Name shared by these presidents: Madison, Monroe, Polk, Buchanan, Garfield, and Carter
What is James?
100
This HBO epic fantasy series is based on a novel by George R.R. Martin.
What is Game of Thrones?
100
This city's name, "smoky bay" in Icelandic, refers to steam from volcanic activity.
What is Reykjavik (Iceland)?
100
This Swedish inventor of a temperature scale helped confirm that the earth is a spheroid flat at the poles.
Who is (Anders) Celsius?
100
The name “Oracle” comes from a code name of a project that Larry Ellison and other founders completed for this government agency.
What is the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)?
200
“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
200
Morgan Freeman played Lucius Fox, a valued employee of Wayne Enterprises, in this 2008 film.
What is The Dark Knight?
200
In the Lao language the name of this Laotian capital means “city of sandalwood”.
What is Vientiane (Laos)?
200
Look! The dry ice in the bowl is undergoing this process, in which a solid is transformed directly into a gas.
What is Sublimation?
200
In 2014 Facebook agreed to pay $2 billion for Oculus, a maker of this immersive technology.
What is Virtual Reality?
300
During his second run for presidency, he was shot by a would-be assassin while giving a speech in Milwaukee.
He continued to deliver his speech with the bullet in his chest.
Who is Teddy Roosevelt?
300
Characters: Bubba Blue, Lieutenant Dan, Abbie Hoffman.
What is Forrest Gump?
300
Yaounde, capital of this former French territory in Africa, was founded by Germans involved in the ivory trade.
What is Cameroon?
300
Let’s get to the point – they are the stone formations rising from the floor of a wet cave.
What are Stalagmites?
300
CTR, the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company, took on this current 3-letter name in 1924.
What is IBM?
400
He won the Most Nearly Perfect Male Figure Award from the University of California in 1940.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
400
This "Star Wars" movie, "Episode III", leads up to where the original movie began.
What is Revenge of the Sith?
400
Hungary’s former capital, this Danube city is now the capital of Slovakia.
What is Bratislava (Slovakia)?
400
Seriously, get some lotion on the outermost layer of the skin, also known as this.
What is the Epidermis?
400
Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of this microblogging site, sent its first message March 21, 2006.
What is Twitter?
500
He was the first president (1837-1841) to be a United States citizen. All previous presidents were born British subjects.
Who is Martin Van Buren?
500
At the morgue in this 1997 film, we see the murdered Arquillian’s heels as well as his cat Orion; agents Jay & Kay investigate.
What is Men in Black?
500
One of the 2 world capitals that end in the letter “Z”; one is in Europe & one in the Americas.
What is La Paz (Bolivia), or Vaduz (Liechtenstein)?
500
The average size of a string in string theory is about 10^-33 centimeters, known as this German physicist’s “length”.
Who is (Max) Planck?
500
It was the first electronic general-purpose computer. Constructed in the University of Pennsylvania, it used over 18,000 vacuum tubes.
What is ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)?