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100
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald's first name?
Francis
100
What is Lady Godiva famous for?
Riding naked through Coventry, England, (1057) to protest high taxes.
This is the source of the term "peeping Tom".
100
Which state borders the most great lakes?
Michigan (4 -Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie)
100
Where was the first commercially successful roller coaster in the world?
Coney Island (for the 1884 World's Fair)
100
What is a single-humped camel called?
a dromedary
200
Frances Perkins was the first woman to do what?
First female member of the Cabinet (Labor Secretery 1933-1945)
200
What is the name of the fish that was thought to be extinct by was discovered in 1938 and 2013 off the coast of South Africa?
Coelacanth (a lobe-finned fish)
200
NYC has 5 borough: Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan, and ___________?
Staten Island
200
What did Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) used to be called?
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
200
What do jockeys use on their horses to make them run faster?
A quirt or a crop
300
Who wore a red letter A in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlett Letter?
Hester Prynne
300
In what country were cave paintings first discovered?
Lascaux, France
300
German is the official language of Germany and what other country?
Austria
300
Where was the first gold rush in the US?
North Carolina, in 1799 (a gold nugget was discovered in a creek by a 12-year old boy)
300
What is the name of the dot on the letter i?
A tittle.
400
Which Russian jeweler made beautiful artifacts shaped like fruits, vegetables, and eggs?
Carl Faberge (produced 1885-1917)
400
What is the name of the early humans who lived in the far east?
Denisovans
400
What 3 countries do not use the metric system?
USA, Myanmar (Burma), and Liberia
400
What is the date of the Pearl Harbor attack?
December 7, 1941
400
What does Costa Rica mean in English?
RICH COAST
500
What is the name of the radio drama by Dylan Thomas called Uxxxx Xxxx xxxd?
Under Milk Wood (1954)
500
Aristotle studied under which philosopher?
Plato (427-347 BC)
500
What two countries share the longest land border in the world?
USA and Canada (5,525 miles)
500
Who was the fifth president?
James Monroe (1817-1825)
500
What two countries merged to create Tanzania?
Tanganyika and Zanzibar
