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100

What is Charles Dickens' most popular novel?

Hint: it features 3 ghosts...

A Christmas Carol
100

What are the names of the two burglars in the movie Home Alone?   

Harry and Marv

100

What kind of tree grows acorns?

Oak Tree

100

What food never expires?

Honey

100

How many cards are in a standard deck of playing cards?

52 cards

200

What drink is made with milk and eggs?

Eggnog

200
In the movie "Hi Nanna," who first told Viraj that Yashna wanted a divorce?

Yashna's mother

200

Steven has $100 in pennies. How many pennies does he have?

10,000

200

What is Kimchi?

Fermented Korean vegetables (like cabbage/radish)

200

What is James Bond's code name?

007

300
What civilization is credited with the first New Year celebration?

Babylonians

300
Who played Belle in the 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast?

Emma Watson

300

What does the term “IQ” stand for?

Intelligence Quotient

300

What type of gas is dissolved in water to make fizzy water, or seltzer?

Carbon Dioxide

300

Put these Zodiac Signs in order from March 21.

Aries, Gemini, Scorpio, Capricorn, Pisces, Aquarius, Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Sagittarius, Libra, and Virgo.

Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces.

400

What year did the Gregorian calendar introduce January 1 as New Year's Day?

(Get it within 20 years to get a point)

1582

400

From the Disney movie "The Lion King," what does the phrase "Hakuna Matata" mean?

No worries, or no trouble. (Language Swahili) 

400

Costa Rica borders two countries. Nicaragua is one of the countries. What is the other?

Panama

400

What fruit has varieties called Bartlett and Anjou?

Pears
400

What is the only U.S. state that can be typed in using only one row of a standard “QWERTY” keyboard?

Row 1: Q W E R T Y U I O P

Row 2:   A S D F G H J K L

Row 3:    Z X C V B N M

Alaska

500

What is traditionally hidden inside a Christmas pudding? 

A silver coin, most often a sixpence
500

What are Steven Spielberg's 4 hit movies?

Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Jurrasic Park.

500

A word, phrase or sequence that reads the same forward and backward is called what?

A palindrome

Examples: "madam" "race car" "No lemon, no melon" (excluding spaces)




500

Where does the inventor of German chocolate cake actually come from?

Dallas, Texas

500

The name of this branch of mathematics comes from the Arabic word for "reuniting."

Algebra