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100

Julie Andrews won an Oscar for playing this magical nanny in a 1964 Disney film. 

What is Mary Poppins?

100

This amendment gave the women the right to vote in 1920. 

What is the 19th Amendment?

100

Finish the phrase: "A watched pot never..."

"boils"

100

This river flows through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.

What is the Nile River?

100

This artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. 

Who is Michaelangelo?

200

This 1942 film starring Humphrey Bogart includes the line, "Here's looking at you, kid"

What is Casablanca?

200

This president established the Peace Corps in 1961.

Who is JFK?

200

This Shakespeare phrase warns about jealousy.

"Green-eyed monster"

200

This U.S. State is known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes"

What is Minnesota?
200

In bridge, this card suit ranks highest.

What is spades?

300

This Rogers & Hammerstein musical features the songs "Edelweiss" and "Do-Re-Mi" 

What is the Sound of Music?

300

The purchase of this territory from France doubled the size of the United States in 1803.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

300

Franklin Roosevelt said "The only thing we have to fear is..."

"Fear itself"

300

Machu Picchu is located in this South American country.

What is Peru?

300

This invention by Edwin Land revolutionized instant photography in 1948. 

What is the Polaroid camera?

400

Peter O'Toole portrayed this British military officer in a 1962 epic film. 

Who is T.E. Lawrence?

400

This Supreme Court case established the judicial review in 1803.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

400

This phrase meaning "to seize the day" comes from Latin poetry.

"Carpe diem"

400

This European city is divided by the Danube into Buda and Pest

What is Budapest?

400

This constellation contains the starts in the "Big Dipper"

What is Ursa Major?

500

This actress played Blanche DuBois in the 1951 film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire.

Who is Vivien Leigh?

500

General Douglas MacArthur famously fulfilled this promise when he returned to the Philippines in 1944. 

What is "I shall return"?

500

Winston Churchill referred to this metaphorical "curtain" descending across Europe after WWII.

What is the Iron Curtain?

500

How many U.S. states touch the Pacific Ocean? BONUS: Name them. 

What is five? 

(Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington)

500

This scientist introduced the three laws of motion in 1687.

Isaac Newton