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100

This country’s Navy is the largest in the world by total number of ships.

What is China?

100

This famous New Orleans street is known for parades, nightlife, and Mardi Gras celebrations.

What is Bourbon Street?

100

This company makes the popular iPhone.

What is Apple?

100

This December holiday celebrates the birth of Jesus in Christian tradition.

What is Christmas?

100

This common “www” prefix stands for the World Wide what?

What is the Web?

200

This U.S. military branch, founded in 1775, uses ranks such as Ensign, Commander, and Admiral.

What is the United States Navy?

200

New Orleans is nicknamed this, thanks to its long history of jazz music.

What is “The Big Easy”?

200

This wireless technology, often shown as bars at the top of your phone, connects you to your carrier’s network.
Answer: What is cellular signal? (Accept: What is reception?)

What is cellular signal? (Accept: What is reception?)

200

This springtime holiday began as a Jewish festival commemorating the Israelites’ escape from Egypt.

What is Passover?

200

This browser, represented by a blue “e,” was Microsoft’s longtime default way to access the Internet.

What is Internet Explorer?

300

This famous U.S. Navy academy, founded in 1845, is located in Annapolis, Maryland.

What is the United States Naval Academy?

300

This iconic New Orleans sandwich layers ham, salami, Swiss, and olive salad on a round Italian loaf.

What is a muffuletta?

300

Before smartphones, this type of phone got its name from its hinge that opened like a compact case.
 

What is a flip phone?

300

This October holiday traces its roots to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain.

What is Halloween?

300

This is the unique numeric address assigned to every device on a network.

What is an IP address?

400

This term refers to the Navy’s elite special operations force known for missions on sea, air, and land.

What are the Navy SEALs?

400

This massive waterfront district, home to the Audubon Aquarium and shops, is located along the Mississippi River.

What is the French Quarter Riverwalk?
(Acceptable: Riverwalk Marketplace)

400

This operating system, originally developed by Google, runs on most non-Apple smartphones.

What is Android?

400

This late-January or early-February celebration marks the start of a new year in the traditional lunisolar calendar.

What is Lunar New Year? (Accept: Chinese New Year)

400

Created in 1991, this protocol forms the backbone of the modern Web by defining how webpages are transmitted and displayed.

What is HTTP? (Accept: What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol?)

500

The U.S. Navy’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1961, shared its name with a World War II hero.

What is the USS Enterprise (CVN-65)?

500

This historic 19th-century New Orleans hurricane inspired the creation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Hurricane Protection System.

What is the 1856 Last Island Hurricane?

500

In 1973, this engineer made the world’s first public mobile phone call while working for Motorola.

Who is Martin Cooper?

500

This American holiday was declared an annual national celebration by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, though its harvest roots go back centuries earlier.

What is Thanksgiving?

500

This 1969 Department of Defense project, which connected four university computers, is widely considered the earliest ancestor of today’s Internet.

What is ARPANET?