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100

What was the first Pixar movie? 

Toy Story 

100

How many countries are in Africa?

54 

100

What is the farthest building on campus? 

Ausable Hall
100

What Galaxy do we live in? 

The Milky way 

100

Who painted the Mona Lisa? 

Leonardo da Vinci

200

What year did Facebook launch 

2004 

200

What is the only country that borders the United Kingdom? 

Ireland 

200

Where do you go if you have a question on campus? 

The information Desk 

200

Who wrote the famous diary while hiding from Nazis in Amsterdam?

Anne Frank

200

Who was the first American in Space? 

Alan Shepard 

300

How many people have walked on the Moon 

12 

300

What is the only continent without an active volcano? 

Australia

300

What does ARO, EOP, and CAP stand for? 

Accessibility Resource Office 

Educational Opportunity Program 

Cardinal Achievement Program 

300

Where were the Olympics invented? 

Greece

300

Which American president is in the Wrestling Hall of Fame? 

Abraham Lincoln 

400

What was Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden name? 

Roosevelt ( She was distant cousins with FDR) 

400

Which country consumes the most chocolate per capita?

Switzerland 

400

What year was the battle of Plattsburgh? 

1814 

400

What is the hardest known natural material? 

Diamonds

400

What was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to legalize divorce?

Chile (2004) 

500

What is the newest country and when did it gain independence? 

South Sudan

500

What is the only country without its own national anthem? 

Cyprus ( in 1966 it adopted the Greek national anthem as its own) 

500

What is the oldest building at SUNY Plattsburgh? 

Champlain Valley Hall

500

What are the three types of rocks? 

Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic 

500

What year was black history month first celebrated? 

1976