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100

How many units must be sold for an album to be certified gold by the RIAA?

500,000

100

What commercial bakery manufactures Goldfish crackers?

Pepperidge Farms

100

According to Aesop's fable, what type of bird laid golden eggs?

goose

100

Which Olympic athlete has the most Gold Medals in the history of the Modern Olympic Games?

Michael Phelps

100

What is the collectively agreed upon most famous year of the California Gold rush?

1849

200

The video game GoldenEye 007 was released on which video game console in 1997?

Nintendo 64

200

What is the chemical symbol for gold on the periodic table?

Au

200

What is the title of William Golding's novel about schoolboys that were stranded on an island?

Lord of the Flies

200

How many Gold Medals does Michael Phelps have?

23

200

Gold Coast is a city in what Australian state?

Queensland

300

What is the name of the lion mascot of Metro Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM)?

Leo

300

What is Gold's atomic number?

79

300

Name five Richard Scarry Golden Books?

  • Mouse's House, 1949
  • Duck and His Friends, 1949
  • Two Little Miners, 1949
  • My Little Golden Dictionary, 1949
  • Christopher Bunny and Other Animal Stories, 1949
  • First Book Ever, 1950
  • Animals' Merry Christmas, 1950
  • Here Comes the Parade, 1951
  • The Gingerbread Man, 1953
  • Rabbit and His Friends, 1954
  • The Party Pig, 1954
  • The Bunny Book, 1955
  • Nursery Tales, 1958
  • Cars and Trucks, 1959
  • Firemen and Fire Engine Stamps, 1959
  • Naughty Bunny, 1959
  • Tinker and Tanker (ISBN 0-385-06010-6), 1960
  • Just For Fun (ISBN 0-307-02116-5), 1960
  • Chicken Little, 1960
  • Tinker and Tanker Out West, 1961
  • Tinker and Tanker and Their Space Ship, 1961
  • Tinker and Tanker and the Pirates, 1961
  • Good Night, Little Bear, 1961
  • The Country Mouse and The City Mouse, 1961
  • The Hickory Dickory Clock Book, 1961
  • Tommy Visits the Doctor, 1962
  • My Little Golden Book of Manners, 1962
  • Manners, 1962
  • What Animals Do, 1963
  • A Tinker and Tanker Coloring Book, 1963
  • I Am a Bunny, 1963, (ISBN 0-307-12125-9)
  • Chipmunk's ABC, 1963
  • The Rooster Struts, 1963
  • Best Word Book Ever (ISBN 0-307-15510-2), first published 1963, reprinted 1970, "new revised edition" 1980
  • Tinker and Tanker, Knights of the Round Table, 1963
  • Tinker and Tanker in Africa, 1963
  • Polite Elephant, 1964
  • Is This the House of Mistress Mouse? (ISBN 0-307-12029-5), 1964
  • Feed the Hippo His ABC's, 1964
  • Animal Mother Goose, 1964
  • Best Nursery Rhymes Ever, 1964
  • Busy, Busy World, 1965
  • Teeny Tiny Tales, 1965
  • The Santa Claus Book, 1965
  • The Bunny Book, 1965
  • Planes, 1967
  • Trains, 1967
  • Boats (ISBN 0-307-11537-2), 1967
  • Cars, 1967
  • Egg in the Hole Book, 1967
  • Best Story Book Ever (ISBN 0-307-16548-5), 1967
  • What Do People Do All Day? (ISBN 0-394-81823-7), 1968
  • The Early Bird (ISBN 0-394-81138-0), 1968
  • What Animals Do, 1968
  • Storybook Dictionary: A Giant Golden Book, 1968, reprinted 1987
  • The Great Pie Robbery, 1969
  • The Supermarket Mystery, 1969
    (The above two were combined in the omnibus Great Big Mystery Book (ISBN 0-00-138143-1), also 1969.)
  • Great Big Schoolhouse (ISBN 0-00-138150-4), 1969
  • Great Big Air Book (ISBN 0-394-92167-4), 1971
  • Best Stories Ever, 1971
  • ABC Word Book (ISBN 978-0-394-82339-3 ISBN 978-1-4027-7221-4), 1971
  • Look and Learn Library, 1971 (4 Vols.)
  • Hop Aboard! Here We Go! (ISBN 0-307-13756-2, ISBN 978-0-307-13756-2), 1972
  • Funniest Storybook Ever (ISBN 0-00-138145-8), 1972
  • Nicky Goes to the Doctor, 1972
  • Best Counting Book Ever, 1973
  • Silly Stories, 1973
  • Babykins and His Family, 1973
300

The "Miracle on Ice" involved what two countries playing what sport? 

The Soviet Union and the United States of America, Hockey

300

Golda Meir was the first female prime minister of which country?

Israel

400

What actor starred opposite of Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane in 'On Golden Pond'?

Henry Fonda

400

Nearly all of the gold on Earth came from these projectiles that bombarded the planet over 200 million years after it formed.

What are meteorites?

400

What character from S.E. Hinton' 1967 coming of Age Classic, The Outsiders stated the famous line, "Stay Gold, Pony Boy, Stay Gold".

Johnny Cade

400

What baseball player has the most Gold Glove Awards won by a single player?

Greg Maddux

400

The color gold is known as 'or' in heraldry and in what other language?

French

500

From 1985 to 1992, Rue McClanahan played which character on 'The Golden Girls'?


Blanche Devereaux

500

On how many different continents has Gold been discovered?

All Seven

500

In Roald Dahl's 1964 book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, who gives Charlie the money to buy the chocolate bar that has the prized final "Golden Ticket" that the world has been searching for?

No one, he finds the ten shilling note in the snow!

Tricky Tricky!

500

Who did the United States of America go on to play after beating the Soviet Union to win the Gold Medal?

Finland

500

Besides Gold, what were the other two gifts brought to baby Jesus by the Magi?

Frankincense, and Myrrh