is used in the traditional Italian dish Osso buco?

Veal (veal shank)

400

Used in English, often in legal terms, what is the Latin word for 'elsewhere'

Alibi

400

Which fruit is affected by a grey type of fungus commonly known as "Noble Rot"

Grapes

400

Who declined the 1964 Nobel Prize for literature?

Jean-Paul Sarte

500

A sacerdotal person would likely be studying to join the...?

The Priesthood

500

Allium cepa is a perennial herb belonging to the Liliaceae family and one of the worlds most used foods - by what name is it better known?

Onion

500

In the Simpsons, what is the full first name of the only son of Homer and Marge?

Bartholomew

500

If someone said they were from Hellas - what country would they be from?

Greece
500

What instrument did Sherlock Holmes play?

Violin

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