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What is the largest known land animal?

Elephant

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What was Queen Victoria's first name?

Alexandrina

100

What is the largest country in South America?

Brazil


100

Who popularized the white wedding dress?

Queen Victoria

100

“Call me Ishmael” begins this famous sea adventure.

 Moby-Dick

200

Animals that eat both plants and meat are called what?

Omnivores

200

Who was the leader of the United States during World War II?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

200

What is the name of the largest waterfall in the world by volume of water?

Inga Falls, located on the Congo River, holds the title for the largest waterfall by volume in the world.

200

What bird did Ben Franklin suggest replace the bald eagle as a national emblem?

The wild turkey

200

This Southern epic starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable was based on a novel by Margaret Mitchell.

Gone with the Wind

300

What is the rarest blood type?

AB-

300

Who was the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom?

Margaret Thatcher

300

What is the name of the largest island in the Caribbean Sea?

Cuba

300

What is the name of Spain's famous cold soup made mostly from tomatoes?

Gazpacho

300

Gregory Peck won an Oscar for playing Atticus Finch in this Harper Lee adaptation

To Kill a Mockingbird

400

What is it called when you make light change direction by passing it through a lens?

Refraction

400

Who was the first emperor of Rome?

Augustus Caesar

400

What is the name of the country located on the Iberian Peninsula and known for its beaches and bullfighting?

spain

400

What color were stop signs originally?

Yellow

400

This British mystery writer is known as the “Queen of Crime.”

Agatha Christie

500

What planet in our solar system has the most gravity?

 Jupiter

500

Which was the first Japanese car produced in the United States?

Honda Accord

500

What is the name of the river that forms the border between Mexico and the United States?

Rio Grande

500

Who was pictured on the first US adhesive stamp?

Benjamin Franklin

500

This Nobel Prize–winning author wrote about the Dust Bowl in The Grapes of Wrath.

Who is John Steinbeck

600

About how old is Earth?

4.5 billion years

600

What was the name of the conflict between North and South Korea that took place from 1950 to 1953?

 Korean War

600

What is the name of the country located in the Andes Mountains and known for its tango dance?

Argentina

600

What protein is responsible for giving blood its color?

Hemoglobin

600

What Shakespeare play begins with a meeting of the Weird Sisters?

Macbeth

700

The Pathfinder spacecraft landed on what planet in 1997?

Mars

700

Who was the leader of the American colonies during the French and Indian War?

George Washington

700

What is the name of the largest lake in Africa?

Lake Victoria

700

What is an uncastrated, adult male horse called?

Stallion

700

This author once worked as a postman before publishing The Color Purple.

Alice Walker

800

Which of Newton’s Laws states that ‘for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction?’

The third law of motion

800


Who became King of Italy in 1804?

Napoleon I

800

What is the name of the famous mountain range that runs along the western coast of South America?

Andes Mountains

800

Who was the only US president to not marry?

James Buchanan

800

This Oxford professor created The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

J.R.R. Tolkien

900

What is a unit that measures force?

Newtons

900

What was the name of the period of cultural and intellectual growth that took place in Europe during the 14th to 17th centuries?

Renaissance

900

Which is the highest state in the US?  

Colorado

900

Which planet in our solar system has the longest day?

Venus

900

In terms of decibels, what is normally the loudest instrument in a symphony orchestra?

Trombone

1000

What are the gaps between nerve cells called?

Synapses

1000

Which US president asked the US congress to declare war on Japan in 1941?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1000

What is the name of the largest desert in Asia?

Gobi Desert

1000

In the 1820s, the world’s first photograph was taken in which country?

France

1000

Moved by a desire to help people, Vincent van Gogh left art to become what?

A priest