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100

This conflict between the Union and the Confederacy raged from 1861 to 1865.

American Civil War

100

This Disney animated hit features a snowman named Olaf and the song "Let It Go."

Frozen

100

This vast desert, the largest hot desert in the world, spans much of North Africa.

Sahara

100

This navigation tool uses a magnetized needle that always points toward north.

compass

100

This hard Italian cheese is famously grated over pasta and pizza.

Parmesan

200

This French general crowned himself Emperor in 1804 and was later exiled to Elba.

Napoleon Bonaparte

200

This Netflix series is set in the town of Hawkins and features a girl known only as Eleven.

Stranger Things

200

This is the largest U.S. state by land area.

Alaska

200

This sport uses a rod, reel, and bait to catch the day's dinner from a lake or river.

Fishing

200

This pale cheese full of holes (or "eyes") shares its name with an Alpine country.

Swiss cheese (Emmental)

300

The only Ancient Wonder still largely standing, this monument rises on the Giza plateau.

The Great Pyramid of Giza

300

This sitcom followed Ross, Rachel, and pals who hung out at Central Perk in New York.

Friends

300

Surrounded entirely by Rome, this is the smallest sovereign country in the world.

Vatican City

300

Established in 1872, this was the first national park in the United States.

Yellowstone

300

This pungent, veined cheese gets its blue color from Penicillium mold.

blue cheese

400

This 13th-century Mongol leader founded the largest contiguous land empire in history.

Gengis Kahn

400

This director helmed Jaws, E.T., and Jurassic Park.

Steven Spielberg

400

Covering about a third of the planet, this is the largest ocean on Earth.

Pacific Ocean

400

This "Leave No ___" ethic urges hikers to pack out everything they pack in.

Trace

400

A staple of every cheese platter, this orange-to-pale cheese hails from a Somerset village.

Cheddar

500

Signed in 1215, this English document was the first to limit the power of the king.

Magna Carta

500

In 2020, this South Korean film became the first non-English movie to win Best Picture.

Parasite

500

Bounded by ocean currents rather than land, this North Atlantic body is the only sea with no coastline.

Sargasso Sea

500

This ~2,190-mile footpath runs along the eastern U.S. from Georgia to Maine.

Appalachian Trail

500

The bacteria Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus bulgaricus are the two cultures that ferment milk into this breakfast staple.

yogurt