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100
This 18th-century Austrian princess was the last queen of France, overthrown and executed by the Revolution.
Who was Marie Antoinette?
100
One of the major cities in the US, this city is known for its deep dish pizza and the famous Broadway musical.
What is Chicago, Illinois?
100
These frightening deep sea fish are found in places where the light does not reach. They use the bioluminescent appendage on their forehead to lure unsuspecting prey to their doom.
What is an anglerfish?
100
This Shakespeare play follows "a pair of star-crossed lovers that take their life, in fair Verona where we lay our scene".
What is Romeo and Juliet.
100
This musical term can refer to a large group of singers or the part of a song that repeats at intervals.
What is the chorus?
200
This devastating surprise attack on American warships by Japanese bombers is what convinced the United States to enter World War 2.
What was the Attack on Pearl Harbor?
200
This mountain range borders Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and France. It's used as a descriptor for certain kinds of cheeses, bottled water, and skiing.
What are the Alps?
200
Often referred to as "the powerhouse of the cell" this organelle is responsible for generating energy-rich nucleotides which help the cell to perform necessary functions.
What is mitochondria?
200
This 19th-century American writer and critic became famous for writing short stories like The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Masque of the Red Death.
Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
200
This style of music, originating mostly in Italy in the 17th century, consists of a dramatic narrative set to music and singing. The stars of these performances are often extremely competent vocalists such as Luciano Pavarotti and Maria Callas.
What is opera?
300
The last known Pharaoh of Egypt; this Greek woman supposedly died by self-imposed snake bite.
Who was Cleopatra?
300
Known as the "old capital" of Japan, this city is known for its geisha, matcha tea, and the Fushimi Inari, a shinto shrine where thousands of red torii gates line the trails.
What is Kyoto?
300
This Black Widow, like all spiders, are technically not classified as insects, but as this other term which references the legendary Greek woman who challenged Athena to a weaving competition.
What is an arachnid?
300
Born in 1892, this famous British novelist is known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, widely considered some of the best fantasy novels ever written.
Who is J. R. R. Tolkien?
300
Located on the lower half of the "grand staff", this symbol denotes that the following bars of music are played at a deeper pitch. This notation is usually used for music played on a cello, tuba, or by a tenor vocalist.
What is a base clef?
400
This series of religious wars in the Medieval middle east saw European Christians fighting for control of the "Holy Land" against the native Muslim nations.
What were the Crusades?
400
These two rivers formed what is known to ancient historians as the Fertile Crescent. Both rivers end in the Persian Gulf, and formed the cradle of the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
400
This spongy material inside most bones is what is responsible for producing red blood cells.
What is marrow?
400
This term describes a word that is spelled the same way backwards and forwards.
What is a palindrome?
400
Dubbed the "Queen of Soul" this singer, songwriter, and pianist was named as the greatest singer of all time by Rolling Stone twice, a title that confers a lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
500
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On August 26, 1920, this Constitutional Amendment was passed which gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment?
500
These monolithic stone heads were carved by the native people on Rapa Nui Island. European explorers, however, preferred to name this island after the holiday that they discovered the island on.
What is Easter Island?
500
This is the largest organ in the human body.
What is the skin?
500
This form of poem is made up of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter and composed of four quatrains and a couplet at the end. Shakespeare was famous for these.
What is a sonnet?
500
This traditional instrument from the Indian subcontinent, though widely used in classical Hindustani music, also made an appearance with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the groovy 1960s.
What is a sitar?