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100

The tallest grass on earth.

What is bamboo?

100

The group assigned to protect the president proceeds through this door meant for delivery people and other help.

What is Secret Service Entrance?

100

This area was known as the "land between two rivers" and was the "cradle of civilization."

What is Mesopotamia?

100

Water buffalo milk is used to make this cheese and Italy exports 40,000 tons a year of it.

What is mozarella?

100

In 1996, US astronaut, Shannon Lucid, made this jiggly treat for her associates on the space station, Mir.

What is Jell-o?

200

This oath, taken by doctors, is named after an Ancient Greek Physician.

What is the Hippocratic Oath?

200

The oldest pro baseball association merges with Woodrow Wilson's pet project.

What is the National League of Nations?

200

The system of class levels used within Hindu cultures.

What is the Caste System?


200

This rum drink hailing from New Orleans' French Quarter has its own glass of the same name.

What is the Hurricane?

200

Snakes have no arms or legs but can have 600 of these bones in their flexible spines.

What is vertebrae?

300

This element is the most abundant in the universe.

What is hydrogen?


300

A 1940 way to say "carrying a gun" becomes a measurement of temperature and humidity.

What Packing Heat Index?

300

This man led the Mongols to take over China.

Who is Genghis Khan?

300

This Asian sauce is made by fermenting boiled legumes and roasted wheat. 

What is soy sauce?

300
In 2010 they became the first Scandinavian band to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Who is ABBA?

400

This part of the human body serves the purpose of maintaining balance.

What are the ears?

400

American daisy with dark center that was a leading US suffragette.

What is Black-Eyed Susan B. Anthony?

400

This code of law was signed by King John of England after he was pressured by the Parliament.

What is the Magna Carta?

400

The original type of this almond flavored liquor comes from Saronno, Italy.

What is Amaretto?

400

The moon has a Sea of Tranquility and a Sea of this, a synonym of tranquility.

What is Serenity?

FUN FACT: The Sea of Tranquility was where the first humans on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11, touched down in 1969.

500
Where is the largest desert on earth?

What is Antarctica? (It is twice the size of the Sahara Desert)

500

Mouselike boy in an E.B. White story traveling through the heavens as Ursa Minor

What is Stuart Little Dipper?

500

This empress of Mexico was a first cousin of Queen Victoria.

Who is Carolota? She was the empress of Mexico for 23 years!

500

When it comes to steak, try this cut from just in front of the rump; it's tops!

What is sirloin?

500

This martial art is said to have been inspired by the slow sinuous movements of a snake. 

What Tai Chi?