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100

Which ocean is saltiest, the Atlantic or Pacific?

Atlantic

100

What Al Pacino movie averages 1.8 swear words per minute?

Scarface

100

Who is known as the "Moses of Her People" for escorting more than 300 slaves to freedom?

Harriet Tubman

100

Where did the story "White Fang" take place?

Yukon Territory (Canada)

100

What does a kissing gate keep from passing through?

Livestock

200

What two Ivy League universities are located in New York State?

Columbia and Cornell

200

What TV competition goes by the abbreviation SYTYCD?

So You Think You Can Dance

200

What narcotic substance caused a series of wars between England and China in the 19th century?

Opium

200

What hard-living novelist helped popularize the daiquiri?

Ernest Hemingway

200

How many legs does a butterfly have?

6

300

What Moroccan city is nicknamed the "Red City"?

Marrakech

300

What infomercial star promoted Mighty Putty, OxiClean, and Orange Glo?

Billy Mays

300

What sort of accessory is a bowler, fez, or trilby?

Hat

300

What is the title of Tony Kushner's two-part play about the AIDS crisis?

Angels in America

300

What do solar flares cause in the northern hemisphere?

Aurora borealis (northern lights)

400

Name one of the two U.S. states with the most nuclear power plants in operation?

Illinois or Pennsylvania

400

What country gave karaoke to the world?

Japan in the 70's

400

What were dentures fashioned from the teeth of Napoleonic War dead commonly called?

"Waterloo teeth"

400

What legendary poet couldn't read his poem at John F. Kennedy's inauguration because his eyesight failed him in the bright sun?

Robert Frost -instead he recited a different poem from memory

400

What kind of super-social shark is known for its distinctive, yellowish-brown coloration?

Lemon Shark

500

What country is home to Corfu, Corinth, and Rhodes?

Greece

500

A floating candy bar of what brand clears the pool of swimmers in the film Caddyshack?

Baby Ruth

500

What ship was sunk in the Pacific in the Pacific in 1945, four days after dropping of the atomic bomb at Tinian Island? 

The USS Indianapolis

500

Raskolnikov is the anti-hero of what classic novel?

Crime and Punishment

500

What do you call a rainbow that appears at night?

Moonbow

600

The 1883 eruption of what produced the loudest sound in recorded history?

Kraktoa

600

Who promoted psychic services in a Jamaican accent on late-night infomercials?

Miss Cleo

600

Who won the popular vote for the U.S. presidency in 2000 by more than half a million votes?

Al Gore - George W. Bush won the electoral vote and presidency.

600

Who wrote the trilogy His Dark Materials?

Philip Pullman

600

What is the deepest point of the ocean 

Mariana Trench

700

What Japanese city is home to a world famous snow festival and shares its name with a popular beer?

Sapporo

700

In the Karate Kid, the boys who beat up Daniel belong to what dojo?

Cobra Kai

700

What type of structure did Alexander the Great build on Pharos, in the middle of Alexandria's harbor?

A lighthouse

700

What 17th-century Spanish novel spawned the expressions: "a wild-goose chase," "to smell a rat" and "born with a silver spoon in his mouth"?

Don Quixote

700

What is the common name of the plant that blooms only once every 4-10 years with a flower that smells like putrefying meat?

Corpse plant

800

What was the name of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant that was the site of a nuclear disaster in April 1986?

Chernobyl