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This man invented the lightbulb in 1879.

Who is Thomas Edison?

100

The plural of "moose"

What is moose?

100

The number of face cards in a deck of playing cards.

What is 12?

100

The largest organ in the human body?

What is the skin?

100

The 2nd most commonly consumed beverage in the world.

What is tea?

200

The first 10 amendments of the Constitution.

What is the Bill of Rights?

200

This genre of fiction features magical creatures such as giants, goblins, and dragons.

What is a fairy tale?

200

The number for the Roman numeral XVI.

What is 16?

200
The gas that plants "breathe in".

What is carbon dioxide?

200

The largest number of children born to a single woman.

What is 69 children? Nice!

300

This president is on the half-dollar coin and was assassinated in 1963.

Who is John F. Kennedy?

300

The name of the book about a friendship between a spider and pig.

What is Charlotte's Web?
300

The sum of interior angles of a triangle.

What is 180 degrees?

300

Water freezes at this temperature (in Celcius).

What is 0 degrees C?

300

The only king in a deck of cards without a mustache.

(Spades, Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds?)

What is the King of Hearts?

400

This person wrote the national anthem of the United States of America.

Who is Francis Scott Key?

400

A group of crows.

What is a murder?

400

You have 20 pairs of shoes, but there is only room in your closet for 8 shoes. How many shoes do you need to get rid of?

What is 32 shoes or 16 pairs?

400

This classification of animal can live in water and on land.

What is amphibian?

400

The number of months in the calandar year with exactly 30 days.

What is 4 (April, June, September, and November)?

500

The decade in which Hong Kong reverted from British rule? (hint: 20th century)

What is the 1990s?

500

Often seen at the end of a sentence...

What is an ellipsis?

500

The name of the line that divides the numerator and denominator.

What is the vinculum?

500

Animals without a backbone.

What is an invertebrate?

500

The numerical measurement of a "jiffy".

What is one trillionth (1/100000000) of a second?