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100

Pres. Lincoln said "I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper."

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

100
This spice is known for being the most expensive spice in the world by weight

What is Saffron?

100

Number of states that touch the Pacific Ocean

What is five (Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California)?

100

Oops! Looks like somebody has gone AWOL which is short for this

What is Absent Without Leave?

100

Nearby Carnegie-Mellon University is now a part owner of this Major League Baseball team

Who are the Pittsburgh Pirates?

200

Leaked to the press in 1971 the Pentagon Papers detailed America's involvement in this conflict

What is the Vietnam War?

200

The Italian beverage affogato is known for its two ingredients of Coffee and this

What is Ice Cream?

200

This peninsula is a mountainous region that's most associated with the countries of Spain and Portugal 

What is the Iberian Peninsula?

200

European countries plagued by debt were given the acronym PIIGS: Portugal Ireland Italy & these other two countries

What are Greece and Spain?

200

While men use foils epees & sabres in this Olympic event women use only foils

What is Fencing?

300

The only Constitutional amendment to be repealed, the 18th Amendment, originally put this into effect

What is Prohibition?

300

This cocktail made with peach nectar & champagne was named for a Venetian painter

What is a Bellini?

300

The largest freshwater lake in the world

What is Lake Superior?

300

The American Television service HBO is an acronym for this

What is Home Box Office?

300

The tournament held here each summer is considered the unofficial world championship of tennis

Where is Wimbledon?

400

In 1964 the Warren Commission concluded that this man acted alone in killing President Kennedy

Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?

400

A mixed drink made with gin and dry vermouth, and often garnished with a pickled onion

What is a Gibson?

400

Auckland, the chief port city of this country, was once its capital

What is New Zealand?

400

If you belong to SAG you belong to this & may be ineligible to be a game show contestant

What is the Screen Actors Guild?

400

While in football the Jets represent New York, in hockey they represent this Canadian city

What is Winnipeg?

500

This Connecticut native was a general in both the American and the British armies during the American Revolutionary War

Who is Benedict Arnold?

500

Both Baking Soda and Baking Powder are known as this type of agent in baking

What is a leavening agent?

500

Sometimes referred to as the "Venice of the North" this Belgian city was once considered one of the world's chief commercial centers

What is Bruges?

500

The two A's in NASA stand for these

What are Aeronautics and Administration?


500

This boxer was a 42-to-1 underdog when he KO'd Mike Tyson?

Who is Buster Douglas?