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100
This gas makes up roughly 78% of Earth’s atmosphere and is essential for plant growth.
What is Nitrogen?
100
On Monk, Adrian Monk’s severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and phobias intensified dramatically following the tragic, unsolved murder of his wife, named:
Trudy Monk
100
This famous Renaissance polymath painted the Mona Lisa and drew the Vitruvian Man
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
100
This green ogre's best friend is a talkative Donkey in a classic DreamWorks animated movie.
What is Shrek?
100
This famous 16th-century ceiling in Vatican City features The Creation of Adam painted by Michelangelo.
What is the Sistine Chapel?
200
This type of rock is formed when lava or magma cools and solidifies
What is igneous rock?
200
In Last Man Standing, before Ryan was recast, which actor originally played his character?
Nick Jonas
200
In 1859, the United States and Great Britain nearly went to full-scale war over the shooting of one of these livestock animals on San Juan Island.
What is a pig? (The Pig War)
200
In The Wizard of Oz, these are the three companions Dorothy meets along the Yellow Brick Road.
Who are the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion?
200
This American artist became famous for painting everyday commercial objects, including 32 cans of Campbell's Soup and portraits of Marilyn Monroe.
Who is Andy Warhol?
300
This organ in the human body consumes the most energy, taking up about 20% of the body's calorie intake.
What is the brain?
300
Gus works a real day job as a sales representative for this company throughout most of the series.
Central Coast Pharmaceuticals
300
Before becoming a major beverage company, Pepsi briefly possessed the world's 6th largest military submarine fleet in 1989 after trading soft drinks for war ships with this nation.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
300
Who wrote the Oscar-winning script of Sense and Sensibility (1995), starring Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, and Hugh Grant?
Emma Thompson, who also played the role of Elinor Dashwood.
300
In 2018, a framed artwork titled Girl with Balloon by this anonymous British street artist self-destructed via a hidden shredder immediately after being sold at auction for over $1 million.
Who is Banksy?
400
In quantum mechanics, the thought experiment involving a feline that is simultaneously alive and dead until observed is named after this Austrian physicist.
Who is Erwin Schrödinger? (Schrödinger's Cat).
400
George Crabtree's first novel from Murdoch Mysteries is titled...
The Curse of the Pharaohs
400
Before adopting the calendar used today, Britain and its American colonies skipped 11 full days in September of 1752 when switching to this calendar system.
What was the Gregorian calendar?
400
This 1994 film won the Academy Award for Best Picture and stars Tom Hanks as a man who inadvertently witnesses key historical events.
What is Forrest Gump?
400
Famous for his dramatic use of light and shadow, this rebellious 17th-century Italian painter frequently got into street brawls and famously killed a man in a duel over a tennis match.
Caravaggio
500
Although most believe that this common material is solid, it is actually an amorphous solid that behaves like a slow-moving liquid over long periods.
What is glass?
500
Who is this character from the HTTYD spinoff show called Race To The Edge?
Dagur the Deranged
500
During World War II, the British government invented the myth that eating these vegetables improved pilots' night vision to cover up their secret use of radar technology.
What are carrots?
500
In Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock used this common sweet ice cream topping as fake blood during the famous shower scene because it showed up better on black-and-white film.
What is Hershey's Chocolate Syrup?
500
n 1961, French artist Henri Matisse had his painting Le Bateau hung in New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). It took 47 days and over 116,000 visitors before a wall-label coordinator finally noticed this major mistake.
The painting was hung upside down.