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She urged us to get out and vote in 2020, cautioning firsthand against "another woulda, coulda, shoulda election"

Who is Hillary Clinton?

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This film, featuring a crew of astronauts who travel through a wormhole in search of a new home for humanity, won the 2015 Oscar for Best Visual Effects

What is Interstellar?

100

If you take a cabbage, cut it finely, and ferment it with various lactic acid bacteria, the output is typically this German side dish

What is Sauerkraut?

100

In 1982, The NHLs Colorado Rockies Moved East to become this team

What is The New Jersey Devils?

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He writes about how natural creativity is limited by the prejudices of logic and the structures of accepted categories and concepts in his book Creative Thinkering

Who is Michael Michalko?

200

The credo "Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done" led Pat Riley to 4 NBA titles coaching this team

Who are the L.A. Lakers?

200

This 2017 Oscar Winner for Best Original Screenplay features the well-known "Mia and Sebastian's Theme"

What is La La Land?

200

One of Andy Warhol's most famous artworks is a set of 32 canvases, each bearing an image of a red-and-white can of soup from this company

What is Campbell's?

200

6/6 is the metric equivalent of this fraction for normal visual acuity.

What is 20/20?

200

One may use this concept to make their workplace more like a playground, for example

What is conceptual blending?

300

Decades of TV ads featured beverage drinkers lamenting, "I could've had" one of these juice cocktails

What is a V8?

300

The 2023 Best Original Screenplay with the tear-jerking quote "In another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you."


What is Everything Everywhere All at Once?

300

The Delaware-based company RAPA is considered the largest manufacturer of this food mush that is traditionally a combination of pork scraps, cornmeal, wheat flour, and spices


What is scrapple?

300

When the British Crown Jewels aren’t on the queen’s head, they’re on display here.

What is The Tower of London?

300

The phenomenon of seeing an outlet as a face, or a cloud that looks like a dog

What is pareidolia?

400

This author of "The Giving Tree" gave us the poem "Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda", a fun-size lesson in just doing it

Who is Shel Silverstein?

400

This 2019 winner of Best Animated Feature Film had a soundtrack featuring Post Malone, Swae Lee, and Juice Wrld

What is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?

400

This distilled alcoholic spirit has an English name derived from a diminutive form of the Slavic word for water

What is vodka?

400

This alliterative quality is the reason that, as they say, once you learn to ride a bike, you’ll never forget.

What is muscle memory?

400

Our own experiences and assumptions create a unique basis of this cognitive process for every individual

What is perception?

500

Darth Vader's cheery banter with the hero of this Disney+ series includes, "You should've killed me when you had the chance"

Who is Obi-Wan Kenobi?

500

This 2023 nominee for Best Animated Feature Film follows a hero attempting to restore 8 of his 9 lives by finding the mythical Last Wish.

What is Puss in Boots: The Last Wish?

500

This ring-shaped pasta, frequently filled with meats or cheese, is sometimes referred to as "belly buttons" because of its navel-like shape

What is tortellini?

500

4 letter verb: To decrease gradually in intensity, such as the moon in passing from full to new

What is wane?

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This term refers to the presence of various viewpoints, interpretations, or angles from which a particular subject, situation, or issue can be observed and understood.

What is the multiplicity of perspectives?

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