North America is bordered on the east and west by these bodies of water
What are the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
100
With over 1.5 billion adherents, this religion was established by the prophet Muhammad and his acolytes in the early seventh century.
What is Islam?
100
This part of speech takes the place of a noun (it's antecedent)
What is a pronoun?
100
The sum of 1/2 and 1/4
What is 3/4?
100
Where genetic information is found in all living organisms
What is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)?
200
Lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior, which account for 21% of the Earth's fresh water, are collectively known as these
What are the Great Lakes?
200
This continent was inhabited by indigenous groups (Aborigines) for over 40,000 years before becoming a British penal colony in the late eighteenth century.
What is Australia?
200
A clause that has a subject and a verb but fails to express a complete thought (e.g., After I woke up)
What is a dependent (subordinate) clause?
200
The area of a room measuring 8'x8'
What is 64 square feet?
200
According to physicists, this speed (~186,000 miles/second) cannot be eclipsed
What is the speed of light?
300
The largest desert in the world (equal in area to the U.S.)
What is the Sahara?
300
This "war" (1947-1991) was really a political and economic conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union
What is the Cold War?
300
The subject (who or what) in the following sentence:
Be quiet!
What is "you"?
300
The length of a football field in feet
What is 300 feet?
300
Accounts for approximately 70 percent of the Earth's surface
What is water?
400
The sea that separates Europe and Africa
What is the Mediterranean?
400
This trade route, which was travelled for over 3000 years, extended thousands of miles from southern Europe through the Middle East to China
What is the Silk Road?
400
Perhaps the greatest poet and playwright ever, he penned dozens of plays and hundreds of sonnets, including Romeo and Juliet
Who is William Shakespeare?
400
The distance a car will have travelled after 3 1/2 hours at 60 mph
What is 210 miles?
400
The common name for NaCl (sodium chloride)
What is (table) salt?
500
At 29,029 feet, it is the tallest mountain in the world
What is Mt. Everest?
500
This warrior-king, who died in 323 B.C.E. at the age of 33, formed a vast empire that included parts of Europe, Africa and Asia
Who is Alexander the Great?
500
This blind epic poet, who lived approximately 2800 years ago, is believed to have authored both the Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
500
The product of 0.1 and 0.1
What is 0.01?
500
This planet has nine "rings" and at least 62 moons, the largest of which--Titan--is the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of surface liquid has been found