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100

This was the first person to call himself a philosophy ("lover of wisdom"), was the first to divide the globe into five climatic regions, and is the namesake of a theorem concerning the hypotenuse of triangles.

Who is Pythagoras of Samos?

100

This programming language, known for its simplicity and readability, shares its name with a type of snake.

What is Python?

100

Once the most visited social networking site in the world, this company failed to innovate and was quickly overtaken by Facebook in the late 2000s.

What is MySpace?

100

The NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament is held in this month, which gives the tournament its popular nickname.

What is March?

100

This 19th-century art movement, characterized by a focus on light and movement, includes artists like Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

What is Impressionism?

200

I am an odd number. Take away one letter and I become even. What number am I?

What is seven?

200

Designed for creating interactive effects within web browsers, this language's name is often confused with a beverage.

What is JavaScript?

200

This video rental company famously passed on the opportunity to buy Netflix for $50 million in the early 2000s, a decision that preceded its decline.

What is Blockbuster?

200

Teams compete in the NCAA tournament to win this ultimate prize, symbolizing national collegiate basketball supremacy.

What is the National Championship trophy?

200

This term refers to the boundary around a black hole beyond which no light or other radiation can escape.

What is the event horizon?

300

A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost in cents?

What is 5 cents?

300

This language is primarily used for developing applications for Apple's iOS and macOS.

What is Swift?

300

This internet company had the chance to buy Google for $1 million in 1998 and Facebook for $1 billion in 2006 but passed on both.

What is Yahoo?

300

This color is famously worn by the Kentucky Wildcats, a team known for its success in the NCAA tournament.

What is blue?

300

This is the date AND time of the CSBA Spring Banquet

What is Saturday April 27th, 5-7 PM?

400

Product of first 4 two-digit numbers?

What is 17160?

400

This language, developed by Microsoft, is integral to the .NET framework for building Windows applications.

What is C# (C Sharp)?

400

John Schnatter first sold the product of this company in the broom closet of his father’s tavern, way back in the 70s.

What is Papa John's Pizza?

400

This city is known for most frequently hosting the Final Four, the concluding rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament.

What is Indianapolis?

400

This project, completed in 2003, mapped the human DNA sequence, providing valuable information for medicine and biology.

What is the Human Genome Project?

500

How many permutations of 6543210 are divisible by 60?

What is 360?

500

This language, designed at Bell Labs, is known for its simplicity, security, and support for concurrent programming.

What is Go (or Golang)?

500

 Despite its iconic design and feature in a popular film trilogy, this sports car was a commercial failure due to its high price, performance issues, and the financial troubles of its manufacturing company.

What is the DeLorean?

500

This university's men's basketball team, known as the Tar Heels, has won multiple NCAA championships, making it one of the most successful in March Madness history.

What is the University of North Carolina?

500

This series of protests and demonstrations across the Middle East and North Africa began in 2010, challenging long-standing regimes.

What is the Arab Spring?

700

Compute the square root of the following:

(31)(30)(29)(28) + 1

What is 869?

(Source: 1989 AIME Question 1)

700

This esoteric programming language is known for its extreme minimalism and is not intended for practical use, but rather as an experiment in how small a language could be.

What is Brainf*ck?

700

In 2012, this retail chain attempted to eliminate sales and coupons in favor of everyday low prices, a strategy that confused customers and led to a significant sales decline.

What is JCPenney?

700

This iconic arena, located in New York City, has hosted more NCAA Tournament games than any other venue.

What is Madison Square Garden?

700

This obscure rhetorical device refers to the repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses, used to emphasize the finality or importance of the repeated phrase.

What is epistrophe?

1000

This is the sum of the five smallest prime factors of  231165 - 2311.

What is 28?

1000

This language is used within a highly unique, 64-bit, lightweight operating system designed as a modern interpretation of a biblical temple.

What is Holy C?

1000

The busiest location of this fast food franchise is in Munich, Germany

What is McDonald's?

1000

 In 1983, this university's men's basketball team, nicknamed the "Wolfpack," won the NCAA championship in a stunning upset led by coach Jim Valvano.

What is North Carolina State University?

1000

This term refers to the remains of birds or other wildlife that have collided with aircraft, often found on runways or embedded in the aircraft's body, and is crucial for studies in aviation safety and wildlife management.

What is snarge?

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