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100
  1. At the conclusion of an 1835 literary fairy tale, a small object is placed in a museum because of its critical role in finding a suitable princess to marry a prince. What is this object that was placed under dozens of mattresses earlier in the tale?




Answer: Pea DD**


100

    • What is ear wax made of?  






 

  • Dead skin cells, hair, and ear secretions.


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100
  1. Which is the smallest ocean in the world?


The Arctic Ocean

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100
  • What British telecom, whose name comes from the words "voice," "data," and "phone," was originally headquartered in an office over a curry shop in Newbury, England?

     
     
     


 
 



 
 

Answer: Vodafone  DD**

100

  1. Question: What’s the loudest insect in the world?
     
     

     


 

Answer: The African cicada

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100
  1. Which constellation contains the brightest stars?







  • Orion

200
  1. Lilly “Shug” Avery is the free-spirited singer known for both her beautiful voice and scandalous lifestyle for the 1930s American South (specifically, Georgia) in what award-winning epistolary novel by writer Alice Walker?






 



 

Answer: The Color Purple

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200


  1. How many times a minute does your eye blink?  
     


 
 

About 20 times a minute.

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200
  • In which country is Mount Kilimanjaro located?





 

Tanzania DD**

200
  • A Dark 'n' Stormy cocktail is a bar staple in many countries, including England and Bermuda. To make it, one mixes rum with what kind of spiced carbonated beverage? Hint: We're looking for TWO words here.
     
     
     


 
 


 
 
 


  • Answer: Ginger Beer


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200
  1. Question: What sea creatures have the ability to clone themselves?




 



 

Answer: Jellyfish   DD**

200
  1. What was the first movie ever made?






 
 
 
 



 

"The Horse in Motion" 1878

Slices of Time: Eadweard Muybridge’s Cinematic Legacy

By 1878, photographers had mastered the art of photographing images on fixed metal plates. But some asked: what if there was a way to photograph images in motion?  

300

Jack, Simon, Piggy, and Roger are four of the young characters that make up the cast in what 1954 novel?



 






 


 

Answer: Lord of the Flies DD**

300
  • About what percent of the population is left-handed?
  • 5%
  • 10%
  • 15%
  • etc....
     



 



 

  • 10% DD**
300
  1. What year did the Berlin Wall fall?




 


 
 
 



 


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1989

300
  1. Stretching over 31 miles between Kent, England and Hauts-de-France, France, the Chunnel is a colloquial portmanteau of what famous tunnel?

     

     

     

     
     


Answer: The Channel Tunnel DD**


300
  1.  Question: Where are the only two places in the world where lions live in the wild?
     

Answer: Africa and India DD**


300
  1. Question: What’s the main way cats show they trust someone?
     



     





 

Answer: By headbutting

400
  1. Two displaced migrant ranch workers are the dual protagonists of what 1937 novella with a title that starts with a preposition?




Answer: Of Mice and Men

400
  • What body part or organ uses more oxygen than every other part?  
     


 

 

 

  • The brain.

400
  1. What is the official language of Brazil?


Portuguese


400
  1. Fined one shilling plus costs, Walter Arnold of Kent, England is often considered the first motorist to receive what type of "ticket" on January 28, 1896?

     

     


 
 

 
 
 
 

Answer: Speeding ticket DD**

400
  1. Question: How do honeybees communicate to one another that they’ve found the best pollen?
     



 




 

Answer: By dancing

400
  • What term for a large type of timepiece came from an 1876 song written about an object in the George Hotel in Yorkshire, England?

     







 

 

 
 

Answer: Grandfather Clock


500
  1. Not signifying someone smart with Lincolns, but rather a sewer-dweller, what is the name of the dancing clown in Stephen King's famed horror novel "It?"





 



 

Answer: Pennywise

500
  • What is more sensitive, your sense of smell or your sense of taste?
     

     

     


  • Sense of smell.
     
500
  1. Which city is known as ‘The City of Seven Hills’?



 


 


 

Rome, Italy

500

  1. What gorge in Somerset, England has a lot of claims to fame—not just Britain’s oldest complete human skeleton, but also the namesake of a popular cheese?



     





 

 
 




Answer: Cheddar

500
  1. Question: What animal can only eat when its head is upside down?


 


Answer: Flamingo

500
  • Who is considered the father of modern medicine?
     

     




 

  • Hippocrates.
600
  1. Which New York neighborhood gives its name to the literary and cultural "Renaissance" movement of the 1920s that celebrated African American art, music, and literature?




 



 

Answer: Harlem

600
  • Which body system is concerned with the production and regulation of hormones?  

     

     


The endocrine system.

600

  1. Which Great Lake does Niagra Falls empty into?









 


 
 
 
 
 

Lake Ontario

600
  • In the oldest written record of the sport of cricket, there is a 1611 entry in which two parishioners in Sussex, England failed to attend church because they were playing cricket. What important Christian holiday did these men skip in order to play bowler and batsman?

     

Answer: Easter

600
  1. What's the only animal that dies standing up?
     



 


 

Answer: Giraffe

600
  1. What element has the atomic number 1?





 

Hydrogen