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100

Known for its history of Vikings and the invention of LEGO, this country is located in Scandinavia.

What is Denmark?

100

This iconic stainless steel sculpture in Millennium Park is officially named Cloud Gate, but locals call it this food-related nickname.

What is "The Bean"?

100

Established in 1872, this park sitting atop a volcanic hotspot is widely considered the world’s first national park.

What is Yellowstone National Park?

100

I am lighter than a feather, yet the strongest person cannot hold me for much more than a few minutes.

What is breath?

100

This revolutionary leader, who served as Prime Minister and President of North Vietnam, is considered the founding father of modern Vietnam.

Who was Ho Chi Minh?

200

This East Asian country is known as the "Land of the Rising Sun".

What is Japan?

200

This catastrophic 1871 event allegedly started in a barn on DeKoven Street and destroyed over three square miles of the city.

What is the Great Chicago Fire?

200

This Florida park preserves a massive subtropical wetland that serves as a crucial habitat for the American alligator and the West Indian manatee.

What is Everglades National Park?

200

I have a spine but no bones.

What is a book?

200

This massive 1968 military campaign by North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War began on the Vietnamese New Year.

What is the Tet Offensive?

300

The capital of Canada is this city, not Toronto.

What is Ottawa?

300

This 1893 global event, held in Jackson Park, introduced the world to the Ferris Wheel and Juicy Fruit gum.

What is the World's Columbian Exposition? (or The Chicago World's Fair)

300

Straddling North Carolina and Tennessee, this park is the most visited in the United States.

What is Great Smoky Mountains National Park?

300

What has hands but cannot clap?

What is a clock?

300

He served as the President of the United States when the combat troops were first officially deployed to Vietnam in 1965.

Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?

400

This country refers to its citizens as "Kiwis".

What is New Zealand?

400

This world-class museum on Michigan Avenue is famously guarded by two bronze lion statues at its main entrance.

What is the Art Institute of Chicago?

400

Straddling California and Nevada, this desert park is the hottest, driest, and lowest national park in North America.

What is Death Valley National Park?

400

What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

What is the letter "M"?

400

This communist guerrilla force, also known as the National Liberation Front, fought against South Vietnam and U.S. forces.

Who were the Viet Cong?

500

This country is famous for producing coffee beans, potatoes, and bananas.

What is Colombia?

500

In 1929, Al Capone's gang famously ambushed a rival bootlegging crew on Valentine's Day in an event known by this grim name.

What is the St. Valentine's Day Massacre?

500

Half Dome and El Capitan are famous granite rock formations located in this iconic California valley.

What is Yosemite National Park?

500

I am a word of five letters. If you take away two, only one remains.

What is "Stone"? (Take away 's' and 't' to leave "one")

500

This intricate network of jungle paths running through Laos and Cambodia was used by North Vietnam to send troops and supplies southward.

What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?