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100
Which country ranks the highest according to the UN's Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index?
Iceland
100
What year marked the end of the French Revolution?
1799
100
Which organelle is only present in plant cells?
Chloroplast
100
Jennifer Lawrence portrays which character in the X-Men films?
Mystique
100
In Shakespeare's Othello, which character persuades Othello to be suspicious of Cassio and Desdemona's relationship?
Iago
200
Hadley Cells are low-latitude overturning circulations that have air rising at the equator and air sinking at roughly how many degrees latitude?
20°-40°
200
Name one of the two Sumerian cities where the world's earliest known texts come from.
Uruk or Jemdet Nasr
200
Titus is the largest moon of which planet in our Solar System?
Saturn
200
What is Nicki Minaj's government name?
Onika Tanya Maraj
(Onika Maraj also accepted)
200
The Stranger (L'Étranger) is a 1942 novel by which French author?
Albert Camus
300
In which lecture did Foucault coin the term 'the conduct of conduct'?
Security, Territory, Population (Sécurité, Territoire, Population)
300
Since the 19th century the United States government has participated and interfered in the replacement of many foreign governments, often driven by corporate interests and geopolitical strategy. What country in the Pacific was the first to experience US involvement in a successful regime change?
Samoa in the 1880s
300
Which law of thermodynamics states that "if two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other."
Zeroth Law
300
Which film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016?
Moonlight
300
What is the name of the following 1931 painting by Salvador Dalí?
The Persistence of Memory (La Persistencia de la Memoria)
400
Which Asian country has experienced the fastest rate of desertification in the 21st century?
Mongolia
400
Cleopatra being alive during the construction of the pyramids is a common historical misconception. How many years after the finalization of the Great Pyramid of Giza was Cleopatra born?
~2,500 years
400
What chemical compound is represented by the following formula NH3?
Ammonia
400
i finally understand is a song from which Charli xcx album?
how i'm feeling now
400
The Benin Bronzes are a group of several thousand metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin in what is now which country?
Nigeria
500
Hack's law is an empirical relationship between the length of streams and the area of their basins. If L is the length of the longest stream in a basin and A is the area of the basin, how may Hack's law be expressed for some constant C?
L = C Ah
or
L = C A0.06
500
On the first day of the May Fourth protests in Beijing in 1919 what student from Beijing Normal University is credited with being the first protestor to enter the Zhaojialou Mansion and burn it down?
Kuang Husheng
500
What is the name of the broad muscle in the lower calf, below the gastrocnemius, that flexes the foot to point the toes downward?
Soleus muscle
500
Which album and artist won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1999?
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill
500
The following sand painting comes from which Indigenous nation?
Navajo Nation