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100

On MASH*, what was Hawkeye Pierce’s profession?

What is a surgeon?

100

What Canadian province is known as “La Belle Province”?

What is Quebec?

100

Which singer recorded “Blue Suede Shoes” before Elvis made it famous?

Who was Carl Perkins?

100

What is the meaning of the phrase “once in a blue moon”?

What is something that happens very rarely?

100

What river runs through Egypt?

What is the Nile?

200

What was the name of the bar on Cheers where “everybody knows your name”?

What is Cheers?

200

Which U.S. president resigned from office during the Watergate scandal?

Who was Richard Nixon?

200

What singer’s backing band was called The Tennessee Three?

Who was Johnny Cash?

200

What does it mean to “hit the hay”?

What is to go to bed?

200

What mountain range separates Europe from Asia in Russia?

What are the Ural Mountains?

300

Which actress played Lucy Ricardo on I Love Lucy?

Who was Lucille Ball?

300

What famous passenger ship was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915?

What is the Lusitania?

300

Which composer became deaf later in life yet continued writing music?

Who was Beethoven?

300

What word means a fear of heights?

What is acrophobia?

300

What is the smallest country in the world?

What is Vatican City?

400

What detective series starred Peter Falk as a rumpled investigator?

What is Columbo?

400

What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?

What is Sputnik?

400

What folk trio sang “Puff the Magic Dragon”?

Who were Peter, Paul and Mary?

400

What is a palindrome?

What is a word or phrase that reads the same backward and forward?

400

Which Canadian city is known for the Stampede?

What is Calgary?

500

What was the name of the family on The Waltons?

Who are the Waltons?

500

Which British Prime Minister led Britain through most of World War II?

Who was Winston Churchill?

500

Which jazz musician was nicknamed “Satchmo”?

Who was Louis Armstrong?

500

What do you call a word formed from the first letters of a phrase, such as NASA?

What is an acronym?

500

What African desert is the largest hot desert in the world?

What is the Sahara Desert?