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100

What are the colourful, outermost parts of a flower called?

What are petals?

100

This is the largest country.

What is Russia?

100

Ol' Blue Eyes

Who is Frank Sinatra?

100

88 x 23

What is 2,024?

100

This is Elton John's real name.

What is Reginald Kenneth Dwight?

200

Forget-Me-Nots are this color.

What is light blue?

200

This country has the most natural lakes.

What is Canada?

200

Nat King Cole had many hits but one in particular became his signature song, which his daughter mixed into a duet version in 1991; the song and album won several Grammy Awards in 1992.

What is Unforgettable?

200

How many seconds are in one day?

What is 86,400 seconds?

200

Kate Bush’s hit song which is also the title of a classic book by Emily Brontë.

What is Wuthering Heights?

300

This type of flower is depicted in a famous 1888 painting by Vincent Van Gogh.

What are sunflowers?

300

This U.S. state is home to no documented poisonous snakes.

What is Alaska?

300

Barry Manilow wrote this song after visiting Brazil.

What is Copacobana (At the Copa)?

300

What was the number 0 originally called?

What is Cipher?

Cipher comes from the Arabic word sifr meaning "empty". The first known use of the word zero was in 1598.

300

What song was not only banned by many U.S. radio stations, but also investigated by the FBI? 

A) Society's Child

B) Sympathy for the Devil

C) Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

D) Louie Louie

What is Louie Louie by The Kingsmen?

Jack Ely, who sang the hit tune, slurred the words quite a bit during recording. So rumors flew, and students passed fake lyrics around high schools and colleges. 

In a later interview, band members declared they never deviated from the original lyrics. However, their drummer admitted to dropping a very faintly heard f-bomb when he fumbled his drumstick. 

400

This is the name of the process of cutting away dead or overgrown branches, stems or flower-heads to encourage further growth of a plant.

What is pruning?

400

This present-day Italian city overlooks Mt. Vesuvius.

What is Naples?

400

Dean Martin displaced The Beatles in August 1964 with this song. 

What is Everybody Loves Somebody?

400

Lemniscate is the shape of what mathematical symbol?

What is Infinity?

The lemniscate is number 8 on its side. The word comes from the Latin word lemniscatus meaning "ribbon".

400

Who is the only musician to get credit on the record for the work they performed with The Beatles?

Billy Preston

500

This flower’s name comes from the Ancient Greek for ‘water jar’?

What is a hydrangea?

500

The Spanish Steps are located here.

Where is Rome, Italy?

500

This singer was known for his many hits with a western theme, such as "Mule Train", "High Noon" and the theme from 'Rawhide" even though he was not a Country & Western singer.

Frankie Laine

500

577.2 / 15.6

What is 37?

500

The band Lynyrd Skynyrd was named for a real person. Who was it named for?

Who is the band's high school P.E. teacher?