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200

It's another word for a toilet.

What is commode?

200

This president was a peanut farmer prior to taking on the Executive Office.

Who is Jimmy Carter?

200

Of the four authors of the Gospels, the only one that was not one of the named twelve disciples.

Who is Mark?

200

This protest movement and slogan actually began in 2013 after the killer of Trayvon Martin was found not guilty. The slogan gained prominence and peaked in 2020 after the death of George Floyd.

What is Black Lives Matter?

200

This famous salt lake is bordered by Jordan to the east and the West Bank and Israel to the west. 

What is the Dead Sea?

200

The long-running television gameshow in which the host proclaims, "survey says" before an answer is revealed.

What is Family Feud?

400

This cable channel is famous for celebrity roasts, The Daily Show and South Park.

What is Comedy Central?

400

I'm not sure about the cartoon cat, but this president was the first left-handed president of the U.S.

Who is James Garfield?

400

The genealogy of Jesus, presented in this Gospel, includes references to five women, including two prostitutes, and adulteress, a widowed-Moabite, and Mary. It represents a break from Hebrew tradition in which genealogies often traced males only.

What is Matthew?

400

In 2018, Michael became the first hurricane of this category rating to hit the US coast since 1992.

What is a Category 5?

400

This freshwater lake situated in the Scottish Highlands is the largest lake in the United Kingdom.

What is Loch Ness?

400

This is the word for a survey in which every individual in a population is counted or asked a question.

What is a census?

600

In Roman mythology, twin brothers Remus and he, are often depicted as suckling milk from a she-wolf and whose story includes the founding of Rome.

Who is Romulus?

600

These two distantly related presidents were the first to ride in a car and the first to ride in a plane.

Who are Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt?

600

This Gospel is the longest of the four, coming in at 28 chapters. It is often paired with Acts to represent a two volume accounting of the life Christ and the founding of the early Church after his resurrection and ascension.

What is Luke?

600

In 2016, the British voted to leave the European Union, a movement dubbed this.

What is Brexit?

600

This waterfall on the Zambezi River in southern Africa, is located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe and is one of the world's largest waterfalls, with a width of just over a mile. 

What is Victoria Falls?

600

Political surveys, trying to assess how voters might vote in a future election, are also called this.

What is a poll?

800

These clothing options are one-piece and can either be short-legged or long-legged.

What are rompers?

800

The eighth president, with a two-word last name, is sometimes credited with creating the expression "OK." Being from Kinderhook, New York, during his campaign, Old Kinderhook (O.K.) clubs formed to support the president. Later "OK" came to mean "all right." 

Who is Martin Van Buren?

800

This Gospel account is the only one that is not a synoptic Gospel, meaning the other three can be "seen together", having similar stories and order of accounting of events.

What is John?

800

In 2016, this baseball team won the World Series, breaking the longest drought in baseball of 108 years since the teams prior World title.

Who are the Chicago Cubs?

800

This is an inland marginal sea of both the Arctic and Atlantic oceans located north of Ontario and West of Quebec. It is named after an English explorer who was sailing for the Dutch East India Company.

What is Hudson Bay?

800

This is the term for the subset of a population when surveying less than every member of the population, it's also a word associated with collection of liquids or material for later analysis.

What is a sample?

1000

Ruling jointly with his father, Marcus Aurelius, for three years and then as the sole emperor for another twelve years, he is commonly thought to mark the end of Pax Romana, a golden age of peace and prosperity for Rome.

Who is Commodus?

1000

This president holds two distinctions, delivering the longest inaugural speech, at 8,445 words taking nearly two hours to deliver, and the shortest presidential term, he died of pneumonia just 31 days into his term.

Who is William Henry Harrison?

1000

This Gospel is the only to record magi or wise men visiting a young Jesus after His birth.

What is Matthew?

1000

A terrorist attack at this event occurred on April 15, 2013, in which the Tsarnaev brothers set off pressure-cooker bombs, killing three and injuring over 250.

What is the Boston Marathon?

1000

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata derives its name from an 1832 description of the first movement by poet and music critic Ludwig Rellstab, who compared it to moonlight shining upon this lake located in central Switzerland, made famous by the many views of it from various tourist destinations around its shores.

What is Lake Lucerne?

1000

Surveyors work hard to try to reduce or eliminate this, which is when answers might be affected by conscious or unconscious influences by either the surveyor, the format of the questions, or by the respondent. For example, an internet-based survey would exhibit this based on the fact that only individuals with internet access could complete the survey.

What is bias?