Science and Nature
Literature and Film
Geography
Television and Movies
Language and Words
100

This phobia is believed to be the most common phobia.

What is Arachnophobia?

100

This 1950 film featured the famous line "Alright, Mr. Demille, I'm ready for my close-up."

What is Sunset Boulevard?

100

This is the largest lake lying completely inside Canada.

What is Great Bear Lake?

100

This TV show, which starred an actress of direct Maltese descent, was popular in the 1990s.

What was Boy Meets World?

100

Lockiophobia is the fear of this event.

What is Childbirth?

200

These powerful natural events are on average half an inch wide.

What are Lightning Bolts?

200

This American horror novelist framed his royalty check from "The Shawshank Redemption" and sent it to the film’s director.

Who was Stephen King?

200

The historic city of Bam is located in this country.

What is Iran?

200

This famous 1970s TV character was the first to get an abortion on television.

Who was Maude Findlay?

200

This Latin term means "swift plunderer."

What is Velociraptor?

300

This is the number of natural satellites our largest gas giant has.

What is 79?

300

This movie featured Vianne, who opens a chocolate shop in a small French village.

What is Chocolat?

300

The Sphinx Observatory is located in this country.

What is Switzerland?

300

This actor got his start playing the first openly gay nationally broadcast TV character in the late 1970s.

Who was Billy Crystal?

300

This word is used to describe someone with an extremely unpleasant smell.

What is an olid?

400

This language is responsible for most terminology used to describe volcanic events.

What is Hawaiian?

400

This silent film star wrote and starred in the 1922 version of "Robin Hood."

Who was Douglas Fairbanks?

400

This city was originally called Le Fleur's Bluff.

What is Jackson?

400

This SNL cast member provided the voice for "Waldo" in Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher" video.

Who was Phil Hartman?

400

This word describes a pitch in baseball that is hit for a home run.

What is a Gopher Pitch?

500

This shark has more gills than any other discovered so far.

What is the Sevengill Shark?

500

This Spanish painter is often referred to as both the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

Who was Francisco Goya?

500

This South American city is laid out in the shape of a puma.

What is Cusco, Peru?

500

This soap opera aired from 1952 until 2009.

What was Guiding Light?

500

This is the name of the eon we are living in.

What is the Phanerozoic Eon?