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100

What is the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside rather than the inside?

Strawberry

100

Which country recently hosted the Summer 2024 Olympics? 

Paris

100

Who was the only U.S. president to survive an assassination attempt in the 1980s? and name the person who attempted the assignation?

Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr.

100

Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

Canada

100

Which physicist developed the theory of relativity fundamentally changing our understanding of space and time?

Albert Einstein

100

What is the most common type star in the Milky Way galaxy?

Red dwarf

200

What is the main ingredient in the Japanese dish "UNI"

Sea urchin

200

In 2024 which tech company surpassed Apple to become the world's most valuable company?

Nvidia

200

Which U.S. Supreme Court justice was appointed in 1981, become the first woman to serve on the Court?

Sandra Day O'Connor

200

What is the only U.S. state to have a tropical rainforest?

Hawaii (The Hoh Rainforest in Washington is temperate not tropical.)

200

What British mathematician and logician is considered the father of modern computing and played a crucial role in breaking the Enigma code during WW2?

Alan Turning

200

Which planet in our solar system has the fastest rotation completing a full spin in just under 10 hours?

Jupiter

300

Which type of sugar is found naturally in milk?

Lactose

300

What significant environmental event occurred in the Amazon rainforest in 2024?

Record breaking wildfires.

300

What major Cold War event happened in 1989 symbolizing the end of the communist control of Easter Europe?

The fall of the Berlin Wall

300

Which two countries share the longest international boarder?

Canada and the United States

300

Which Scientist co-discovered the structure of DNA in 1953 along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins?

Francis Crick

300

What is the name of the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, which is also classified as a dwarf planet?

Ceres

400

What is the name of the process by which bread rises due to yeast fermentation?

Proofing or fermentation

400

Which spacecraft made its closest approach to the sun in late 2024?

Parker Solar Probe

400

Which U.S. military operation in 1991 led to the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi forces?

Operation Desert Storm Gulf War

400

What is the deepest lake in the world?

Lake Baikal (Russia)

400

Which economist introduced the theory of Keynesian economics which argued for government intervention to stabilize the economy? 

John Maynard Keynes

400

What is the term for a small rock or particle from space that burns up upon entering Earths Atmosphere?

Meteor

500

Which country is the largest producer of vanilla beans?

Madagascar

500

In 2024 which country became the first to legalize the use of autonomous drones for commercial deliveries nationwide?

Japan

500

Who was the independent candidate who ran against Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush in the 1992 presidential election.

Ross Perot

500

Which African country has the highest number of bordering nations?

Democratic Republic of the Congo (9 neighbors: Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.

500

Which inventor and businessman is credited with revolutionizing mass production by developing the assembly line for automobiles?

Henry Ford

500

Which planet in our solar system has the most moons?

Saturn

600

What is the Scoville scale used to measure?

The spiciness or heat level of chili peppers.

600

Which major social media platform rebranded itself as X in 2024?

Twitter

600

Which U.S. president was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998?

Bill Clinton

600

Which is the only sea with no coastline?

The Sargasso Sea-it is defined by ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean.

600

Which psychologist developed the hierarchy of needs a theory of human motivation?

Abraham Maslow

600

What is the name of the galaxy closets to our Milky Way, which is on a collision course with our galaxy?

Andromeda

700

Which French cheese is known for being illegal to sell in the U.S. if made with raw milk and aged less than 60 days?

Roquefort

700

In 2024 which country launched the Green Wall project to combat desertification?

China

700

Which major economic agreement between the U.S. and Mexico was signed into law in 1993?

NAFTA

700

What is the largest island in the Mediterranean?

Sicily Italy

700

Who was the pioneering female scientist who conducted groundbreaking research on radioactivity and was the first person to win 2 Nobel prices?

Marie Curie

700

What is the name of the point in a black hole where gravity is so intense that space and time cease to function normally?

Singularity

800

What is the culinary term for cooking food slowly in a small amount of liquid at a temperature just below boiling?

Braising.

800

Which film won Best Picture award at the 2024 Academy Awards?

The Midnight Horizon

800

What was the name of the major political movement led by Newt Gingrich and the Republican Party in 1994?

The Contract with America

800

Which river flows through the most countries? 

The Danube River, flows through 10 countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. 

800

Which British theoretical psychists made significant contributions to black hole physics and wrote the bestselling book "A brief History of Time"?

Stephen Hawking

800

Which exoplanet discovered in the habitable zone of its star is often referred to as Earths cousin?

Kepler  452b

900

Which nut is used to make traditional Italian Pesto alla Genovese?

Pine nuts

900

In 2024 which country announced its plan to phase out all coal-fired powerplants by 2030?

Germany

900

Which scandal involved the Reagan administration secretly selling arms to Iran and using the proceeds to fund Nicaraguan rebels?

The Iran Contra Affair.

900

Which country has the most time zones including overseas territories?

France, due to its many overseas territories it spans 12 time zones.

900

Which American civil rights leader and minister is best known for his role in advancing racial equality through non-violent resistance?

Martin Luther King Jr

900

What is the name of the region of the Sun's atmosphere that is hotter than its surface and is visible during a total solar eclipse?

Corona

1000

What is the name of the protein in wheat that gives dough its elasticity and chewiness?

Gluten.

1000

Which tech company unveiled the first commercially available quantum computer in 2024?

IBM

1000

Who was the first African American to serve as Chairman of the Joint chiefs of Staff a position he held during the Gulf War?

Colin Powell

1000

Which mountain range is home to the highest capital city in the world?

The Andes, La Paz, Bolivia, is the highest capital city at about 3650 meters or 11975 feet above sea level.

1000

Who developed the polio vaccine which effectively ended the epidemic that had plagued the U.S. for decades?

Jonas Salk

1000

Which spacecraft holds the record for being the farthest human-made object from Earth?

Voyager 1