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100

This sport is played with a round ball and 11 players on each team.

What is soccer?

100

This marine mammal uses echolocation to navigate and hunt prey.


What is a Dolphin?

100

This ancient food, created by fermenting soybeans with Aspergillus oryzae, is the base of miso and many Japanese broths.


What is koji?

100

This city is crossed by the Seine and is home to a tower nicknamed “the Iron Lady”.  


What is Paris?

100

This island nation is known for Mount Fuji, sushi, and high‑speed bullet trains.  


What is Japan?

200

This Jamaican athlete is known as the fastest man in the world.

Who is Usain Bolt?

200

This is the only mammal capable of true powered flight.


What is a Bat?

200

Harvested from the stigma of a crocus flower, this spice requires about 150 flowers to produce a single gram.


What is saffron?

200

 This city is famous for its Festival of Lights and its Fourvière hill.  


What is Lyon?

200

It spans 11 time zones and includes Siberia.  


What is Russia?

300

This famous tennis tournament is played on clay courts in Paris every year.


What is the French Open?

300

This egg-laying mammal from Australia has a duck-like bill.


What is a platypus?

300

This browning reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars gives seared meat

What is the Maillard reaction?

300

Founded by Greek settlers, this city features the Old Port and the basilica Notre‑Dame‑de‑la‑Garde.  


What is Marseille?

300

This country is home to kangaroos, the Outback, and the Great Barrier Reef.  


What is Australia?

400

 In this sport, a slam dunk is usually worth 2 points.

What is basketball?

400

The largest fish in the world shares part of its name with the largest mammal in the world.


What is the whale shark ?

400

Sometimes called “the mother of all grains,” this Andean seed is technically not a cereal but a pseudocereal.


What is quinoa?

400

Its brick buildings give it a unique color, and it is the center of European aerospace.  


What is Toulouse?

400

Located at the southern tip of Africa, it has 11 official languages.  

What is South Africa?

500

This country won the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

What is France?

500

This animal can hibernate up to seven months and recycles its own urea to prevent muscle loss.


What is the brown bear?

500

This subterranean fungus, hunted with trained dogs, can sell for thousands of euros per kilogram.


What is the white truffle?

500

This city hosts the European Parliament and is known for its Christmas market.  


What is Strasbourg?

500

Known for volcanoes, glaciers, and geothermal hot springs.  


What is Iceland?