This is an educated guess, based on evidence and past experience.
What is an inference?
100
New York
What is Albany?
100
James Naismith used peach baskets when creating this popular sport in 1891.
What is basketball?
100
The hottest planet in our solar system, temperatures here frequently surpass 800 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is Venus?
100
According to the popular Christmas song, what are Frosty The Snowman's eyes made out of?
What is coal?
200
This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
200
Florida
What is Tallahassee?
200
This sport features clubs, fairways, greens, and flags.
What is golf?
200
The only substance on Earth that is lighter as a solid than as a liquid.
What is water?
200
In sheet music, this clef places a G above middle C on the lowest line of the staff.
What is a treble clef?
300
This type of grammatical error is a string of multiple independent clauses that are not separated by end punctuation.
What is a run-on sentence?
300
Nebraska
What is Lincoln?
300
This bat-and-ball game is played between two teams of eleven players each, with a target called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps topped by two bails) at each end.
What is cricket?
300
The loudest sound in history was recorded in July 1883 when this occurred on the tiny Indian Ocean island of Krakatau.
What is a volcanic eruption?
300
Music has been known to affect blood pressure, breathing patterns, and the rate of __________ in listeners.
What is heart rate?
400
This "master of horror" wrote "The Raven," "The Masque of the Red Death," and "The Tell-Tale Heart."
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?
400
Nevada
What is Carson City?
400
In this game, an attacking player is considered offside if they have fewer than two defending players between them and the goal at the moment the ball is passed to them.
What is soccer?
400
This common weather occurrence can be four times hotter than the sun.
What is a lightning bolt?
400
This Broadway musical broke the record for Tony Award nominations in 2016, with 16.
What is Hamilton?
500
This famous playwright had his works performed mostly at The Globe theater in London, between 1592-1613.
Who is William Shakespeare?
500
Montana
What is Helena?
500
The rules of baseball mandate that this distance be exactly 60 feet six inches.
What is the distance between the pitcher's mound and home plate?
500
These arachnids use hydraulic pressure to move their legs.
What are spiders?
500
This composer wrote a large portion of his music while totally deaf.