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100

This city will host the Olympics in 2028.

What is Los Angeles?

100

This epic space opera by the director of American Graffiti became one of the greatest and most influential films ever made?

What is Star Wars (re-titled A New Hope)

100

The Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act will force the sale of this social media app by January 19 2025.

What is Tik Tok?

100

This Wesleyan alumnus is now the head football coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hil. He is also dating a woman 48 years his junior.

Bill Belichick

100

 This Disney movie originally a brother Grimm Fairy tale features the characters of the Evil Queen and the seven Dwarfs

What is Snow White?

200

Paris 2024 featured the debut of this as an Olympic sport,

What is breaking?

200
Adjusting for inflation this is the highest grossing film of all time

What is Gone with the Wind?

200

"The Bernie Madoff of Crypto", He was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion after he was convicted of all seven counts of fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering

Who is Sam Bankman-Fried?

200

This 2012 ensemble superhero film was written and directed by Wesleyan Alumnus Joss Whedon

What is the Avengers?

200

This fairy tale follows the journey of a young mermaid princess who is willing to give up her life in the sea as a mermaid to gain a human soul

What is The Little Mermaid?

300

The 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team, nicknamed the "Dream Team" featured stars such as Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, and Micheal Jordon. This player was left off the team likely because as Magic Johnson said "Nobody on that team wanted to play with him"

Who is Isiah Thomas?

300

Barbie and Oppenheimer's joint opening weekend was the fourth-largest ever at the American box office. In 2008 Nolan's The Dark Knight also shared a released date with this jukebox musical?

What is Mamma Mia!

300

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced articles of impeachment against these judges over their failure to disclose gifts they have received

Who are Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas?

300

Weslyan Alumni Craig Thomas and Carter Bays co-created this TV Show that uses the main character explaining to his kids how he met his coparent as a frame story

What is How I Met Your Mother?

300

In this fairy tale a girl is stolen from her parents and forced to live in a tower by a sorceress? (name of the fairytale not the disney movie)

What is Rapunzel?

400

This Olympic athlete became the only American to win six Olympic gold medals at the same event?

Who is Diana Taurasi?

400

Roughly half of last years Oscar nominee's including the winner, Oppenheimer, failed this test measuring women's representation in film that requires 2 named female characters to speak to each other about something other than a man.

What is the Bechdel test?

400

On December 13th McKinsey & Company agreed to pay $650 million and enter a deferred prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice to resolve criminal charges related to its advisory work for this company

What is Purdue Pharma?

400

This Wesleyan Alumnus plays Heremes in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series

Who is Lin-Manuel Miranda?

400

This play that later got turned into a disney movie follows in pantomime tradition of casting a young woman in the role of the principal boy.

What is Peter Pan?

500

This Ukrainian athlete was almost banned from competing in the Olympics for refusing to shake hands with her Russian Opponent?

Who is Olga Kharlan?

500

Featuring songs from Idina Menzel and Jonathan Groff this movie spawned a franchise and won an oscar for best original song

What is Frozen?

500

On November 15th, the daughters of this civil rights activist sued the CIA, FBI and NYPD over the this leader’s assassination.

Who is Malcom X(el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz)?

500

This Wesleyan Alumnus plays Captain Roger Peralta in the police procedural sitcom Brooklyn Nine Nine.

Who is Bradley Whitford?

500

In this Disney movie based off of a fairy tale the protoganist protects two mice named Jaq and Gus from being eaten by the cat Lucifer.

What is Cinderella?

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