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100

What country was at war with Iran from 1980-1988?

Iraq

100

What is the third largest state (in area) in. the U.S.?

California

100

What's a vixen?

A female fox

100

What is the governing body of golf in the U.S.?

The United States Golf Association

100

What's the Hebrew word for peace, used as both a greeting and a farewell?

Shalom

200

What could Roman Catholics do in good conscience for the first time on Dec.5,1966?

Eat meat on Friday

200

What's the longest navigable river in the world?

The Amazon

200

What dog is named for a Mexican state?

The Chihuahua

200

What two Big Ten schools play annually for the Paul Bunyan Axe?

Minnesota and Wisconsin

200

Where is the line of life?

The palm

300

What city was destroyed by "Little Boy"?

Hiroshima

300

What SW U.S. city is home to the "Cowboy Hall of Fame?

Oklahoma City, OK

300

What creatures live in a formicary?

Ants

300

Name any one of the three oldest college football rivalries (all Ivy League schools)?

Princeton-Yale 1873, Harvard -Yale 1875, Harvard- Princeton 1877.

300

What color is the Hammer and Sickle on the Soviet Union's flag?

Gold

400

Where in Beijing did Chinese students build a Goddess of Democracy in May 1989?

Tiananmen Square

400

What modern city is the capital of Brazil?

Brasilia

400

What's the favorite food of dragonflies?

Mosquitoes

400

What's another name for downhill skiing?

Alpine skiing

400

Whose political slogan was " A Chicken in Every Pot"?

Herbert Hoover's

500

In what cathedral in England was Archbishop Thomas Becket murdered in 1170?

Canterbury Cathedral

500

What separates the Gulf of California from the Pacific Ocean?

The Baja Peninsula (Baja California acceptable)

500

What worm prefers the mulberry?

Silkworm

500

What world renowned physicist said " I'm sure you'd learn mathematics before I'd learned baseball"

Alber Einstein

500

What are the Jubilee, Jonker, and Excelsior?

Famous Diamonds