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100

The Berlin Wall fell in this year, marking the symbolic end of the Cold War.

What is 1989?

100

The Hubble Space Telescope orbits this celestial body.

What is Earth?

100

The Great Wall of China was originally built to protect against invasions from this group of nomadic people.

Who are the Mongols?

100

The 1956 Olympics were the first Games to be hosted in this country.
 

What is Australia?

100

Bryce Courtenay’s The Power of One follows the childhood of a boy named Peekay in this country.

What is South Africa?

200

The year 1066 is famous for this decisive battle in English history.

What is the Battle of Hastings?

200

In physics, this law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

What is Newton's Third Law?

200

This U.S. state is the only one that was once an independent country.

What is Texas?

200

The Olympic flame is traditionally lit in this ancient site before traveling to the host city.

What is Olympia, Greece?

200

This epic novel by Leo Tolstoy is often considered one of the greatest books ever written and is set during the Napoleonic Wars.

What is War and Peace?

300

The assassination of this Austrian Archduke in 1914 was the immediate spark that led to World War I.

Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

300

This is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.

What is mercury?

300

This Asian country is home to the longest railway line in the world, the Trans-Siberian Railway.

What is Russia?

300

The 1980 Moscow Olympics were boycotted by this country and several of its allies.

What is the United States?

300

Cloudstreet, a novel about two working-class families in Perth, was written by this Australian author.

Who is Tim Winton?

400

The Black Death, a deadly pandemic, spread across Europe in this century.

What is the 14th century?

400

This organ in the human body produces insulin to help regulate blood sugar.

What is the pancreas?

400

This European capital is built on 14 islands connected by more than 50 bridges.

What is Stockholm?

400

This African country became the first from the continent to host the Olympics.

(Trick question: No African country has hosted the Olympics yet.)

400

This Charles Dickens novel begins with the famous line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

What is A Tale of Two Cities?

500

In 1956 a crises that involved Egypt’s nationalisation of this strategic waterway.

What is the Suez Canal?

500

The pH scale measures how acidic or basic a substance is, with this number being neutral.

What is 7?

500

This U.S. river is the longest in North America.

What is the Missouri River?

500

The 2016 Rio Olympics marked the first time this sport was added to the Summer Games.

What is golf?

500

This Shakespearean tragedy follows the downfall of a Scottish king and his ambitious wife.

What is Macbeth?