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100
Entrances to this National Park were closed due to extreme flooding.
What is Yellowstone National Park? The devastating flooding that occurred along the Yellowstone River this week constitutes a 1 in 500-year event, according to a US Geological Survey (USGS) news release.
Unprecedented rain and rapid snowmelt in recent days have caused rivers in parts of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho to burst their banks, swallowing bridges and sweeping away entire sections of roadway.
100
This number of US states are landlocked.
What is 16? Sixteen are singly landlocked (you have to pass through one other state or Canadian province to reach the nearest ocean), Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennesee, Vermont, & West Virginia
100
This is the number of teeth does a dog has.
What is 28 teeth? 
100
Ernest Evans became famous after changing his name to what this.
What is Chubby Checker? He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including The Twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters' R&B song "The Twist"
100
This is the only number that has the same number of letters as it’s meaning.
What is Four?
200
This team beat the Boston Celtics to win the team's fourth NBA title in eight years.
Who are the Golden State Warriors? The Golden State Warriors are NBA champions once again, topping the Boston Celtics 103-90 on Thursday night for their fourth title in the last eight seasons.
200
This Great Lake is located entirely in the borders of the US.
What is Lake Michigan?
200
This country has a unicorn as part of its national emblem.
What is Scotland?
200
This man was known as the "King of Swing".
Who is Benny Goodman?
200
This number doesn’t have its own Roman numeral.
What is Zero?
300
FINA, the international governing body for the sport of ..?.., voted to ban transgender athletes from women’s elite competitions.
What is swimming? The new gender inclusion policy, which is set to go into effect on June 20, 2022, says that male-to-female transgender athletes will only be eligible to compete in the women's categories in FINA competitions if they transition before the age of 12 or before they reach stage two on the puberty Tanner Scale.
300
This is where can you find the world’s largest flat-top mountain.
Where is Colarado, The Grand Mesa?
300
This is an average of how many pounds of skin the average person lose in a given year.
What is 628 pounds of skin?
300
The names of the Andrews Sisters were LaVerne, Patty and this.
What is Maxine? Girl groups are nothing new. Throughout the 1940s The Andrews Sisters were one of America's most popular singing sister acts.
300
This is the only even prime number.
What is Two? A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways of writing it as a product, 1 × 5 or 5 × 1, involve 5 itself
400
A New York appeals court ruled that an ..?.. named Happy, who lives at the Bronx Zoo, is not a “person” and so her confinement at the zoo is not illegal.
What is an elephant? Happy the elephant may be intelligent and deserving of compassion, but she cannot be considered a person being illegally confined to the Bronx Zoo, New York’s top court ruled Tuesday.The 5-2 decision by the state Court of Appeals comes in a closely watched case that tested the boundaries of applying human rights to animals.
400
This is the flattest state in the US.
What is Florida?
400
The oldest tortoise is this many years old.
What is 189 years old? Jonathan, who is a Seychelles giant tortoise, at around 189 years old, he’s now the oldest-known animal in the world — and he’s living a relaxing life on the remote island of St. Helena in the South Atlantic, where he’s been since the late 1880s.
400
Bing Crosby performed with this band before hitting it big.
What is Dorsey Brothers? Many of the popular male singers of the 1940s started their careers singing with 1930s big bands.
400
This is the number of different combinations that a Rubix cube has.
What is 43 quintillion? Quintillion is the denomination used for large numbers. A quintillion is the number name for 10 raised to the power of 18, that is, one followed by 18 zeros. In the International numeral system, a quintillion has 6 groups of zeros in 3, that is, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000
500
Workers at this store in Maryland voted to form the tech company’s first retail union in the U.S.
What is Apple? Workers are seeking more input over pay and working conditions, like how the stores handle Covid safety and other operations. The vote is a defeat for Apple, which has opposed unionization efforts, and could energize workers at the company’s other retail locations to move forward with organizing.
500
‘Canada’ means this.
What is Indian village? The name “Canada” likely comes from the Huron-Iroquois word “kanata,” meaning “village” or “settlement.” In 1535, two Aboriginal youths told French explorer Jacques Cartier about the route to kanata; they were actually referring to the village of Stadacona, the site of the present-day City of Québec. For lack of another name, Cartier used the word “Canada” to describe not only the village, but the entire area controlled by its chief, Donnacona.
500
The term "Piano" means this.
What is to be played softly?
500
This foursome, a fore-runner of the doo-wop groups of the 1950s, had hits with "Shout Brother Shout", "Cow-Cow Boogie" and "Whispering Grass".
Who are The Ink Spots? 
500
Every odd number has this letter in it.
What is an “E”?