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100
What was the name of Harry Potter's pet owl?
Hedwig
100
Air Force One is a plane used by the holder of which position?
President of the USA
100
What colour are emeralds?
Green
100
What colour belt are martial arts experts expected to wear?
Black
100
What letter do cars from Germany have on them when travelling abroad to show what country they came from?
D
200
Who picked a peck of pickled peppers?
Peter Piper
200
What overall term is given to the people who fought each other and animals as entertainment in Ancient Rome?
Gladiators
200
What name is given to the collection of 22 bones found in the head?
The skull
200
What sort of animal is the video game character Sonic?
A hedgehog
200
In which US city would you find Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx?
New York
300
Which artist painted a number of pictures of sunflowers?
Vincent van Gogh
300
What title was given to the rulers of Ancient Egypt?
Pharaoh
300
The name for which group of prehistoric animals comes from the Greek for 'terrible lizard'?
Dinosaur
300
What is the name of the Australian throwing stick that can return to the thrower?
Boomerang
300
In which country does the River Nile meet the sea?
Egypt
400
What is the name of Peter Pan's piratical enemy?
Captain James Hook
400
What colour are the benches in the UK's House of Commons?
Green
400
What is the term for when the moon passes between the earth and the sun, blocking out light from the latter?
A solar eclipse
400
In which sport might you do a slam dunk?
Basketball
400
Which trains travel to Europe from London's St Pancras Station?
Eurostar
500
Who has a dog named Snowy and is friends with Captain Haddock?
Tintin
500
What famous structure was built on Salisbury Plain (in England) in the third millennium BC?
Stonehenge
500
Which stone, a form of calcium carbonate, are the White Cliffs of Dover (on England's south coast) made of?
Chalk
500
Ping-pong is an alternative name for which sport?
Table Tennis
500
Kabul is the capital of which country?
Afghanistan