Charles Dickens
Kevin Costner Films
SI Units
Poly-atomic Ions
World Leaders
100

This novel opens with the line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times", and takes place in London and Paris.

A Tale of Two Cities

100

This film set in Cleveland was both the final directed film by Ivan Reitman and the final acting role for an athlete who played there.

Draft Day

100

This quantity with dimension "meters cubed per kilogram per second squared" is approximately "6.67 times 10 to the -11."

Universal Gravitational Constant

100

Name these poly·atomic ions composed of multiple oxyanions linked by their oxygen atoms to form a 3D cluster. Their most well-studied class are the Keggin structures.

Poly-oxo-metalates

100

Name this world leadership position held during the 1980’s by Brian Mulroney and Pierre Trudeau.

Prime Minister of Canada

200

Abel Magwitch is the faller of Estella in this novel about Pip.

Great Expectations
200

TV show about the Dutton family, who owns a large ranch in Montana.

Yellowstone

200

Gigaseals are omega-shaped regions of cell membranes for which this quantity is on the scale of 10^9 in SI units.

Electrical resistance 

200

In the Suzuki coupling, halides can be replaced by triflates and other compounds containing these polyatomic ions that react like halides. These polyatomic ions include cyanide and azide.

Pseudohalogen

200

A man in this world leadership position ceded power to the liberal "jailbirds," but eventually got that power back in the Ominous Decade.

King of Spain

300

The Artful Dodger recruits this novel's title boy into Fagin's gang of pickpockets after he is kicked out of the workhouse for asking for more gruel.

Oliver Twist (name of the character and the novel)

300

Film in which, following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.

Let Him Go

300

This physical constant is precisely fixed in SI units due to the definition of the meter.

Speed of light.

300

Formula for dichromate.

Cr-2-O-7 minus 2

300

Name this office held by Evo Morales.

President of Bolivia

400

This novella features three ghosts that visit Ebenezer Scrooge.

A Christmas Carol

400
These western films, which are in two chapters released in the same year, follows a gruff cowboy that soon finds himself on the run with a prostitute and a young boy after killing a fellow gunman.

Horizon: An American Saga, Chapters One and Two

400

This law’s proportionality constant, which equals 1 over 4 pi times epsilon-naught, is approximately equal to 9 times 10 to the 9th in SI units.

Coulomb's law

400

Formula for bicarbonate.

H-C-O-3 minus 1

400

Name man who has pushed his country's membership in OPEC and is fond of criticizing world leaders, the current President of Venezuela.

Hugo Chavez Frias

500

Semi-autobiographical novel that narrates the journey of the title character's life from infancy to maturity. 

David Copperfield

500

In this film, former Texas Rangers Frank Hammer and Maney Gault come out of retirement and join forces to try and apprehend notorious outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. 

The Highwaymen

500

Name these SI units for temperature and the amount of a substance.

Mole and Kelvin

500

Formula for thiocyanate.

S-C-N minus 1

500

This socialist president of Burkina Faso played guitar in a jazz band with the man who eventually overthrew him in a coup, Blaise Compraore. He renamed his country, which was formerly called Upper Volta.

Thomas Sankara

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