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Location of the 2021 Olympic Games. (Extra 200 points if you can name one of the five new sports included in these games!)
Tokyo. Baseball/softball, Surfing, Skateboarding, Sport Climbing, and KARATE!
In 2009 this U.S. president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people"
Barack Obama
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria marked the beginning of...
World War I.
I am wet when drying. What am I?
A towel.
VNM
Vietnam
This American swimmer is the most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 Olympic medals. (Name signature stroke, 50 extra points.)
Michael Phelps. Butterfly
In 1962, these three scientists won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the crystal structure of DNA. (2/3 names sufficient.) (Extra 100 points) What experimental technique did they use for this discovery.
Watson, Crick, Wilkins
"Little Boy" and "Fat Man" are the names of two (blank) dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. They are the result of something called the "(blank) Project."
Nuclear Weapons. "Manhattan Project".
I nose.
IDN (or INA)
Indonesia
The fastest man alive. (200 extra points if you can name his his two main track events.)
Usain Bolt. 100m. 200m.
German Scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his Photoelectric Effect (explain 50 extra points) in 1921. However he is most famous for his General Theory of ... (50 extra points).
Albert Einstein
In 1945, this leader led the Viet Minh to take over the city of Hanoi and declare himself as president of a new Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
What has hands, but is not flesh, bone, or blood?
A clock.
IRI
Islamic Republic of Iran
In the 2016 Olympic Games, with a penalty kick, Neymar Jr. secured this country's first even gold medal in Men's soccer.
Brazil.
In 2014 this woman became the youngest to ever win a Nobel prize (she won the Peace Prize). She was shot by for speaking out against the Taliban's ban on educating women.
Malala Yousafzai
On 9/1/1939, Hitler invaded what country. This is considered the "first event" that started WWII.
Poland
What goes away when you stand up?
Your lap.
KSA
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
This american gymnast won 5 Olympic gold medals in Rio 2016, 4 gold, 1 bronze.
Simone Biles.
The Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 was awarded to the Catholic Nun and Missionary Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu. What is her common name?
Mother Teresa
(1) This line marked the division between N/S Vietnam in 1954. This line was the division between North and South Korea before NK invaded SK in 1950.
17th Parallel. 38th Parallel.
You answer me although I never ask you questions. What am I?
A telephone.
PRK
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)