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100

The Eiffel Tower overlooks this European capital.

What is Paris?

100

In The Office, this character famously declared, “I am Beyoncé, always.”

Who is Michael Scott?

100

This document begins with “When in the course of human events...”

What is the Declaration of Independence?

100

This search engine’s name became a verb meaning “to look something up.”

What is Google?

100

This is the only English word that ends with “mt.”

What is dreamt?

200

This country is home to Machu Picchu.

What is Peru?

200

This singer’s alter ego is Sasha Fierce.

Who is Beyoncé?

200

The “Shot Heard ’Round the World” marked the start of this war.

What is the American Revolution?

200

“CPU” stands for this essential computer part.

What is Central Processing Unit?

200

These are words that sound the same but have different meanings, like “two” and “too.”

What are homophones?

300

This city straddles two continents, Europe and Asia.

What is Istanbul?

300

Tom Hanks voiced this character in Toy Story.

Who is Woody?

300

In 1989, this wall that divided a city for decades finally fell.

What is the Berlin Wall?

300

In Wi-Fi, the “Fi” doesn’t actually stand for anything — it’s just part of the brand of this technology.

What is wireless networking?

300

A palindrome reads the same backward and forward — name this 3-letter example.

What is “mom”? (Also acceptable: “wow”, “pop”)

400

The Great Barrier Reef lies off the coast of this country.

What is Australia?

400

This Netflix hit features the Upside Down and a girl with psychokinetic powers.

What is Stranger Things?

400

The first human to orbit Earth was this Soviet cosmonaut.

Who is Yuri Gagarin?

400

This coding language shares its name with a kind of coffee.

What is Java?

400

This term means a word formed from the first letters of a series of words, like “NASA.”

What is an acronym?

500

This mountain range forms a natural border between France and Spain.

What are the Pyrenees?

500

In Back to the Future, this was the name/model of the time-traveling car.

What is the DeLorean?

500

The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S. under this president.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

500

He founded SpaceX and helped create Tesla.

Who is Elon Musk?

500

This figure of speech gives human traits to nonhuman things.

What is personification?