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100

This was the first president to stay in the White House.

Who is John Adams?

100

This country sits between Norway and Finland.

What is Sweden?

100

This is the smallest functional unit of a writing system.

What is a Grapheme?

100

This city is the capital and largest city of Mongolia.  It means "Red Hero."

What is UlaanBaatar?

100

This is a probabilistic argument used to estimate the number of active communicative Alien civilizations in our galaxy.

What is the Drake equation?

200

This president took over after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.

Who is Andrew Johnson?

200

This country sits between Myanmar (Burma) and Cambodia.

What is Thailand?

200

This was the first fully phonemic script and is considered to be the first alphabet.

What is the Phoenician Alphabet?

200

This city was part of Viken during the Viking Age.  The city's name was Kristiania until it changed its name to this in 1925.

What is Oslo?

200

This states that humans, on the Earth or in the Solar System are not privileged observers of the universe.

What is the Copernican Principle?

300

This president is closely associated with a Teddy Bear.

Who is Theodore Roosevelt?

300

This country sits between Panama and Nicaragua.

What is Costa Rica?

300

This is the longest known alphabet in the world consisting of 74 letters.

What is the Cambodian Khmer alphabet?

300

This city is the third most populous city in India.  The official language is Kannada and is part of the Karnataka state.

What is Bangalore?

300

This hypothesis states that life exists throughout the Universe.  It is spread by space dust, meteoroids, asteroids, comets, and planetoids.

What is Panspermia?

400

This president is the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms.

Who is Grover Cleveland?

400

This country sits between Estonia and Lithuania.

What is Latvia?

400

These alphabets were used to write various Germanic languages before Latin was adopted. The name is taken to mean "secret."

What are Runic alphabets?

400

This city has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab world, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning.

What is Cairo?

400

This extremophile thrives at relatively high temperatures, between 41 and 122 degrees celsius. They are suggested to have been among the earliest forms of bacteria.

What is a Thermophile?

500

This president died 31 days into office from pneumonia after his inauguration.

Who is William Henry Harrison?

500

This country sits between Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

What is Uzbekistan?

500

This is the study of ancient and historical handwriting. It includes deciphering, reading, and dating historical manuscripts.

What is Paleography?

500

This city boasts the largest Gay Pride Parade in the world.  It also holds an annual March for Jesus in which some 350,000 participated in 2015.  

What is Sao Paulo?

500

This is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial that monitors electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets.

What is SETI? (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence )