The R&D Tax Credit
WMD Treaties
Physics
Vladimir Putin's Russia
Here on Capitol Hill
100

Instead of the regular method, a business can use this to claim a credit of 14 percent of the amount by which its qualified research expenses for the year exceed 50% of its average qualified research expenses for the preceding three tax years.

What is the Alternative Simplified Credit?

100

This is the first legally binding international agreement to comprehensively prohibit nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal being their total elimination. 

What is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)?

100

This property of wave propagation limits the theoretical resolution of an imaging system.

What is diffraction?

100

This person is believed to control the Russian paramilitary "Wagner Group"

Who is Yevgeny Prighozin?

100

The name of the statue on top of the Capitol dome

What is the Statue of Freedom?

200

Formerly a permanent feature of the Internal Revenue Code, this tax research tax preference was given a 5-year sunset as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

What is the 174 deduction?

200

The organization charged with administering the Chemical Weapons Convention

What is the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)?

200

The imaging error introduced by a broadband light source is referred to as this type of aberration.

What is chromatic aberration?

200

In this family, poison was used against Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

What is Novichok?

200

The year did the British set the Capitol on fire.

What is 1814?

300

The United States has descended to this rank, among its OECD competitors, in terms of federal tax support for research and development.

What is 26th?

300

The nuclear arms agreement that the United States pulled out of in 2019

What is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)?

300

The 2020 Nobel Laureates in physics were selected for their work on black holes, the existence of which are predicted by this theory of Einstein.

What is general relativity?

300

This chess move term was used to describe the orchestrated swap in leadership positions between Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev

What is castling?

300

This founding father argued senators should have lifelong terms

Who was Alexander Hamilton?

400

For calculating the Regular Research Credit, companies compare their current year eligible expenditures with those from this qualifying base period, if they were around back then.

What is 1984-1988?

400

The first international agreement banning the use of chemical weapons?

The Strasbourg Agreement (1675-Between France and the Holy Roman Empire and circumscribed the use of poisoned bullets)

400

Due to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, this physical property will never decrease in a closed system.

What is entropy?

400

KGB Major Vladimir Putin was stationed in this German city in the 1980s.

What is Dresden?

400

Where late 19th century senators bathed during the months Congress was in session

What is Six large Italian marble tubs in the basement of the Capitol?

500

Fellow Jamie Gardner formed an unlikely friendly relationship with this longtime, senior staffer on the Joint Committee for Taxation.

Who is Kashi Way?

500

The date New Start will expire if not extended.

What is February 5, 2021?

500

This famous differential equation describes the wave function of a non-relativstic quantum system.

What is Schrodinger's equation?

500

The St Petersburg Mayor that Vladimir Putin served as Deputy Mayor

Who is Anatoly Sobchak?

500

The member of Congress whose Capitol office was the former post office on the House side and where then- Representative Abraham Lincoln regularly huddled with colleagues

Who is Majority Whip James Clyburn?

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