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100

This person coined the term "invisible hand" 

Who is Adam Smith?

100

Typically, this swimming stroke is the slowest of four.

What is Breaststroke?

100

Known by schoolchildren everywhere, name the powerhouse of the cell.

What is the Mitochondria?

100

Which Emmy Award-winning producer was behind Glee, Hollywood, the Politician, American Horror Story, and more?

Who is Ryan Murphy?

100

The highest mountain in Kenya, also an extinct stratovolcano. 

What is Mt. Kenya?

200

This graph shoes the relationship between tax rates and government revenue

What is the Laffer Curve?

200

This creature is Scotland's national animal.

What is the Unicorn?

200

Not just the band... The terms AC and DC stand for what in physics/electronics?

What is Alternating and Direct Current?

200
This person holds the record for winning the most Oscar awards.

Who is Walt Disney?

200

This sea lies north of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. 

What is the North Sea?

300

The Gini coefficient is a measure of statistical dispersion most often used in economics and policy to measure what?

What is income inequality?

300

The original colour of Coca-Cola, also the surname of a professor here at UBC. 

What is Green?

300
The only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise.

What is Venus?

300

This actor starred in Doctor Who, and is also known for his leading roles in a popular Game of Thrones spinoff and Netflix's The Crown.

Who is Matt Smith?

300

In 1983 and again in 1999, Prince had a top 40 hit with this song.

What is "1999"?

400

This popular research design requires the common trends assumption to hold for it to be valid.

What is Difference-in-differences?

400
Sharks have this many bones in their bodies.

What is Zero?

400

Dolly was the first-ever living creature to be cloned. The type of animal she was was a _____. 

What is a sheep?

400

In an iconic performance, actor Tom Holland lip-synched this song on the show Lip Sync Battle.

What is "Umbrella" by Rihanna?

400

Carrie Fisher auditioned for Star Wars and this popular horror film at the same time, with both directors present. 

What is Carrie?

500

This Nobel Prize-winning economist, known for monetary dynamics and optimum currency areas, studied at UBC in the VSE.

Who is Robert Mundell?

500

This term is used to describe a word that reads the same forwards and backwards.

What is a Palindrome?

500

The only number spelled with its letters in alphabetical order in the English language.

What is Forty?

500

Called Nakatomi Plaza in the movie, this Los Angeles skyscraper was the primary setting of Die Hard (1988). Its name contains reference to a cute red mammal. 

What is Fox Plaza?

500

In 1452, Leonardo da Vinci was born near a small Tuscan hill town called this. 

What is Vinci?

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