While in jail for staging the failed Beer Hall Putsch, this leader wrote the autobiographical Mein Kampf
Who is Adolf Hitler?
100
Ryan Lochte falsely claimed he had been robbed at gunpoint while attending the 2016 Summer Olympics in this city
What is Rio de Janeiro?
100
This Dutch artist who cut off his ear was stuck in an asylum room when he painted his "Starry Night"
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
100
Perseus used the reflection in his shield to behead this monstrous woman, who had snakes for hair and could turn you to stone
Who is Medusa?
100
The elderly Carl Fredricksen takes to the skies in this 2009 balloon-filled Pixar production
What is Up?
200
In 1990, F.W. de Klerk released this anti-apartheid South African leader from jail; he later won the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize
Who is Nelson Mandela?
200
Mirai Nagasu recently became the third woman ever to land a triple axel at the Olympics; she competes in this sport
What is figure skating?
200
Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" receives thousands of visitors a day at its home in this most popular Parisian museum
What is the Louvre?
200
Anubis served as the jackal-headed god of the dead in the mythology of this ancient civilization
What is Egypt?
200
If you haven't seen this 2003 Will Ferrell Christmas movie, you're a cotton-headed-ninny-muggins
What is Elf?
300
In 2016, PM Theresa May began her country's process of withdrawing from the European Union, which was known by this 6-letter term
What is Brexit?
300
In 2022, this city will become the first ever to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, hosting previously in 2008
What is Beijing?
300
This Renaissance artist sculpted a marble David and also painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City
Who is Michelangelo?
300
Persephone became trapped in the Underworld with Hades after eating one of these reddish fruits
What is a pomegranate?
300
The title character drops a snowglobe and utters the word "Rosebud" before dying in this 1941 Orson Welles masterpiece
What is Citizen Kane?
400
As the first female head of a Muslim majority nation, Benazir Bhutto served as Prime Minister of this Asian country with capital at Islamabad
What is Pakistan?
400
The US hosted the 1980 Winter Olympics in the ski town of Lake Placid, which is in this state
What is New York?
400
This Abstract Expressionist was known as "Jack the Dripper" for his unusual method of dripping or pouring paint directly onto canvases
Who is Jackson Pollock?
400
Two clans of warring brothers fight a giant war in the Mahabharata, an ancient Hindu epic written in this language
What is Sanskrit?
400
Allison Janney won an Academy Award for her portrayal of the title character's mother in this 2017 biopic about a figure skating scandal involving Nancy Kerrigan
What is I, Tonya?
500
This current Philippine president has drawn harsh criticism for his support of extrajudicial killings of drug users
Who is Rodrigo Duterte?
500
The Palestinian terrorist group Black September kidnapped and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in this European city
What is Munich?
500
Melting clocks feature prominently in this Spanish surrealist artist's "The Persistence of Memory"
Who is Salvador Dali?
500
This Shinto sun goddess hid inside of a cave after a feud with her brother Susanoo, but she was drawn out after another goddess stripped and danced in a tub
Who is Amaterasu?
500
"The Shining", "2001: A Space Odyssey", and "A Clockwork Orange" were all directed by this provocative American filmmaker