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100

This pasta is 2-3 inches wide and has ribbed edge.

What is lasagna?

100

This country emits the most carbon dioxide per person.

What is the United States?

100

This country exports nearly 82% of the world's of maple syrup.  

What is Canada?

100

The term "HOME RUN" was already previously used in this sport before getting into the baseball vocabulary.

What is Cricket?

100

This movie from 1990 co-starring Richard Gere vaulted Julia Roberts to super-stardom.

What is Pretty Woman?

200

This Michelin star restaurant in the Windy City is known for a dessert made from green apple taffy and filled with real helium.

What is Alinea?

200

This phenomenon describes gases trapping heat in the atmosphere.

What is the greenhouse effect?

200

This South Asian country that produces 40 percent of the world’s soccer balls.

What is Pakistan? 

200

This is the only American city with three sports teams that wear the same colors.

What is Pittsburgh?

200

 In this scifi move from 1984, Rutger Hauer delivers the line "All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

What is Bladerunner?

300

Boasting the Guiness World Record for the world's oldest restaurant founded in the 18th century, this city is home to Cocido madrileño, huevos rotos, and the bocadillo de calamares.

What is Madrid?

300

Carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and some refrigerants are examples of these types of gases that have been increasing in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution because of human activity.

What are greenhouse gases?

300

This East African nation was the site of an archaeological discovery that rewrote human history. A 3.2 billion-year-old hominin (early human) fossil was found which was named after the Beatles song  “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.”  

What is Ethiopia?

300

This player immigrated from South Africa to Canada and won a NBA MVP award. He is also a 2013 RBC Top 25 Canadian Immigrant winner.

Who is Steve Nash?

300

This 1986 movie was Oprah Winfrey's first film role, for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

What is The Color Purple?

400

During World War II, people in the US called this food "liberty steaks."

What is hamburger?

400

The percentage of climate scientists who agree that the climate is changing, and getting warmer, because of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.

What is more than 95%?

400

This country produces a quarter of all overseas nurses. This makes it the top supplier of nurses.   

What is the Philippines?

400

This player is a Pan Am Games gold medallist (2007) and played 2008. He is a field hockey player from Canada, whose brother Rob also represents the Men's National Team.

Who is Peter Short?

400

The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson and commonly thought of as the first feature-length "talking picture," is from this year.

What is 1927?

500

This dessert comprised of beans, fruits, shaved ice drizzled with evaporated milk, and taro ice cream hails from the Philippines and loosely translates to “mix mix."

What is halo halo?

500

189 countries have ratified this Agreement agreeing to limit global warming and adapt to climate change, partly by protecting nature.

What is the 2015 Paris Agreement?

500

Everyone who lives in this European country, even foreigners, can attend college tuition-free. 

What is Germany?

500

This team in 1950 qualified for the World Cup in Brazil, but ultimately was forced to withdraw for two reasons: 1) Financial, and 2) This was the second reason. 

What is India, and FIFA’s requirement that players wear shoes during the matches? (At the time, Indian footballers were accustomed to playing barefoot.)

500

These two French brothers are commonly credited with the first projected movie exhibition in Paris, March 22, 1895.

Who are The Lumière Brothers?