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100

This artist’s 2024 album, The Tortured Poets Department, broke records by monopolizing the entire top 14 spots on the Billboard Hot 100.

Who is Taylor Swift?

100

Often called the "Red Planet," this is the fourth planet from the sun.

What is Mars?

100

This is the largest ocean on Earth, covering more than 60 million square miles.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

100

The U.S. Congress is made up of two parts: the Senate and this body.

What is the House of Representatives?

100

You enter a room with a matchbook, a candle, an oil lamp, and a wood stove. This is the first thing you must light.

What is a match?

200

This Beyoncé album released in March 2024 blended country-pop and Americana, featuring the hit "Texas Hold 'Em".

What is Cowboy Carter?

200

This is the largest planet in our solar system, known for its Great Red Spot.

What is Jupiter?

200

At over 19,000 feet tall, this mountain is the tallest in Africa, a continent generally known for flat deserts and savanahs.

What is Mt. Kilimanjaro?

200

This document, signed in 1776, declared the original 13 colonies' independence from Great Britain.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

200

This is the only word in the dictionary that is always spelled incorrectly.

What is Incorrectly?

300

This viral 8-letter word (or two words) was named the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year and is frequently used by Gen Z and Gen Alpha to describe nonsensical digital content.

What is brain rot?

300

This man, a New Jersey native, was the second to ever step foot on the moon, travelling alongside Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 mission.

Who is Buzz Aldrin?

300

This country is unique because it is both a full continent and its own individual island nation.

What is Australia?

300

This man is the only U.S. President to have served more than two terms in office.

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

300

Before Mount Everest was officially discovered and measured, this was the highest mountain in the world.

What is Mount Everest?

400

Despite being over a decade old, this "sandbox" game remained the most-played title of 2024 and 2025, largely due to its massive world-building community.

What is Minecraft?

400

This planet is the only one in our solar system whose rotation is sideways, technically meaning the planet is at a 90 degree angle.

What is Uranus?

400

This is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in any of the 50 U.S. state names.

What is Q?

400

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson nearly doubled the size of the United States by making this massive land deal with France for $15 million.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

400

David’s parents have three sons: Zeus, Poseidon, and this third son.

Who is David?