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Researchers recently found that this animal communicates with a complex "phonetic alphabet." This large ocean mammal is the largest animal on earth.

What is a whale?

100

The 2024 Summer Olympics will be held in this European city that is also the home to the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, and EuroDisney.

What is Paris?

100

Michael Jordan is most famous for his basketball career. However, in 1994, he retired from basketball and joined a minor league team in this very American sport in which a ball is hit with a bat and caught with a glove.

What is baseball?
100

This sandbox game was released by Mojang in 2011. In this game, players explore, construct, and create in cube-based, virtual environment. It an be played in Survival, Creative, Hardcore, or Adventure Mode.

What is Minecraft?

100

Perhaps the most famous fruit in history was eaten by these two people in the Garden of Eden. 

Who are Adam and Eve?

200

On Thursday, this Russian president will visit China for the second time in less than a year as a sign of the growing relationship between Russia and China. This president began a new term in office last week, though he has been in power since 2012 and even earlier.

Who is Vladimir Putin?

200

"Summer Nights" (Grease), "What Time Is It" (High School Musical 2), and "In Summer" (Frozen) are all songs about summer from this type of movie. This type of movie includes singing and dancing as an important part of the movie.

What is a musical?

200

The NFL, the American Football League, is increasingly recruiting players from this other sport that is similar to American football but played around the world. This sport is a sort of national sport in places like South Africa, New Zealand, and Ireland.

What is rugby?

200

This term originated in video game culture. It originally meant a video game character controlled by the computer rather than a player, but now it can mean people who doesn't think for themselves.

What is an NPC (non-player character)?

200

Because it was so rare and so sweet, this large yellow-fleshed fruit became a symbol of hospitality. In 1700s America, people would rent this fruit as a decoration for parties to look wealthier than they actually were. At one point, Hawaii produced almost all of this fruit in the world, and farmers of this fruit overthrew the Hawaiian government and made it an American territory.

What is a pineapple?

300

On Monday, Melinda Gates announced that she is resigning from the charitable organization she led with her former husband, Bill Gates. The organization, which gave away 78 billion dollars over 25 years, was largely funded by this technology company founded by Bill Gates.

What is Microsoft?

300

During summer, you might have this kind of meal, in which meat is cooked outside over some sort of flame. Different varieties of this include South African braais, South American Asado, Chinese Shaokao, and Korean gogi-gui.

What is barbecue?

300

Pol Vaulting is a sport in which athletes use a pole to jump over a bar. Many pole vaulters begin vaulting after becoming too tall for  this other sport, that also requires flexibility, agility, balance, and strength. Events in this sport include the balance beam, the uneven bars, and another sort of vault.

What is gymnastics?

300

This term is used to describe a game in which players take on characters in a fictional setting. Online examples include Final Fantasy, Mass Effect, and Fallout. An offline example is Dungeons and Dragons.

What is a role-playing game (RPG)?

300

Historically, this sweet red fruit with black seeds and a green rind has been associated with different people groups. Although people call it a melon, it is technically a berry. It was used as a racist stereotype for African Americans, but is now a symbol of eco-socialism and Palestinian resistance.

What is watermelon?
400

"Cold lava" destroyed over 100 homes and killed around 40 people on the Island of Sumatra after heavy rains. Sumatra is in this Asian island country whose capital is Jakarta.

What is Indonesia?

400

Description acceptable. The change in seasons (and the warm temperatures of summer) is caused by the 23.5 degree tilt along this. The tilt along this thing causes some parts of the earth to get more energy from the sun than others.

What is the earth's axis or (the line the earth rotates around/the earth is tilted in space not straight up and down)?

400

Usain Bolt, one of the fastest men in the world, took a break from his Olympic sprinting career to play football, though it never really went well. Bolt apparently turned down a two-year offer to join this Maltese football club in 2018.

What is Valletta FC?

400

Throwback! This game gained popularity during Covid. In this game, one or two players are alien imposters on a ship of astronauts who try to kill innocent crew mates. At its peak in 2020, 60 million people played it daily and it spawned the rise of slang terms like "sus."

What is Among Us?

400

In the early 1900s, the United Fruit Company, United Fruit Company controlled the governments of Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica to protect the production of this sweet yellow fruit, leading to the term "________ republic." A "_____ republic" describes an unstable country  who depends on exporting its natural resources. 

What is a banana?

500

Gangs  the legitimate government in this country in January and have been ruling for months, leading to a breakdown of law and order. Although the capital of Port-au-prince has been blocked for months, gangs are still accessing guns and ammunition

What is Haiti?

500

Gatherings at Stonehenge in England, Midsommar in Sweden, and Ivan Kupala Night in Eastern Europe celebrate this day, which falls on the 21 of June. This day is the longest day and the shortest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. 

What is the summer solstice?

500

Petr Cech is a Czech athlete. He was an excellent goalkeeper for Premier League teams like Chelsea and Arsenal for many years. However, in 2019, he decided to try out this other sport, which is popular in Canada. He is also a goalkeeper in this sport.

What is ice hockey?

500

This Sony video game franchise is set in the Wumpa Islands and has elements like Wumpa Fruit, Aku Aku Masks, and Switch boxes. The series includes platform games, kart racing, party, hack-and-slash, and endless runner games.

What is Crash Bandicoot?

500
Sura 95 of the Quran is named for this fruit. The Buddha attained enlightenment after meditating under this type of fruit tree. In the Bible, Jesus makes this kind of tree whither after it doesn't produce fruit. Today, this fruit is used to make "____ newtons." Some vegans refuse to eat this fruit because sometimes bugs are trapped inside the fruit as it develops.

What are figs?