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25% of the cheese in the US is made in this one state.

What is Wisconsin?

100

This city, once named for Emperor Constantine, currently goes by this name.

What is Istanbul?

100

This Bronte sister, though less prolific than her sisters, wrote the well known work "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," which is considered one of the first feminist novels.

Who is Anne?

100

Kenya's two official languages are Swahili, and this language.

What is English?

100

Atomically, this is number one.

What is Hydrogen?

200

This type of cheese is named for the region where Don Quiote fought windmills.

What is Manchego?

200

The constellation Ursa Minor, of Lesser Bear, is most commonly called this.

What is The Little Dipper?

200

This Author, born to a white French general and a black slave wrote some of the 19th century's most famous novels including "The Three Musketeers."

Who is Alexander Dumas?

200

The three official languages of Belgium are Dutch, French, and this language.

What is German?

200

Dimitri Mendleev, a Russian Chemst, introduced this in 1869.  His version had only 60, a far cry from today's 118.

What is the Periodic Table of Elements?

300

Havarti is originally from this country.

What is Denmark?

300

The Pleides, or seven sisters, is what we call the a cluster of seven stars in the night sky. In Japan it's this: also the name and star pattern, to a very popular brand of car among outdoors enthusiasts.

What is Subaru?

300

This novel, often confused for a science fiction novella of nearly the same name by H.G. Wells, deals with the identity of the African American Male.

What is "Invisible Man"?

300

Spoken on the most populous island on Earth, Java, this language has nearly 70 million speakers.

What is Javanese?

300

The five elements of nature are: Air, Fire, Water, Earth, and this often forgotten element.

What is space?

400

In vegan cooking this is often used as a cheese substitute.

What is Nutritional Yeast?

400

Until 1868, This Asian capital was commonly known as Edo.

What is Tokyo?

400

The Colombia born Gabriel Garcia Marquez published this most famous work in 1967.

What is "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?

400

The four most spoken Indian languages are Telagu, Maranthi, Bengali, and this language.

What is Hindi?

400

When a star dies and goes nova, it scatters many elements into the surrounding space.  This element, labeled Au, is the densest it scatters.

What is gold?

500

This is the amount of milk, in pounds, it takes to produce just 1 pound of cheese.

What is 10?

500

April of 2018 saw this African country change it's name to Kingdom of eSwatini.

What is Swaziland?

500

In the work "Bleak House", by Charles Dickens, the landlord is said to have died due to this surprising phenomenon.

What is Spontaneous Combustion?

500

As an official language of both Sri Lanka and Singapore, this language is most well-known for an uprising in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka in an attempt to establish an independent state.

What is Tamil?

500

These seven gases on the periodic table were once believed to be inert, or nonreactive.

What are the Noble Gases?