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100

Language in which most music is notated.

Italian

100

Time period after the Medieval Ages in Europe.

Renaissance

100

The most ancient form of Chinese character. (Chinese name accepted)

oracle bone script (accept "甲骨文")

100

What happened to the first marathon runner after he completed the marathon.

He collapsed and died

100

Exact value of the Golden Ratio.

(1+√5)/2

200

Complementary color pairs of the tertiary colors of pigment, in the outdated and scientifically unsound RYB model.

Red-orange/blue-green, yellow-orange/blue-violet, yellow-green/red-violet (do not accept "purple" as replacement for "violet" in either case; no one calls it "blue-purple" or "red-purple")

(On the other hand, any synonyms for the abovementioned colors could be accepted after democratic voting)

200

The 12th-century Historia regum Britanniae popularized the legend of this probably-mythical Britannic leader.

King Arthur

200

Why Mesopotamia is called Mesopotamia.

It's between (meso) two rivers (potamia)

200

Non-American contact sport with the highest risk for concussion.

Rugby

200

List the 6 simple machines.

lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, screw

300

Mayonnaise is this type of instrument, under the western/modern classification system.

Percussion

300

U-boat is short for this.

Unterseeboot (accept "undersea-boat")

300

Protolanguage from which English, Spanish, and French (among others) derive.

Proto-Indo-European (accept "PIE") (do not accept "Latin", "Proto-Romance", or "Proto-Italic"; English does not directly relate to Latin and thus is not a Romance/Italic language)

300

_____ has been dominating Olympic diving since 1984; _____ has the most Olympic diving medals in general. (countries)

China; US

300

Invention that made hunter-gatherers abandon their nomadic lifestyle, become sedentary, and start building civilizations.

agriculture (accept "irrigation")

400

Photography "rule" in which important elements are aligned to any of two equally-spaced vertical or horizontal lines or their four intersections.

Rule of thirds

400

Actual pirate(s) commonly referred to as "[color]beard". (real name(s) unnecessary)

Blackbeard and Redbeard/Barbarossa (barba=beard, rossa=red)

(accept "Edward Teach/Thatch/etc. and the Barbarossa brothers, Oruç Reis/Baba Oruç/Barbarossa & Khizr/Hayreddin Barbarossa")

400

Name of symbol denoting "sh" sound in IPA.

Esh [ʃ] (accept "that weird f/s looking thing" if feeling magnanimous, do not accept if not)

400

"The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports".

Kentucky Derby

400

Complementary color pairs of quarks/antiquarks.

Red/antired, green/antigreen, blue/antiblue

500

"Fresh Air", a sculpture made of this material, was sold in 2011 for $10K.

Air (literally nothing) (apparently you're supposed to imagine what it looks like in your head)

500

These two ships fought the first battle between ironclads during the American Civil War.

USS Monitor & CSS Virginia (accept "Merrimack") (neither won, and there was no rematch)

500

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Idigaye, idigit's gidigibbidigeridigish.

500

Male figure skaters (2) with the highest scores under the newest scoring system adopted in the 2018–19 season.

Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu

500

Third largest galaxy in the Local Group.

Triangulum Galaxy (accept "Messier 33", "M33", "NGC 598")

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