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100

Believed to have originated among Dutch immigrants in New York City, this common playground game requires participants to simultaneously jump two ropes turning in opposite directions.

What is Double Dutch?

100

The face of Netherlands' colonialism, this organization is believed to be the largest company to ever have existed in recorded history.

What is the Dutch East India Company?

100

This one-eared Dutch painter famously painted "Starry Night."

Who is Vincent van Gogh?

100

Deriving its name from a Dutch city that had a marketplace monopoly on the product, this is one of the oldest recorded cheeses in the world still made today, with the first mentions dating from 1184.

What is Gouda? 

100

Stolen from Mocha, Yemen, the Dutch were the first to bring a live plant of this addictive drink of the intellectuals back to Europe in 1616.

What is coffee?

200

Meaning to split the bill, this phrase alludes to the common stereotype that Dutch people are frugal.

What is "going Dutch"?

200

Known more widely by its British colonial name, this 17th-century Dutch colonial settlement was built on land originally "purchased" from Native Americans for the equivalent of $24.

What is New Amsterdam?

200

Though not the originator of the story, Mary Mapes Dodges' 1865 novel "Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates" popularized the story of a quick-thinking Dutch boy who plugged this sea barrier with his finger. 

What is a dike?

200

Considered the modern world's earliest speculative bubble, the modern crypto craze has recently been compared to this phenomenon centered on flowers.

What is Tulip Mania?

200

The eponymous red lights of Amsterdam's Red Light District traditionally indicate this. 

What is an open brothel?

300

This American cultural group was actually formed by German immigrants. 

What is Pennsylvania Dutch?

300

Ultimately becoming shorthand for the drink itself, the Dutch dominated the European coffee trade through forced cultivation and slavery using their plantation on this Indonesian island.

What is Java?

300

The subject of this painting, currently on display in The Hague, was played by actress Scarlett Johansson in a 2003 film of the same name.

What is Girl With A Pearl Earring?

300

Legend has it that Dutch farmers bred a new color into this historically purple and white vegetable in honor of their favorite William.

What is the carrot?

300

Under a 2013 government rule, only these people are permitted to purchase cannabis at coffee shops in the Netherlands.

Who are residents of the Netherlands?

400

This cooking tool was created in the early 18th Century after an English ironmaster visited the Netherlands and learned to cast iron in sand molds, a traditional Dutch technique.

What is a Dutch oven?

400

DAILY DOUBLE!!

What is cloves? 

400

This Dutch Golden Age painter behind "The Night Watch" is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in history and the most important in Dutch art history.

Who is Rembrandt?

400

Despite hundreds of years of cultivation and breeding, horticulturalists have still failed to produce natural tulip flowers of this color.

What is blue?

400

This common Red Light District practice arose in response to a ban on solicitation on the street or in doorways.

What is window prostitution? 

500

This slang term refers to a person who, much like Ted Lasso's Jan Maas, issues frank or harsh criticism.

What is a Dutch uncle?

500

Descendants of Dutch colonists, this group of farmers are perhaps most famous for a series of wars against the British Empire and for instituting and upholding apartheid.

Who are the Boers?

500

Perhaps the most famous Dutch football player, he is immortalized by this move, which was subsequently named after him. [Play Video]

Who is Johan Cruyff?

500

If not for the work started in the 14th century and accelerated as part of the Zuidersee Works in 1918, a 2007 study found this commonplace occurrence would submerge 65% of the Netherlands total land area.

What is high tide?

500
With an annual output of 2.41 million hectolitres of beer, 348 varieties, and production across 70 countries, Heineken holds this rank in global beer production. 

What is second?