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100
Canadian-born James Naismith invented this sport in Massachusetts in 1891, using peach baskets as the goals.
What is basketball?
100
Its German name literally means "badger dog" -- which is exactly what it was bred to go underground after.
What is a dachshund?
100
The concert version has 47 strings and seven foot pedals, and you pluck it rather than bow it.
What is the harp?
100
Shah Jahan raised this white marble mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal.
What is the Taj Mahal?
100
Name the country that flies this.
What is Brazil?
200
Ice hockey is Canada's national winter sport. By act of Parliament, this is the national summer sport.
What is lacrosse?
200
Long used as a coach dog trotting alongside horses, this spotted breed became the traditional firehouse mascot in the era of horse-drawn engines.
What is a Dalmatian?
200
Its everyday name is short for "pianoforte" -- Italian for soft-loud, after the dynamic range its inventor built in.
What is the piano?
200
At 828 metres, this Dubai skyscraper has been the world's tallest building since it opened in 2010.
What is the Burj Khalifa?
200
Guinness recognises this Nordic country's red flag with an off-centre white cross as the oldest continuously used national flag.
What is Denmark?
300
John McCrae, a Canadian military doctor, wrote a poem in 1915 while serving in Belgium. That poem became symbolic of our remembrance. What is the title of this poem?
What is "In Flanders Fields"?
300
Kept by the canons of a namesake Alpine hospice from the 1600s, this giant breed became famous for finding travellers buried in snow -- though the brandy cask round its neck was a painter's invention.
What is a Saint Bernard?
300
Ravi Shankar popularized this long-necked Indian instrument in the West, and taught it to a Beatle.
What is the sitar?
300
Roughly 50,000 spectators packed this amphitheatre, shaded by a retractable awning called the velarium.
What is the Colosseum?
300
For 34 years, until 2011, this North African country flew a national flag that was a plain green rectangle -- no emblem, no design at all.
What is Libya?
400
Name the national park that holds this glacial lake and the Valley of the Ten Peaks.
What is Banff National Park?
400
Name this Japanese breed -- the one whose face launched the "doge" meme.
What is a Shiba Inu?
400
Name this instrument, played by moving your hands near its two antennas without ever touching it.
What is a theremin?
400
Hiram Bingham's 1911 expedition, guided by a local farmer's son, brought this Inca site at roughly 2,400 metres to international attention.
What is Machu Picchu?
400
Along with Vatican City, this Alpine country flies one of the world's only two square national flags.
What is Switzerland?
500
At the University of Toronto in 1921, this hormone turned a fatal diagnosis into a manageable one — and its patent was signed over to the university for a single dollar.
What is insulin?
500
Its name comes from a German word for splashing -- a nod to its original job retrieving waterfowl, despite the breed's strong French associations.
What is a poodle?
500
Beaten out of discarded oil drums, it is the official national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago.
What is the steelpan? (accept steel drum)
500
Guinness calls this 12th-century Cambodian temple the largest religious structure in the world. Name it.
What is Angkor Wat?
500
A red dragon has flown on this flag since the Tudors -- it belongs to this English-speaking country.
What is Wales?