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100

What daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn became Queen of England?

Elizabeth I (Must have complete answer including the I)

100

What's the capital of Brazil?

Brasila

100

What color is a huckleberry?

Blue

100

What board game was originally called "Criss Cross"?

Scrabble

100

How many funnels did the Titanic have?

Four (three plus a false one, added to both it and the Lusitania for prestige)

200

Who did the U.S. Senate condemn on January 2,1954?

Sen. Joseph McCarthy

200

What U.S. city is at the junction of the "Allegheny and Monongahela" rivers?

Pittsburgh

200

What plant did St. Patrick use to explain the Trinity?

The Shamrock

200

What sport is central to Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon"?

Bull Fighting

200

What portable ice cream treat did a candy maker from Youngstown, Ohio invent? We used to listen for the bells on a summers day to get one???

Good Humor Bar

300

What did Aerospatiale of France and British Aircraft Corporation develop?

The Concord SST

300

A strait in southern Chile is named for what explorer?

Magellan

300

What's a common name for a flower's colorful corolla?

Petals

300

What swimmer won 28 Olympic medals in his career?

Michael Phelps (23 are gold)

300

What island off Georgia's coast was named for a famous pirate who frequented the area?

Blackbeard Island

400

What automobile was developed by Ferrico Lamb in 1963 to compete with the Ferrari?

Lamborghini

400

Located in Asia, what is the largest city in the Communist world?

Shanghai

400

What is your shirt made of if the fiber was produced by the gossypium shrub?

Cotton

400

The 1980 summer olympics were boycotted because of the USSR invasion of what country?

Afghanistan

400

What ancient British landmark is considered to be man's first celestial observatory?

Stonehenge

500

Where did the first atomic bomb explode?

New Mexico desert (site nicknamed "Trinity", 220 miles from Los Alamos)

500

What country would you have to visit to see the ruins of Troy?

Turkey

500

What plant family are the Cholla and Ocotillo a part of?

Cactus

500

Who's the only man to have won the Olympic Decathlon twice? RM

Robert Mathias

500

What basic product did a Thomas Edison company provide in the construction of Yankee Stadium?

Cement