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In this market structure, firms are price takers rather than price makers

Perfect competition

100

The year Cornell University was founded

1865

100

This singer has the record in most grammys as well as nominations

  • Beyonce

100

In this famous tragedy, the first witch has the opening line: "When shall we three meet again?"

Macbeth

100

Strongest muscle in the human body based on its weight

Jaw muscle (masseter)

200

An outcome where no player can benefit by changing their strategy alone

NE

200

This building on campus features a "brain collection" on one of its floors

Uris hall

200

This film had a budget of $237 million and became the highest grossing film of all time

Avatar

200

This sequence of numbers, where each number is the sum of the two preceding ones ($0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8...$), is often found in nature and the "Golden Ratio."

  • The Fibonacci sequence

200

Most watched youtube-video right now

Baby Shark

300

This effect explains why people value an object more highly simply because they own it

endowment effect

300

This woman was a pioneer in nutrition and home economics, becoming one of the first female professors at Cornell and having a building named after her.

Flora Rose

300

When Amazon started out, what did it exclusively sell?

Books

300

Remember your cell biology? E.R. is the abbreviation for this membrane system with a name that's fun to say

Endoplasmic Reticulum

300

What is the only letter in the English alphabet that does not appear in the name of any U.S. State?

Q

400

This concept explains why people feel the pain of a losing more strongly than they feel the joy of an equivalent gain

loss aversion

400

This Cornell singing group takes its name from a famous 2000s comedy movie

  • The Hangovers

400

Which film made history by becoming the first non-English language movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture?

Parasite

400

During the Vietnam War, this Asian city was the headquarters of American military operations

Saigon

400

In the novel 1984, what is the name of the fictional language created by the totalitarian state to limit freedom of thought?

newspeak

500

When individuals behave differently because they are protected from risk

Moral Hazard

500

This alumnus and NHL Hall of Famer was a star goalie for Cornell before winning six Stanley Cups

Ken Dryden

500

In the hit sci-fi series Severance, which character becomes a viral meme for his unsettlingly intense dancing during a "Music Dance Experience"?

Mr. Milchick

500

 Thicker around the edge than at the center, this type of lens causes light waves to diverge when passing through it

concave

500

This famous 2000s move features a society where you can predict people's crimes before they happen

Minority Report

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