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100

Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington D.C.

United States

100
From whom did the United States win their independence?

Great Britain

100

What organelle generates energy for a cell?

mitochondria

100

Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Remus Lupin

Harry Potter series

100

Whose portrait is on the $1 bill?

George Washington

200

London, Birmingham, Liverpool

England (UK)

200

Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation?

Abraham Lincoln

200

Name one of the only two mammals to lay eggs.

echidna & platypus

200

Frodo Baggins, Aragorn, Gandalf the Grey

Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring)

200

What breed of dog is Queen Elizabeth a notorious fan of?

corgis

300

Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu

China

300

Name any of the 4 presidents who were assassinated in office.

Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, John F. Kennedy

300

What does an anaerobic organism not require for survival that humans do?

oxygen

300

Scout Finch, Atticus Finch, Boo Radley

To Kill a Mockingbird

300

George Foreman, Bud Crawford, Jack Dempsey, and Mike Tyson are all famous athletes in what sport?

boxing
400

Munich, Hamburg, Berlin

Germany

400

The Statue of Liberty welcomed immigrants who entered the United States through what port of entry?

Ellis Island

400

A lack of blood supply to the brain can lead to what dangerous, possibly fatal, condition?

stroke

400

Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Haymitch Abernathy

The Hunger Games trilogy

400

What loaner word from Japanese translates literally to "empty orchestra"?

karaoke

500

Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia

Spain

500

The sinking of the Lusitania by a German U Boat in 1915 was a major contributing factor to U.S. involvement in what war?

World War I (the Great War)

500

Give an example of a vestigial structure or organ in humans.

appendix, wisdom teeth, tonsils, auricular (ear) muscles, palmaris longis (that muscle in the inner forearm), tailbone

500
Athos, Porthos, Aramis

The Three Musketeers

500

What was the first city in the United States to be planned out on a grid system?

Savannah, Georgia