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A Category for Science Grad Students
100

In the Wizard of Oz, Dorothy tells Toto they are no longer in this state and as President Trump learned neither are the Chiefs

What is Kansas?

100

Helping lead the Raven's record setting defense during their victory in Superbowl XXV, Ray Lewis is at the top of the NFL career leaderboard for this defensive move

What is a tackle?

100

Gotta catch 'em all or at least these clues! This video game franchise released its Red and Green versions in 1996 where you could for the first time catch pocket monsters like Aerodactyl, Electabuzz, and Snorlax

What is Pokemon?

100

In South Korea, it is an ill omen to write a person's name in this color ink due to its association with death and the nation's own history

What is red?

100

According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, 3.1 million graduate students are attending graduate programs to complete PhDs which is an acronym for this

What is Doctor of Philosophy?

200

In a very consequential decision for civil and criminal cases, the 2020 Supreme Court determined that half of this state was a part of the Native American Creek reservation

What is Oklahoma?

200

The American version of this improvisational TV show was hosted by Drew Carey (and later in a 2013 revived version Aisha Tyler) where four individuals act out a variety of funny situations on the fly

What is Whose Line Is It Anyways?

200

In 1995, after a nine month trial, car chase and gloves not fitting, this man was found not guilty in the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman

Who is O.J. Simpson?
200

If you are a part of a Polterabend, where guest shatter porcelain and other breakable objects only for the soon to be wed couple to clean them up, you are celebrating a custom from this country

What is Germany?

200

Among a long list of other accomplishments this is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields. If only someone had told this Polish scientist to take the radioactive elements out of her pocket.

Who is Marie Curie?

300

This state is a big fan of Conecuh Ridge Fire Whiskey making it the only state with an alcoholic state drink

What is Alabama?

300

Making a record $441.3 million over 22 season of baseball and holding the record for most grand slams Austin Rodriguez, known by this not so clever nickname, became a household name

Who is A Rod?

300

In 1995, this spacecraft was named after the Italian astronomer also known as the "father of observational astronomy/modern physics/the scientific method/modern science" and the first to orbit Jupiter and its moons

What is Galileo?

300

Currently more on an attitude than a ritual in modern Japan, this samurai practice was suicide by disembowelment that supposedly restored honour

What is seppuku/harakiri?

300

Bed bugs are attracted to this gas as it indicates the presence of humans so they can be lured with dry ice

What is carbon dioxide?

400

A 2003 study used polynomial equations and topographic algorithms to discover Kansas was flatter than an IHOP pancake but that this state was actually the flattest of the 50 state shortstack

What is Florida?

400

Name this song and band

What is Hook by Blues Traveler?

400

When it was founded in 1996, search engine Ask.com use to go by this url named after "a gentlemen's personal gentlemen" or the valet in PG Woodhouse

400

Deep in the Amazon, the boys of the Satere-Mawe tribe must repeatedly wear gloves containing dozens of these insects whose sting is recorded as 30x more painful than a bee just to be recognized as a man

What is a bullet ant?

400

DAILY DOUBLE!!!!

What is Tyrannosaurus?

500

Seinfeld had an episode about the generous recycling policy of this state where each can or bottle is a whopping 10 cent refund for the individual who recycles it

What is Michigan?

500

Based on a novel by Daniel Wallace, this 2003 film directed by Tim Burton features Southern gothic tall tales about swamp villages, circus freaks, bank robberies, the Vietnam war and of course one large mudcat

What is Big Fish?

500

Repealed in 1995, the National Maximum Speed Law was suppose to keep drivers under this speed limit due to the Middle East Oil Crisis but was widely disregarded by motorists

What is 55 MPH?

500

Along the Thailand-Myanmar border lies a tribe belonging to a subgroup of this ethnic people known for wearing brass rings around their neck which appears to lenghten it

What is the Karen/Kayan tribe?

500

In 1865 physicist Rudolf Clausius coined this term for the measure of disorder or randomness in a system

What is entropy?

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