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This 2019 movie is the highest-grossing movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is also the 2nd highest-grossing movie of all time. 

What is Avengers: Endgame?

400

This 50-square-mile zone, located in the Yellowstone National Park, gained notoriety with the theory that a person may be able to commit any crime without a fear of conviction due to jurisdiction loopholes.

What is the Zone of Death?

400

In the first night of the retreat, the group was stunned when Jessica and Daniel encountered this flying animal in their bedroom.

What is a bat?

400

This famous physicist, who recently was the central figure of a biopic, served as the director of the Manhattan Project during World War II.

Who is Julius Robert Oppenheimer?

400

This American company founded in 1972 served as a a pioneer in the video game industry; it was responsible for introducing consoles to ordinary households, but ultimately went bankrupt due to rising competition and the Video Game Crash of 1983.

What is Atari?

800

This movie, distributed by Paramount Pictures, was the first theatrical release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

What is Iron Man?

800

Arizona is the only state in the Contiguous United States that does not observe daylight savings time, but this Native American reservation within the state of Arizona does, and this often confuses tourists. 

What is the Navajo Nation?

800

On the final night of the retreat, a group of people achieved clearer skin by using this type of beauty product.

What are face masks?

800

This physicist, known for developing gravitational singularity theorems and other astrophysical theories, suffered from a degenerative neural condition commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. 

Who was Stephen Hawking?

800

This major American retailer brand, which also held the naming rights to the tallest skyscraper in Chicago, experienced a gradual collapse into bankruptcy in the 2010s and now only have 5 stores still open in the United States.

What is Sears?

1200

Despite Disney's acquisition of Marvel Entertainment in 2009, this company had previously acquired the license to produce Spider Man content, and still holds that license over Disney to this day. 

Who is Sony (Pictures)?

1200

This is a geographical marker in the Southwestern United States where a total of 4 state meet, but in reality, this was caused by surveying imperfections in the 1800s. 

What is the Four Corners Monument?
1200

Despite the overall decent cleanliness of the house, there was an infestation of this type of insect that was present near the doors and windows. 

What are ladybugs?

1200

This polish-born physicist was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, but she also is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields.

Who was Marie Curie?

1200

In 2000, video rental chain Blockbuster rejected an offer to buy this startup company for 50 million; Blockbuster would eventually go bankrupt and close all but one store. 

What is Netflix?

1600

This famous American actor, who received an Academy Honorary Award in 2022, holds the record for appearing in the most Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, with a total of 11.

Who is Samuel L. Jackson?

1600
This area of land is a geographical exclave of Kentucky that is circled by the states of Tennessee and Missouri -an anomaly caused by the shifting of the Mississippi River.

What is the Kentucky Bend?

1600

During the Spring Retreat, this person was forced to arrive only on the 2nd day due to a flight diversion. 

Who is Peyton?

1600

This Danish physicist, the recipient of the 1922 Nobel Prize in Physics, famously developed a structural model of atoms.

Who is Niels Bohr?

1600

This popular American retail chain closed all of its original standalone stores in 2018 after entering bankruptcy, but its brand is experiencing a resurgence with the opening of over 400 "store-within-a-store" locations in Macy's stores as well as some new standalone locations in malls. 

What is Toys "R" Us?

2000

This 2023 movie -the 33rd Marvel Cinematic Universe film- is considered to be a box-office bomb, only grossed 206 million USD and failed to break even during its theatrical run.

What is The Marvels?

2000

The state of Alaska owns this island, which is part of a group of two islands divided by the International Date Line, that famously has a 21 hour time difference (20 in the summer) from the its sister island, enabling "time travel".

What is Little Diomede?

2000

The house for the Spring Retreat was located in this community in Jasper. 

What is Bent Tree?

2000

This German physicist was responsible for the development of a fundamental constant that sets the scale of quantum effects, demonstrating that energy is quantized in discrete packets. 

Who is Max Planck?

2000
In 2001, American energy corporation Enron was found to have engaged in one of the biggest internal accounting fraud schemes in history, leading to its eventual bankruptcy; it influenced the passing of this piece of legislation in 2002 that mandated certain practices in financial record keeping and reporting for corporations.

What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act?

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