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100

Name the last name of these 3 renowned sisters who were literature masters. One of them wrote Wuthering Heights, another wrote Jane Eyre, and the last wrote Agnes Grey

Brontë

100

This war fought between the colonies and Great Britain started in 1775 and led to America's independence

The American Revolutionary War


100

This Norse god wields the hammer Mjolnir and appears in several Marvel movies

Thor

100

This fundamental force is caused by the attraction between two bodies or particles 

Gravitational force

100

Name this artist who made the hit song, “Single Ladies” and "Texas Hold Em".

Beyonce

200

This author wrote works such as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson

200

This war fought between 431 and 404 was a devastating conflict between the Athenian-led Delian League and the Spartan League

The Peloponnesian War

200

This god was forced to give up his identity to Isis, to cure him from a snake poison that could've been fatal. He is seen as the father of all creation.

Ra

200

This phylum denotes sponges, notably animals that lack a nervous system, organs, and muscles.

Porifera

200

This superstar for the Chicago Bulls that played until 2024 had their NCAA season canceled after allegations that they had someone else take their SAT for them

Derrick Rose

300

This poet described an "unravished bride of quietness" in his Ode on a Grecian Urn

John Keats

300

This empire crumbled after the coup d'etat in 1913. Before that disastrous defeat, this empire was led by men such as Suleiman the Magnificent and Mehmed II

The Ottoman Empire 

300

This Irish giant, warrior, and leader of the Fianna gained wisdom by tasting the Salmon of Knowledge. He also burned his finger in the process.

Finn Maccool

300

This letter is sometimes used to denote the Euler-Mascheroni constant, and the function denoted by this extends the factorial to real and complex numbers. It is also the letter used for a significantly damaging type of radiation

Gamma

300

Groups in this manga include the Worm Handlers, scavengers scorned by the rest of society, as well as the Forest People. For 10 points, name this manga created by Hayao Miyazaki and later adapted into the first Studio Ghibli film

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

400

This author wrote the collection A Shropshire Lad which included the poem "To an Athlete Dying Young"

A. E. Housman
400

This war fought between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the Ottomans, French, U.K., Ireland, and Sardinia featured the Battle of Sevastopol. Hint: Tennyson wrote a famous poem about a specific event during it

The Crimean War

400

This was the Roman god of borders and boundaries. He features prominently in many Percy Jackson books, including the Son of Neptune

Terminus

400

This object can be rotated into itself and reflected into itself in 12 distinct ways each, for a total of 4-factorial isometries. These objects have one-sixth the volume of their parallelpiped. Name these specific types of pyramids that have 4 triangular faces.

Regular tetrahedron
400

With eighteen months of shooting in New Zealand and another eighteen of post-production, it will be the largest movie production ever in the southern hemisphere. Name this movie series based on the book series.

Lord of the Rings

500

This author wrote "About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters" in his poem "Musée des Beaux Arts"

W.H. Auden

500

This ruler married the daughter of Emperor Seleucus I, and one important source on him is the Indica of Megasthenes, who was appointed as an ambassador in this man’s court. Name this leader of India.

Chandragupta Maurya

500

In his role as the favorite of ascetics, this deity's matted locks are often shown in a coil that represents the Ganges. Often worshipped through his symbol of the lingam, he is sometimes depicted as Nataraja, the eternal dancer.

Shiva

500

This metal has +1 and +3 oxidation states. This element was described as a piece of tissue paper, deflecting a cannonball, into a ring of zinc sulfide, during the experiment which discovered the nucleus. 

Gold

500

The last name of this series’ main protagonist comes from an in-joke about his hair color. Following the defeat of the Black Lance, Admiral Tolwyn hangs himself at the end of The Price of Freedom, while Devereaux is eviscerated by Thrakath before the third installment, The Heart of the Tiger.

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