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American History
100
The United States recently announced that it would re-establish diplomatic relations with this country
What is Cuba?
100
This was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name
What is Mark Twain
100
What a² + b² = c² is called
What is the Pythagorean Theorum?
100
This Adam Sandler comedy featured Bob Barker's big screen debut
What is Happy Gilmore
100
He married Marilyn Monroe in January 1954
Who is Joe Dimaggio
200
To comply with the health care law, most Americans need to indicate they have health insurance coverage when they do this.
What is file their taxes.
200
He, in 1450, invented movable type, thus revolutionising printing.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
200
These clouds produce precipitation
What are nimbus clouds?
200
The brand of underwear Marty McFly wears in Back to the Future
What is Calvin Klein
200
This took place on Griffin's Wharf in America in 1773.
What is The Boston Tea Party
300
How many of the United States Supreme Court Justices are women?
What is three.
300
He wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade
Who is Lord Alfred Tennyson?
300
Math whiz Ferdinand von Lindemann determined this mathematical symbol to be a transcendental number in 1882.
What is Pi
300
Alfred Hitchcock used this to portray blood in the shower scene of Psycho
What is chocolate syrup
300
Norman Rockwell's illustration of this US iconic World War II heroine appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in May 1943
Who is Rosie the Riveter
400
This charity for veterans has recently been under fire for blowing millions of dollars in donation money on spoils for its staff.
What is The Wounded Warrior Project?
400
This famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern Prometheus'
What is Frankenstein
400
The part of speech that the word "but" plays in the following sentence:
Sam wants to play Xbox, but he hasn't gotten his reading done yet.
What is a conjunction?
400
The date of Harry Potter's birthday
What is July 31st
400
In October 1973, he resigned as Vice President of the US, and then pleaded no contest to the charges of income tax evasion in a federal court in Baltimore
Who is Spiro Agnew
500
Both Turkish and NATO radars detected a jet from this country violating Turkish airspace
What is Russia?
500
He wrote the 1513 guide to leadership (titled in English) The Prince
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli
500
Light reactions, and the Calvin cycle are the two stages of this.
What is photosynthesis?
500
The only non Jedi in the original Star Wars trilogy to use a lightsaber
Who is Han Solo
500
He was the first US president to hold a press conference on tv.