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100

This is the official language of Brazil.

What is Portuguese?

100

This 1990 Christmas movie features a boy named Kevin  McCallister.

What is Home Alone?

100

This famous band from Liverpool was made up of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

Who are The Beatles?

100

This Jamaican sprinter holds the men’s world records for both the 100m and 200m.

Who is Usain Bolt?

100

This many months of the year have 28 days.

What is 12?

200

This is the language the word “emoji” originated from.

What is Japanese?

200

The sitcom stars Will Smith living with his wealthy aunt and uncle.

What is the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?

200

This British singer released the albums 21, 25 and 30.

Who is Adele?

200

In cricket, this term describes a batter being dismissed without scoring a single run.

What is a duck?

200

If there are three apples and you take away two, this is how many apples you have.

What is two?

300

This is the literary term for two contradictory words used together, such as “deafening silence.”

What is an oxymoron?

300

This 1995 teen comedy made famous the phrase “As if!”

What is Clueless?

300

This rock band released the hugely successful 1977 album ”Rumours.”

Who are Fleetwood Mac?

300

In Formula 1, this coloured flag signals that a driver has been disqualified and must return to the pits.

What is the black flag?

300

An electric train is travelling north while the wind blows east. It’s smoke blows in this direction.

What is nowhere? Electric trains don’t produce smoke.

400

In American slang, someone “jonesing” for something is experiencing this intense feeling.

What is a craving?

400

She became New Zealand’s first female prime minister in 1997.

Who is Jenny Shipley?

400

Complete the lyrics of this 1991 hit by Nirvana: “With the lights out, it’s less ________?”

What is dangerous?

400

This country won the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

What is Spain?

400

This is something you can hold in your left hand but cannot hold in your right hand.

What is your right elbow?

500

This is the proper name for the little dot above a lowercase “i” or “j.”

What is a tittle?

500

This 1994 film features the famous line, “All right, all right, all right.”

What is Dazed and Confused?

500

This British post-punk band released the album “Unknown Pleasures” in 1979.

Who are Joy Division?

500

This New Zealand boxer won the country’s first official Olympic gold medal at the 1928 Amsterdam Games.

Who is Ted Morgan?