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100

What is the closest city to South Africa's Soweto?

Johannesburg

100

What national bulletin did J. Edgar Hoover initiate that is still in use today?

The Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list

100

What Andrew Lloyd Webber musical sees naïve singer Christine Daae seduced by a disfigured musical genius?

The Phantom of the Opera

100

What element did Pierre and Marie Curie discover in 1898?

radium

100

What domestic art has prairie points, wave panels and cathedral windows?

quilting

200

Which city's annual Fringe is the world's largest arts festival?

Edinburgh

200

Who was the first left-hander to serve two terms as U.S. president?

Bill Clinton

200

What nationality was Rembrandt?

Dutch

200

What valuable product is obtained from the sturgeon

caviar

200

What indoor sport did Marion Van Oosten Ladewig, inductee in the Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1984, excel in?

bowling

300

What is Latin America's northernmost nation?

Mexico

300

Who were the first Japanese warriors to be officially permitted to carry two swords, one long and one short?

Samurai

300

Who was famous for saying: "All you need to fly are lovely things and fairy dust"?

Peter Pan

300

What is at an average distance of 238,857 miles from the Earth?

The Moon

300

What conveyance did the Northwest Mounted Police use to reach remote outposts during winter?

dog sled

400

What is alternatively known as the Will Rogers Highway?

Route 66

400

What country let the European Union following a 1985 referendum?

Greenland

400

What treasure is said to be the subject of the Treasure Island map?

Captain Flint

400

What was the main method of food preservation used by the Incas to store their potatoes?

freeze drying

400

What three-letter word means the employees' side of the casino table?

pit

500

Which country contains Lake Assal, the lowest point on mainland Africa?

Djibouti

500

What was Paul Revere's occupation, besides midnight riding?

Silversmith

500

What musical is based on a series of children's book by P.L. Travers?

Mary Poppins

500

What does the computer term WORM stand for?

Write Once-Read Many

500

What decade were golf carts introduced in the U.S.?

1940s