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100

How many Hershey's kisses are made each day?

What is 80,000,000.

100

The cover of the best-selling book Freakonomics features these two 'distinct' objects.


What is an apple and an orange?


100

In Astronomy, this is the term for a minor celestial body that shares an orbit with a larger body.

What is Trojan?


100

True of False: Abraham Lincoln was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.  

What is True, he played in over 300 matches and lost only one.

100

Living things are found here?


What is the Troposphere.

200

What country eats the most lollipops each year?

(2.4,000,000,000)

What is the United States.

200

This most-rejected 1974 bestseller describes the 17-day journey of the author (who calls himself Phaedrus) and his son Chris from Minnesota to California.


What is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig?


200

German engineer Arthur Scherbius invented the first of these machines extensively used during WWII.


What is the Enigma machines?


200

How many Dum Dums are made every single day?

What is 12,000,000 Dum Dumbs every day.

200

What is the coldest level in the atmosphere?

What is the mesosphere.

300

True of False: When gummy bears were first made, they weren't supposed to be chewy.

What is True, Gummy Bears weren't supposed to be hard. They were originally called "Gold Bears".

300

The story of this acclaimed 1962 novel is that of writer Anna Wulf who keeps a record of her life in four journals and attempt to tie them all together in a fifth one.


What is The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing?


300

English physician John Snow successfully traced the outbreak of this disease to a water pump.


What is cholera?


300

How many days late were the Russians to the 1908 Olympics? 

What is 12 days late (They were using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar).

300

This is found in the stratosphere and protects us from harmful UV rays?

What is the ozone layer.

400

What candy company produced the symphony bar in 1988?

What is Hershey's Candy Company.

400

The following dialogue, potent enough to make one give up quizzing, is addressed to Guy Montag in this dystopian classic of the 20th century? "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they fell stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change."


What is Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury?


400

In a 1999 poll conducted by the British journal Physics World, this person is the only American in the list of the ten greatest physicists of all time.


What is the inimitable Dr. Richard Feynman (1918-88).


400

How long was the shortest war ever? 

 Lasting only 38 minutes, the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896 is generally considered to be the shortest war in history.

400

This layer of the atmosphere where planes fly?

What is the stratosphere.

500

How many different Skittles colors are there in one package?

What is five.

500

The 1994 murder of a 14-year-old girl for ritualistic purposes in Botswana inspired the first book of this best-selling series.


What is The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith?


500

The baryon asymmetry problem in physics deals with the anomaly of why the universe has any matter at all and why it is not filled with photons only. This is because the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of this.


What is matter and antimatter?


500

What is a group of flamingos called?

What is a flamboyance.

500

In this layer of the atmosphere, you will find the Aurora Borealis?

What is the thermosphere.