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100

Known also as “The Divine Miss M,” she’s a singer and dramatic and comedic actress. She stars in the movie Beaches.

Who is Bette Midler? 


She released her first album The Divine Miss M when she was in her mid-20s, and she won a Grammy for Best New Artist.

100

This author and playwright lived in a basement apartment while finishing Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood.

Who is Truman Capote?

100

I can’t believe it’s not this dairy product.

What is butter?

100

This country is home to Kim Jung Un

What is North Korea? It’s known as the world’s most secretive country.

100

In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?

What is 1989?

200

Humphrey Bogart’s wife grew up in Canada and was known as Betty to her friends

Who is Lauren Bacall? The two met when Bacall was 19 and Bogart was 45. Country Living magazine reported, “Their May-December romance will go down in history as one of Hollywood’s most glamorous marriages.”

200

He inhabited Graceland (Memphis, Tennessee).

Today, it’s a museum, and in 1991, it became a national landmark 

Who is Elvis Presley?

200

This transdermal invention to help with quitting smoking was invented in 1984

What is a nicotine patch?

200

Wellington is the capital of this island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. Its official bird is the kiwi.

What is New Zealand? Humans make up five percent of the country’s inhabitants, and animals make up the other 95 percent

200

How many manned moon landings have there been?

What is 6?

300

This first lady entered rehabilitation for alcohol and drug addiction after her husband left office. Later, she opened a drug rehab center near Los Angeles

Who is Betty Ford?

300

He was the famous owner of the Playboy Mansion (Beverly Hills, California).

Who is Hugh Hefner?

300

This invention that succeeded the cassette tape was developed in the 1980s

What is CD or compact disc?

300

Incorrectly known as Holland, this is the official name of the European country

What is the Netherlands? 

Holland correctly refers to one region of the country. Amsterdam became the capital of the Netherlands in 1983; before that, the Hague was the capital.

300

What was the bloodiest single-day battle during the American Civil War?

The Battle of Antietam

400

She plays Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls

Who is Betty White? 

She also gives a heartwarming performance as a war widow in the 2011 film The Lost Valentine

400

He was the owner of the Neverland Ranch (Los Olivos, California).

Who is Michael Jackson? 


After Jackson’s death, it sold in 2020 for 22.2 million dollars.

400

In 1982, an artificial and temporary replacement for this organ was invented to keep patients alive while they awaited a transplant.

What is heart?

400

This is a Scandinavian country that is one of the “Land of the Midnight Sun” countries.

What is Norway? 


The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo, Norway.

400

Which U.S. president took part in the Potsdam Conference, where the Allies reached a peace settlement with Germany

Who was Harry S. Truman?

500

She co-founded the National Organization for Women and authored The Feminine Mystique. She is an icon of the women’s rights movement.

She wrote The Feminine Mystique after she was fired for being pregnant with her second child. She also co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus 

Who is Betty Friedan? 



500

This author of the classic novels The Sun Also Rises, The Old Man and the Sea, and many others had a famous home in Key West, Florida. It is now a museum. The New York Times dubbed it “Papaland.”

Who is Ernest Hemingway?

500

Tab diet soda was the immediate predecessor to this popular diet soda.

What is Diet Coke?

500

This Central American country was home to the Sandinistas during the 1970s and ’80s.

What is Nicaragua?

500

What did the abbreviation RMS stand for in the RMS Titanic in 1912?

What is Royal Mail Ship?