Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes fame once described this mascot as "a hairless nut"
What is the Buckeye?
100
This element, also known as wolfram, is used in incandescent light bulb filaments
What is tungsten?
100
Roman city destroyed in 79 AD or song released in 2013 with the lyrics "Great clouds roll over the hills bringing darkness from above"
What is Pompeii?
100
A type of wetland dominated by soft-stemmed plants
What is a marsh?
100
In a little over 12 years, this man went from being a political prisoner on Robben Island to the presidential palace in Pretoria. He died of a respiratory infection on December 5
Who is Nelson Mandela?
200
Students suggested the Robber Barons after this college's original mascot was dropped, but the school settled on the Cardinal instead
What is Stanford?
200
In 1997, unnilseptium was renamed after this Danish physicist who developed the first working quantum model of the atom
Who is Niels Bohr?
200
Territory contested during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 or a Led Zeppelin song
What is Kashmir?
200
Fossilized tree resin
What is amber?
200
This British premier who introduced several supply-side economic policies and led the UK during the Falklands War died of a stroke on April 8
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
300
UTSA has this for their mascot; they would likely be favored against the South Dakota Coyotes
What are the roadrunners?
300
DAILY DOUBLE
Two of the four elements named after a planet (or a god who shares their name with a planet)
300
This person burned at the stake for heresy in 1431 was the subject of an Arcade Fire song with the lyrics "Tu dis que je suis une sainte, mais ce n'est pas moi"
Who is Joan of Arc?
300
Prime minister preceding Churchill
Who is (Neville) Chamberlain?
300
This English journalist and media personality, famous for his interviews of Richard Nixon, died on August 31
Who is David Frost?
400
Named by ESPN as one of the ten best in college basketball, UC-Santa Cruz's website describes this mascot as "yellow, slimy, slow, and totally awesome"
What are banana slugs?
400
One of the first to be synthetically produced, this element was naturally named after the Titan who stole fire from the gods
What is promethium?
400
Last name of Britain's only prime minister of Jewish birth or first word of the Cream album with the tracks "Sunshine of Your Love" and "Strange Brew"
What is Disraeli?
400
Literally, "of the dunes"
What is VanDuinen?
400
This former Velvet Underground frontman died of liver disease on October 27
Who is Lou Reed?
500
A plurality of schools in the SEC have this mascot
What are the Tigers?
500
Dmitri Mendeleev predicted the existence of this element located between zinc and germanium on the periodic table; it was discovered in France four years later
What is gallium?
500
Sobriquet for French King Louis XIV or Beatles song where "Everybody's laughing, everybody's happy"
What is the Sun King?
500
A type of smelt indigenous to the Arctic and North Atlantic
What is capelin?
500
The author of several thrillers featuring spy Jack Ryan died on October 1