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Music
100
Pizza was invented in the city of Naples in this country in the 18th and 19th centuries.
What is Italy?
100
This is the name of the award traditionally given at the Academy Awards.
What is Oscar?
100
This famous building located in New York City and named after the state of New York was completed in 1931.
What is the Empire State Building?
100
This classic novel of the 1920s Jazz Age is Nick Carraway's narration of his time spent with the mysterious Jay Gatsby.
What is The Great Gatsby?
100
This west coast rapper, among the most famous of the late 1980s and early 1990s, was killed in a still-unsolved shooting in Las Vegas in 1996.
Who is Tupac Shakur?
200
Wurst is the name for sausages in this language.
What is German?
200
This superhero film starring the late Chadwick Boseman has won the most Academy Awards of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
What is Black Panther?
200
This conflict from 1939-1945 (although the U.S. only participated from 1941 onward) resulted in the highest death toll for Americans of any conflict.
What is World War II?
200
This bestseller by John Green (yes, THAT John Green) tells the story of a cancer-stricken young teen who falls in love with a person from her cancer support group.
What is The Fault In Our Stars?
200
This famous British band, who took the United States and the world by storm in 1964, are still to this day the highest-selling artists of all time.
Who are the Beatles?
300
Churros are a long, thin, crispy sugar-coated donut that originated in this country before coming to the New World.
What is Spain?
300
These 3 movies (name one) are tied for the most academy awards ever won by a single film at 11 apiece.
What are Titanic, the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, and Ben Hur?
300
Although this equine mail and parcel service has become part of American folklore, it only operated for just over a year from 1860-1861.
What is the Pony Express?
300
Arguably the most famous of Shakespeare's plays, this tragedy is the story of a young man seeking revenge against his uncle, who murdered the young man's father. The story was also adapted into the Disney classic "The Lion King."
What is Hamlet?
300
These two artists upset many parents with their provocative hit "WAP"; people were even more upset when the song was recently performed on television at the Grammy Awards.
Who are Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion?
400
Hamburgers are named after the city of Hamburg in this country.
What is Germany?
400
This famous actress, known for films such as Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, the African Queen, and The Lion in Winter has won more Best Acting Academy Awards than any other person.
Who is Katharine Hepburn?
400
Although most students know about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, fewer know that this man, his younger brother and also a famous politician, was assassinated just 5 years after JFK.
Who is Robert Kennedy?
400
In the Mary Shelley horror classic Frankenstein, this is the name of the reanimated monster that terrorizes throughout the book.
What is the Creature?
400
This composer's opera Die Zauberflöte, or The Magic Flute, was first performed in 1791 and contains some of the most well-known pieces of music ever written.
Who is Mozart?
500
Pho is a popular soup of broth, rice noodles, herbs, and protein that originated in this country.
What is Vietnam?
500
This actor, pictured here and known for films such as The Sound of Music and National Treasure, is the oldest to win a Best Actor award at age 82.
Who is Christopher Plummer?
500
In 1989 pro-democracy rallies in this massive and renowned public square in China were famously and publicly suppressed by troops and tanks of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
What is Tiananmen Square?
500
In the Harper Lee classic "To Kill a Mockingbird," this reclusive, frightening neighbor ends up playing a key role in the story's ultimate outcome.
Who is Boo Radley?
500
This heavy metal band, already arguably the most famous in the world at the time, became even more notorious in the 1990s for launching a lawsuit against the music downloading service Napster and raising the question of whether or not free online music downloading was illegal.
Who are Metallica?