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100

This is the capital city of France.

What is Paris?

100

In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is in love with this person.

Who is Daisy Buchanan

100

The primary ingredient in the Middle Eastern dish falafel?

What is chickpeas?

100

The Da Vinci Code opens with a murder in this famous museum.

What is The Louvre?

100

This is often mislabeled as the spiciest part of a pepper.

What are seeds?

200

This famous cathedral in Paris opened in 1345, and it was made more famous in an 1831 Victor Hugo novel.

What is Notre-Dame?

200

Mark Twain’s characters Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn live in this US state.

What is Missouri?

200

While broth is made with meat, this ingredient differentiates stock from broth.

What are bones?

200

Stephen King‘s 11/22/63, a high school English teacher hurtles back in time to 1963 and attempts to stop this monumental event.

What is John F. Kennedy's assassination?
200

The French consume around 25,000 tons of this each year, which are known as escargot.

What are snails?

300

Her best-selling cookbook on French cuisine led to her own TV show, The French Chef.

Who is Julia Child?

300

The name of Bill Sykes’ dog in Oliver Twist.

What is Bullseye?

300

This is also known as Japanese horseradish.

What is wasabi?

300

This is the best selling novel of all time.

What is Don Quixote?

300

This Italian dessert has less fat and air than ice cream.

What is gelato?

400

This is the national food of France.

What is pot-au-feu?

400

Jane Harpers bestselling thriller series is set in this country.

What is Australia

400

These actions are taken when you "temper" chocolate.

What is melting and cooling?

400

Scout Finch's real name in To Kill A Mockingbird.

What is Jean Louise?

400

This condiment was used for its medicinal qualities in the 1800s.

What is ketchup?

500

Croissants were originally inspired by another crescent shaped pastry that came from this country.

What is Austria?

500

Ernest hemingway wrote 'For whom the bell tolls' in this country.

What is Cuba?

500

This is done to pastry dough in order to "dock" it.

What is piercing?

500

‘Burmese days’ was the debut novel of this writer.

Who is George Orwell?

500

This is the English name for the French national holiday Fête Nationale Française celebrated on July 14. (Hint: The observance marks the fall of a French prison at the start of the Revolution)

What is Bastille Day?