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100

What is the chemical symbol for Potasssium?

K

100

What is the largest country in Asia?

Russia

100

What was the name of the first president in the U.S.?

George Washington

100

A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg?

Polar Express

100

What is the most popular sport in Texas?

Football

200

What is the name of the boundary where 2 plates move away from each other?

A divergent boundary

200

In what European capital city would you find the landmark known as the Spanish Steps?

Rome

200

In May 2003, the fastest known speeding ticket in US history was handed out, with a Swedish sports car allegedly going 242 MPH in a 75 MPH zone. Fittingly, in what state did this occur? I suppose everything's bigger, and everything's faster there.

Texas

200

"Goose," "Jester," "Hollywood," and "Wolfman" are nicknames of some flying military bros in what 1986 movie?

Top Gun

200

Known by a nickname that nowadays would more likely be applied to a woman, newborn, or even a famous pig, which legendary left-handed American sportsman had the little-used first names "George Hermann"?

Babe Ruth

300

What type of virus at a Chipotle near the Boston College campus sent over 80 students, including much of the men's basketball team, to the hospital in the fall of 2015?

Norovirus

300

Which term with Greek and Italian roots describes a collection or chain of islands, such as the Bahamas, the Maldives, and the Galápagos?

Archipelago

300

From 2000 to 2008, U.S. "golden" dollar coins were minted with an image of what Shoshone woman who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition?

Sacagawea

300

 What animated movie's opening scene features a rising sun, an array of wildlife, and a song with the Zulu lyrics: "Nants ingonyama bagithi baba?" (It's a kids movie)

Lion King

300

The National Sports Act of Canada granted two different sports as the official sports of Canada. One is, unsurprisingly, hockey. What is the other?

Lacrosse

400

What creature with an equine name has no teeth or stomach, mates for life, and is the only species on Earth where the male carries the unborn offpsring?

Seahorse

400

Located on the south of Honshu and the northern shore of Osaka Bay, what K-word Japanese city gave its name to a type of beef and a famous Los Angeles Laker?

Kobe, Japan

400

What is the name of the island that Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to the FIRST time he was exiled?

Elba

400

Which 1983 film (based on the book of the same name by S.E. Hinton) about rival gangs in Oklahoma in the ‘60s was chock full of young stars including Tom Cruise, Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, and Emilio Estevez?

The Outsiders

400

In fencing what is meant by the term "The Smirnov Incident?"

Accidental death of a fencer

500

What is the common name for photoreceptor cells in the human eye that are often considered a pair with rod cells?

Cone cells

500

Also the area code in Fayetteville, North Carolina, what three-digit number covers Geography and Travel in the Dewey Decimal System?

910

500

Both celebrated progressive Robert La Follette and Communist-hunter Joseph McCarthy were Republican senators from what U.S. state?

Wisconsin

500

"Good Night, and Good Luck", "The Ides of March", and "The Monuments Men" are among the movies that have been directed by what man, who is better known as an actor?

George Clooney

500

An "inning" is one of nine periods of play in the sport of baseball (or seven periods of play in softball). An "innings"--with an s--is a period of play in what other sport? In some versions of this sport, a game consists of four innings over several days.

Cricket