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100

This state was once a republic, its own country

Who are "Texas"?

100

The word "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia" describes the fear of this.  

What is "long words"?

100

Before his acting career, he was a bodybuilder and competed in Mr. Universe.

Who is "Arnold Schwarzenegger"?

100

Financial success has been proven when these type of eateries exist due to limiting required waiting staff, quick table turnovers, and no wait for food.

What is "all-you-can-eat-buffet"?

100

This animal can survive being frozen solid and then thawed alive.

What is the "wood frog"?

200

The famous "Gunfight At The OK Corral" pitted the Clanton family and their associates against legendary lawman Wyatt Earp and other family members and this friend who was a dentist.

who is "Doc Holliday"?

200

The world’s largest desert, covering about 3.5 million square miles.

What is the "Sahara?"

200

He joined the "Pender Troupe" of traveling performers where he trained as an acrobat, stilt walker, juggler, and mime.

Who is "Cary Grant"?

200

This nut is actually a seed that grows inside a fruit called a drupe.

What is a "cashew"?

200

These animals can sleep for up to three years at a time.

What is "snails"?

300

World War I was popularity known during the conflict by this phrase. 

What is "The War To End All Wars?"

300

1,000 years ago, this group was the first to settle North American from Europe before the Pilgrims arrived.

What is "Vikings?"

300

Before acting in this actor played professional football in Canada.

Who is "Mel Gibson?"

300

The world’s most expensive spice, it is derived from the stigma of a specific flower.

What is "saffron"?

300

A deadly neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin found in this fish is 1,200 times more poisonous than cyanide when improperly prepared.

What is "pufferfish"?

400

Before social security and welfare programs, this group took care of the aged and poor.

What are "families"?

400

This is the only letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S. state name.

What is "Q"?

400

Before starring in the television series "The Rifleman", this actor played professional baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949 and the Chicago Cubs in 1951, and basketball from 1946–48 in the NBA with the Boston Celtics. 

Who is "Chuck Conners?"

400

This edible fungus is one of the most expensive foods in the world, often used in gourmet dishes.

What is "truffle'?

400

Known as the only food that never spoils, honey has been found in these ancient tombs, still edible after millennia.

What is "Egyptian"?

500

Jeanette Rankin from Montana was the first women to be elected to this position.

What is "Congress"?

500

There are only two U.S. states that do not observe Daylight Saving Time. One is Hawaii; the other is this. 

What is "Arizona"?

500

This actor was a professional circus acrobat in the 1930s, performing in a trapeze act with Nick Cravat in a duo called "Lang and Cravat" before his breakthrough in Hollywood. 

Who is "Burt Lancaster"?


500

Despite its tropical origins, pineapple is actually a cluster of many flowers whose individual fruitlets fuse together around a central core.

What are "pineapples"?

500

After Albert Einstein's death in 1955, this was experimented on to analyze what made him excel in physics.

What is "his brain"?