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On 6 February 2023, an earthquake struck those two countries.

Turkey and Syria

100

She is known for pioneering research on radioactivity and discovering polonium and radium. She is the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.

Marie Curie

100

An observation tower in Seattle is an iconic landmark that was built for the 1962 World's Fair. The name consists of two words – "the empty area outside Earth's atmosphere" and "a thin metal pin, used in sewing".

The Space Needle


100

His famous plays include As You Like It, King Lear, and Macbeth.

William Shakespeare

100

Most houses in Paraguay don’t have these. Instead, people clap their hands.

Doorbells

200

Eurovision Song Contest takes place in which city this year?

Liverpool

200

The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, she was the last monarch of the House of Tudor.

Queen Elizabeth I

200

It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC. This building has housed some of the most famous and influential people in the world since 1800.

The White House

200

He commanded the Continental Army during the American Revolution (1775–83) and presided over the convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution.

George Washington

200

What is the traditional pattern on a kilt?

Tartan

300

Where will King Charles III be crowned on May 6?

Westminster Abbey

300

She was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean who disappeared while attempting to become the first woman to complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937.

Amelia Earhart

300

This medieval Catholic cathedral, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, is considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. In 2019, a fire destroyed the cathedral's roof and toppled its spire.

Notre-Dame

300

This person (336–323 BC) created a vast empire that stretched from Macedonia to Egypt and from Greece to part of India.

Alexander the Great

300

Which continent is the most linguistically diverse in the world?

Africa - The continent is home to anywhere from 800 to 1,500 of the world’s languages.

400

How old was the oldest person in the world, a French nun, Sister Andre at the time of her death?

118

400

This woman helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955.

Rosa Parks

400

This chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the pope in Vatican City, is also famous for its frescoes that decorate the interior.

The Sistine Chapel

400

This Serbian-American inventor is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.

Nikola Tesla

400

Awa Odori Festival, a dance festival, is held during the Obon-Week (the week when the spirits of the deceased are believed to visit the world) in which country?

Japan

500

This European country joined the eurozone on January 1, 2023, and became the 20th country to do so.

Croatia

500

Her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature.

Harper Lee

500

This skyscraper in New York City, built between 1928 and 1930, shares the name of an automobile manufacturer. 

Chrysler Building

500

His novels include A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952).

Ernest Hemingway

500

How many islands are there in the Caribbean?

Over 7,000

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