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100
In what park is The Bean (Cloudgate) located?
Millennium Park
100
What dead language is considered the direct ancestor to Romance languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian)
Latin
100
What color card is given in soccer/football when a player is ejected from the game?
100
What is the name of the biggest park located in NYC?
Central Park
100
This is the only country that is also classified a continent
Australia
100
An apartment is called what in British English
Flat
100
In what part of Los Angeles are so many famous studios located? (9 letters, last letter is d)
Hollywood
200
Beginning with the letter M, this part of Michigan Ave (with high end shops and hotels) is also called what?
Magnificent Mile
200
What language is spoken in the country of Iran? (the language is commonly called two different names)
Farsi Persian
200
When 3 goals are scored by one player in hockey or football, this is called a ......(two words)
Hat Trick
200
Beginning with the same letter, what is the two-word name of the famous bridge that was built in San Francisco?
Golden Gate
200
The world's busiest airport is located in this city
Atlanta
200
An elevator is what word in British English
Lift
200
What is the 5-letter name of the statue given out at the Academy Awards
Oscar
200
This character's father was killed by his uncle, whom he ended up killing after a famous speech of "To Be or Not to Be"
300
Which of these colors is used to go to Evanston (city north of Chicago) and the main campus for Northwestern University
Purple
300
how many languages are classified as official languages of India ?
a) 9 b) 13 c) 17 d)22
d 22
300
How many innings are played in a regulation baseball game in the USA (MLB)?
9
300
How many times zones are located in the continental USA (48 states, NOT Alaska and Hawaii)
4
300
This is a state (7 letters)located in the southeast of the USA, known for good college football teams. Martin Luther King was arrested there in the 1960's. There are 4 A's in the name.
Alabama
300
French fries are referred to as what in the UK?
Chips
300
6 letters, and the 4th letter is u. The second movie of a trilogy is called a .............
300
In additions, many of these 14-line poems were also written by Shakespeare. The second letter is o.
Sonnets
400
This famous magazine for adult men was founded by Hugh Hefner in Chicago in 1959
Playboy
400
Much of the Bible was written in the ancient form of this modern language. It was also the language spoken in much of the Roman Empire (hint: it's not Latin)
Greek
400
In what country was the last World Cup won by the host country? (most recent)
France (1998)
400
Who had been elected President before George W.Bush (the son)? He was elected President in 1992 after defeating George Bush (the father)
Bill Clinton
400
Portuguese is spoken in this African country
Angola
400
A line is called what
in British English?
Queue
400
Which member of the Corleone family is killed at the orders of his own brother:
Vito Sonny Freddie Michael Paulie
Freddie
400
If you say this 7-letter name in the theater, you will be cursed with bad luck. In the theater, this title is referred to as the "Scottish play"
Macbeth
500
All beginning with the same letter, the 3 teams for basketball, hockey, and American football are played by these 3 teams (you don't have to tell me in order)
Bulls, Blackhawks, Bears
500
Name 4 of the official languages (besides English)that are used at the United Nations (there are 5 others total)
Spanish, Russian, Chinese, French, Arabic
500
How many strikes are needed for a perfect game (300) in bowling?
12
500
What is the only state that can be pronounced with one syllable?
Maine
500
Name one of the two countries that do not end with the letter A
Afganistan or Azerbaijan
500
The British word for pharmacist is this? 7 letters, ends in -st
Chemist
500
What is considered the most successful movie of all time, with close to $ 3 billion (3,000,000,000) in sales?
Avatar
500
7 letters, the first and last letter are the same vowel. Who was the Moor (north African) general who was tricked by his "friend" Iago into killing his wife Desdemona?
Othello