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100

The largest active volcano in the world is located where?

Krakatau in Indonesia

Stromboli in Italy

Mauna Loa in Hawaii


Mauna Loa in Hawaii


100

Which writer penned 'The Raven' (1845)?

Edgar Allen Poe

100

Beethoven, Al Capone, and Louis XIV are all thought to have suffered from what disease?

Syphilis

Pneumonia

TB

Cancer

Syphilis

100

What is the boiling point of water at sea level?

175 F

194 F

200 F

212 F

212 degrees Fahrenheit


100

Which parody award show gives out awards to the year’s worst movies and movie actors?

The Golden Raspberry Awards, aka the Razzies or the Razzie Awards

300

Tourists can swim in the sea with pigs in which country?

Bahamas



300

According to the title of a 1972 song by The Temptations, “Papa Was a” what?

Rolling Stone

300

Who was the ancient Egyptian sun god?  

Horus

Ra

Osiris

Heka

Ra -god of sun

Horus - god of sky

Osiris - god of life and death

Heka - god of magic and medicine

300

Forces are measured in units called?

Joules

Newtons

Amps

Ohms


Newtons

300

What does VHS stand for?

Video Home System




500

Angel Falls, the tallest waterfall in the world, is located in which country?

Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Peru

 

Venezuela

500

Samuel Langhorne Clemens is the birth name of which famous American author?

Mark Twain

500

During the American Civil Rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists led a historic march that ended in Montgomery, Alabama and started in which city?

Selma, Alabama

500

An egg-shaped galaxy is called?

Oval

Circular

Elliptical

Oblong

Elliptical


500

Michael Myers is the villain of which horror movie franchise?

 

Halloween


750

Goulash is a beef soup associated with what nation?



Hungary

750

Beethoven, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were all what?

Composers
750

The Secret Annex where Anne Frank and her family hid is located in which city or country? (I'll accept either.)

Warsaw, Poland

Frankfurt, Germany

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Amsterdam, The Netherlands



750

Name the occupation of a person who studies or is an expert in the branch of zoology concerned with insects.


Entomologist

750

Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?

Hattie McDaniel from Gone With The Wind


1000

Truth or Consequences is a town located in which US state?

Colorado

Arizona

Utah

New Mexico

New Mexico


1000

Which writer’s autobiography was titled “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

May Angelou

Ann Frank



 

Maya Angelou

1000

The first year on record that Mount Everest was climbed was 1953. T/F?


True

1000

What do you call a grouping of apes?

Family

Tribe

Pod

Assembly

A tribe or shrewdness

1000

Whitney Houston’s hit “I will always love you,” was originally written and performed by which musician?

Dolly Parton

Carole King

Burt Bacharach

Joni Mitchell 

Dolly Parton