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100

This city was destroyed in 79 CE due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

What is Pompeii?

100

This kid's lit classic has a chapter called “The Puppies Arrive”.

What is The Hundred and One Dalmatians?

100

The smallest and shallowest of the world’s five oceans is this one.

What is the Arctic?

100

This geologic formation may be found overhead if you are in a cave.

What are stalactites?

100

Burt Bacharach and Elvis played street musicians (with a grand piano) in this title guy's The Spy Who Shagged Me.

Who is Austin Powers?

200

Published in 1783, his American Spelling Book preceded his famous dictionary by 45 years.

Who is Noah Webster?

200

“I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear”, begins 2000’s Fever 1793, about an epidemic of this disease.

What is yellow fever?

200

Number of states that touch the Pacific Ocean

What is five?


200

What do you call the study of weather, climate and the atmosphere?

Meteorology

200

This Canadian artist wrote the international hit, "Sorry."

Who is Justin Bieber?

300

The Berlin Wall fell in November of this year.  

When is 1989?

300

This Narnian lion appears in several other forms, including a lamb.

Who is Aslan?

300

Wyoming’s largest lake, it lies right in the middle of a national park.

What is Yellowstone Lake?

300

These are the only two planets in our solar system that do not have moons.

What are Mercury and Venus?

300

This song was the first to ever be performed in outer space.

What is “Happy Birthday”?

400

After more than 150 years, he's still the tallest president in U.S history.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

400

Welcome to Dead House from 1992 was the first of the books in the Goosebumps series by this author who by now has sold a spooky number of copies.

Who is R.L. Stine?

400

The King James Bible refers to it as the Salt Sea.

What is the Dead Sea?

400

What animal kills the most humans each year?

The mosquito

400

In what movie is Aretha Franklin a waitress who sings the song “Think"?

“The Blues Brothers”

500

In 1864, this man became a lieutenant general and assumed command of all U.S. armies.

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

500

1944’s Absent in the Spring is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott.

Who is Agatha Christie?

500

The city of Chiang Mai in this country is home to Baan Chang Elephant Park.

What is Thailand?

500

Atoms of the same chemical element but with different atomic masses are known as what?

Isotopes

500

She had a #1 hit in each year of the 90s—the only singer to do so.

Who is Mariah Carey?