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100

In June and July, the US, Canada, and Mexico will team up to host this tournament, now featuring teams from 48 different nations.

What is the FIFA World Cup?

100

In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy famously tells her dog, Toto, that they're not in this state anymore.

What is Kansas?

100

This Third Ward native was recently declared a billionaire, according to Forbes.

Who is Beyoncé?

100

This is the hardest substance naturally found on Earth.

What is diamond?

100

Kendrick Lamar was joined by SZA as he performed at the halftime show of Super Bowl LIX in this city in February 2025.

What is New Orleans, Louisiana?

200

On July 4, 2026, the US will celebrate its “semiquincentennial,” marking this many years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

What is 250?

200

In his 1963 'I Have a Dream' speech, Dr. King hoped his children would be judged not by the color of their skin, but by this phrase.

What is ”the content of their character?”

200

The largest of its kind, this Houston parade officially began in April 1988.

What is the Art Car Parade?

200

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

What is Pompeii?

200

In May 2025, Pope Leo XIV was elected the 267th head of the Catholic Church and the first from this country.

What is the United States?

300

NASA’s Artemis II mission is set to launch this year, carrying four people to do a “flyby” of this celestial body for the first time in over fifty years.

What is the Moon?

300

It was on this mission where Jack Swigert said the famous phrase “Houston, we have a problem.”

What is the Apollo 13 mission?

300

Completed in 1982, the JPMorgan Chase Tower lost its status as the tallest building in Texas to a new skyscraper in this city.

What is Austin, Texas?

300

This animal is the largest mammal in the world.

What is the blue whale?

300

This group was named TIME’s 2025 “Person of the Year.”

Who are the Architects of AI?

400

Scheduled for February 2026, the Winter Olympics will be hosted by Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo is this country.

What is Italy?

400

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark contemplates life and death with this famous six-word opening line.

What is “To be, or not to be?”

400

This waterway was initially named after the Spanish term for the “Bay of the Holy Spirit.”

What is Buffalo Bayou?

400

In February 2011, this IBM supercomputer made history by defeating Jeopardy! legends Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.

What is Watson?

400

For the first time ever, this fossil fuel was replaced by renewable energy as the world’s leading source of electricity in 2025.

What is coal?

500

For Lunar New Year, February 2026 will mark the transition from the Year of the Wood snake to the year of what animal.

What is the horse?

500

At this event, President John F. Kennedy instructed Americans to “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”

What is the Presidential Inauguration?

500

The Texas Medical Center was originally made possible by this cotton broker and philanthropist whose name is still tied to the system today.

Who is M.D. Anderson?
500

Light from the sun approximately takes this amount of time to reach the Earth.

What is eight minutes?

500

Because of her “civilian courage and tireless fight for a peaceful democratic transition in her home country,“ Maria Corina Machado from this nation won the Nobel Peace Prize in October 2025.

What is Venezuela?