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100
This mountain range is part of the larger Appalachian Mountain range that lines much of the United States east coast.
What are the Blue Ridge Mountains?
100
This is the name for a flag that was sometimes flown over pirate ships, often with a white skull and bones on a black background.
What is Jolly Roger?
100
This German highway network is famous (and to some, infamous) for not mandating or enforcing any speed limit.
What is the Autobahn?
100
This New York sports team shares a very similar name to the city's most famous museum.
What are the Mets?
100
Captain Edward Smith, while piloting this vessel, ignored his crew's warnings of an upcoming obstacle, resulting in the death of hundreds of passengers.
What is the Titanic?
200
Ironic considering her name, this gum-chewing child turns into a blueberry in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Full Name)
Who is Violet Beauregarde?
200
In the 18th century, many pirates targeted cargo ships traveling within the triangle trade structure between these three areas.
What is Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean?
200
The short flight between these two cities of the same state measured as the busiest American domestic flight with over 3.9 million passengers per year.
What are Los Angeles and San Francisco?
200
This neighborhood on the West side of Manhattan shares its name with a cooking show that airs on Fox.
What is Hell's Kitchen?
200
On average, America has over 500 deaths and over 43,000 injuries per year from accidentally doing this.
What are accidental shootings?
300
With a beer garden, a children's museum, and a huge ferris wheel, this tourist attraction decorates the coastline of one of America's largest cities.
What is Navy Pier?
300
List time! Name up to 10 Mediterranean coast port cities (100 points per correct city).
Malaga, Almeria, Valencia, Barcelona, Marseilles, Toulon, Nice, Genoa, Cagliari, Naples, Palermo, Venice, Athens, Tripoli, Beirut, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Port Said, Alexandria, Benghazi, Tripoli again, Tunis, Algiers, Treiste.
300
Usually known in English as "the bullet train", this train network in Japan reaches a maximum speed of 200 mph, all while never recording a single passenger fatality.
What is the Shinkansen?
300
The titular character of this world famous novel lives in the fictional neighborhood of 'West Egg', an area depicted in Queens.
What is The Great Gatsby?
300
After a failed assassination attempt, the driver of Archduke Franz Ferdinand took a wrong turn and drove right in front of this young student who would shoot the Archduke dead.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
400
This rock band toured with acts like Queen, The Police, and Cheap Trick after the release of their 1984 album Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth.
Who is Joan Jett & the Blackhearts?
400
This island nation has been passed among many different empires throughout history to be used as a trading post on the Strait of Malacca, before becoming its own country in 1965.
What is Singapore?
400
Though Atlanta and Beijing's airports run away with the total number of travelers, this city's airport leads the world in the number of international travelers, averaging nearly 90 million per year pre-pandemic.
What is Dubai?
400
Madison Square Garden, though not actually in Madison Square, was named after this famous American, who was actually from Virginia.
Who is James Madison?
400
Though thankfully nobody was killed, a meltdown at this site became the largest nuclear accident in American history when it forced the evacuation of many nearby Pennsylvania towns.
What is Three Mile Island?
500
This liqueur, named after a French mountain range, is combined with gin and lime juice to create a cocktail called 'the last word'.
What is Chartreuse?
500
John Rackham, better known by this nickname, was an English pirate who robbed many ships in the waters of the Bahamas during the "Golden Age of Piracy" before being executed in 1720.
Who is Calico Jack?
500
The deadliest aviation accident in history occurred in 1977 when a plane taking off at 160mph collided with a taxiing plane at this tourist location in Spain.
What is Tenerife?
500
This Manhattan neighborhood was a hub for progressive creatives in the 1970's with figures like Joan Baez, Simon & Garfunkel, Jimi Hendrix, James Baldwin & Maya Angelou getting their start here. It was also the site of the Stonewall Riots.
What is Greenwich Village?
500
In 1948 the Chicago Daily Tribune printed this false headline about the results of the presidential election because of an incorrect prediction by their political analyst Arthur Sears Henning.
What is "Dewey Defeats Truman"?
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