This country is hosting the Summer Olympics this year.
What is Brazil? Tokyo, Japan, will host the next summer Olympics in 2020.
100
Plants absorb this gas that humans exhale.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
In the 1970s, this British group, also known as the Fab Four, released its last album.
What is the Beatles? They released their final album, Let It Be, in 1970. The group never reunited in concert.
100
This city is home to the Walk of Fame.
What is Hollywood? Celebrities can have more than
one star. Gene Autry has five stars in the following categories:
Radio, Recording, Motion Pictures, Television, and Live
Recordings Including Rodeo Performances.
100
This is the universal color of mourning in the Western world.
What is black? Mourning colors in other parts of the world include yellow in
Egypt, blue in Korea, purple in Thailand, and gray in New Guinea.
200
This is the longest river in South America.
What is the Amazon River? The river is 4,049 miles long and runs through six
countries: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
200
In 1905, the word meaning “fog and smoke” entered
the lexicon.
What is smog?
200
In 1971, this amusement park in Orlando, Florida, opened.
What is Disney World?
200
This country is the home of basketball’s inventor.
What is Canada? The game was invented in 1891 by Canadian James Naismith.
Its debut was in the United States at the YMCA Training School, but it has its roots in
Canada.
200
Name one of the top three colors used on national flags.
What is red, white, or blue? No other colors come close to the three most popular
ones.
300
Quito is the capital of this country.
What is Ecuador? Quito is the second-highest capital city in the world and the
first city named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
300
The U.S. government set up this agency to
safeguard the environment.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA? Many countries have
similar administrative organizations.
300
In 1972, this American beat Russian Boris Spassky in a chess tournament in
Reykjavik, Iceland.
Who is Bobby Fischer?
300
This city was the original home of the Dodgers baseball team
What is Brooklyn? Today the franchise is based in Los Angeles.
300
The colors that symbolize Mardi Gras are gold, green, and
this color.
What is purple? According to the official Mardi Gras site,
purple represents justice, green represents faith, and gold
represents power.
400
This mountain range in South America is the longest mountain range in the world.
What is the Andes? The Andes is more than 1,000 miles longer than the Rockies.
400
California will try to ban this type of grocery bag through a referendum in the
November election.
What is plastic?
400
This Triple-Crown winner won the hearts of the nation in 1973.
What is Secretariat? This was the first horse to win the Triple Crown since 1948.
The 1970s saw two other Triple Crown winners later in the decade.
400
This state is home to a water tower in the shape of a big peach known as “The
Peachoid.”
What is South Carolina? The Peachoid is a landmark honoring the peach-farming
community.
400
Barns were originally painted red because the paint contained this metal to protect
them against the elements.
What is iron oxide? The original recipe is believed to have contained skimmed
milk, lime, and red iron oxide.
500
Only two countries in South America are landlocked. Name one of them.
What is Bolivia or Paraguay?
500
New forms of energy such as wind, water, and solar are called this, as opposed to
sources such as coal, natural gas, and oil, which are finite.
What is renewable?
500
In 1973, this Chicago skyscraper opened and took “the
tallest building in the world” away from the World Trade Center in New York.
What is the Sears Tower? Today, the tallest skyscraper is
Burj Khalifa in Dubai, but it will be surpassed by a new tower under
construction at Dubai Creek Harbor.
500
This North American country is home to the wealthiest middle class in the world.
What is Canada?
500
Etiquette dictates that a female guest should never wear this color to a wedding.
What is white? It detracts from the bride, and it’s her day.