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100

This strait off the southern coast of Iran is currently being contested as a route for oil tankers from the Persian Gulf.  

What is Hormuz?  

100

The chemical symbol for lead.

What is Pb?

100

The Boxer Rebellion took place in this country. 

What is China? 

100

This actor originally played Elle in the film version of Legally Blonde.  

Who is Reese Witherspoon?

200

The current Attorney General is also the former AG of this state. 

What is Florida?

200

An infectious particle that can only reproduce inside a living cell.

What is a virus?

200

Barack Obama taught constitutional law at this university.

What is the University of Chicago? 

200

This Oscar-nominated film set in Florida is based on a Colson Whitehead novel by the same name.  

What is The Nickel Boys?

300

The easternmost country on the Horn of Africa, also contains the easternmost point on the African continent.

What is Somalia?  

300
Pumbaa in The Lion King is this type of African wild pig.

What is a warthog?

300

The US Interstate Highway System was created under this president's administration?  

Who is Dwight Eisenhower?  

300

This Smartless podcast host was also the star of Teen Wolf 2.  

Who is Jason Bateman?

400

This is Spain's oldest, continually inhabited city.

What is Cadiz?  

400

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy is more commonly known as this disease.  

What is mad cow disease?

400

This 1990s Russian president had quintuple bypass surgery while in office?

Who is Boris Yeltsin?

400

He was Big Boi's partner in the rap duo Outkast.

Who is Andre 3000?

500

 

500

This is the only nation that borders both Kazakhstan and Iran. 

What is Turkmenistan?  

500

Ichthyophobia is the irrational fear of these animals.

What are fish?

500

This Venezuelan leader began his plan to take power after the 1989 Caracazo riots. 

Who is Hugo Chavez?

500

This director has adapted two Thomas Pynchon novels into films.

Who is Paul Thomas Anderson?