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100

English Breakfast and Earl Grey are two kinds of these

What is tea?
100

The diaphragm and tongue are both examples of these

What are muscles?

100

Marie Curie discovered radium, and this element named after her country of birth

What is polonium?

100

This war was also known as "Mr. Madison's War"

What is the War of 1812?

100

This famous embroidery shows the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England

What is the Bayeux Tapestry?

100

This playwright wrote "As You Like It" and "The Tempest"

Who is William Shakespeare?

100
Seven Against Thebes was written by this ancient Greek playwright

Who is Aeschylus?

100

This Dutch artist painted this portrait of Dr. Gachet, alongside other famous paintings involving skies and cypress trees

Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

100

This artist painted this work, titled Composition II, using basic shapes and primary colors

Who is Piet Mondrian?

100

This falcon-headed Egyptian deity is the god of the sky and war

Who is Horus?

100

Some astrologers argue there are 13 instead of 12 zodiac signs; this sign is the 13th

What is Ophiuchus?

100

This river starts in Minnesota and empties into the Gulf of Mexico

What is the Mississippi River?

100

This fort in Oregon where Lewis and Clark stayed during the winter of 1805 to 1806

What is Fort Clatsop?

100

This football team had a perfect season in 1972 under coach Don Shula

What is the Miami Dolphins?

200

What is Niger?

200

DNA has two strands; RNA has this many strands

What is one?

200
A measure of fluid's resistance to flow

What is viscosity?

200

The Byzantine Empire fell to this empire when it lost Constantinople in 1453

What is the Ottoman Empire?

200
This war ended with the Treaty of Westphalia

What is the Thirty Years' War?

200

This poetic form uses 14 lines, and usually ends with a couplet

What is a sonnet?

200
"The Lusiads" is an epic poem from this country, which details the journey of Vasco da Gama

What is Portugal?

200
"The Art of" this, it was pioneered by the works of J.S. Bach

What is the fugue?

200
The symphonies labeled "Titan" and "Resurrection" are by this Austrian composer

Who is Gustav Mahler?

200

Theravada, Mahayana, and Zen are all branches of this religion

What is Buddhism?

200

The first five books of the Hebrew Bible is known by this term

What is the Pentateuch?

200

This country's flag is unique in that it is the only country in the world that has a pennant shaped flag

What is Nepal?

200

This highest elevated capital city is around 11,942 feet above sea level

What is La Paz?

200

This recent horror/sci-fi movie features a doll with AI intelligence designed by Gemma

What is M3GAN?

300

La Guerra de las Malvinas is another name for this 1980s conflict between Argentina and Great Britian

What is the Falklands War?

300

In 1964, this event rocked Alaska, causing 131 deaths

What is an earthquake?

300

This device stores electrical energy in an electric field with two conducting plates

What is a capacitor?

300
This leader was the first head of government of the Soviet Union

Who is Vladimir Lenin?

300

King Leopold II founded an African colony that later became this modern nation

What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?

300

John Donne wrote "no man is an" this, which is also a home for Doctor Moreau

What is an island?

300

Sylvia Plath wrote "The Bell Jar," while this poet of "The Thought Fox" was her husband

Who is Ted Hughes?

300

This musical was based on Puccini's "La Boheme," and involved characters such as Mark, Roger, and Mimi

What is Rent?

300

This Spanish museum houses "Las Meninas," as well as works by Goya and El Greco

What is El Prado? (accept Museo del Prado)

300

This famous ancient philosopher wrote about the Allegory of the Cave in The Republic`

Who is Plato?
300

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is by this American anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas

Who is Ruth Benedict?

300

This mountain range contains Cotopaxi and Aconcagua

What is the Andes?

300

Sri Lanka was originally known by this name

What is Ceylon?

300

Recent albums of his include Certified Loverboy and Honestly Nevermind

Who is Drake (accept Aubrey Graham)?
400

This famous American writer wrote "I hate quotation, tell me what you know"

Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?

400

This force occurs when an object slides on a surface

What is friction?

400

The three periods of the Mesozoic Era are the Triassic, Jurassic, and this

What is Cretaceous?
400

Japanese internment occurred during this global conflict

What is World War II (WWII)?

400

This Mesopotamian writing system consists of wedge-shaped impressions

What is cuneiform?

400

This play by Thornton Wilder centers on the Gibbs and Webb families

What is Our Town?

400
There are Poetic and Prose versions of this, old Norse narratives and poems that are mostly anonymous

What is the Edda?

400

"Christ the Redeemer" can be seen in this South American country

What is Brazil?

400

Louis Sullivan designed the Wainwright Building and this building named after a life insurance company

What is the Prudential Building?

400

Structural and frictional are types of this concept, the condition in which people seek work but cannot find a job

What is unemployment?

400

Libertarianism is contrasted with this philosophical view that all events are determined by previously existing causes

What is determinism?

400

This country was originally known as East Pakistan

What is Bangladesh?

400

A 2011 earthquake rocked this New Zealand city, and was later considered New Zealand's fifth deadliest disaster

What is Christchurch?

400

This famous director and script writer worked on movies such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now

Who is Francis Ford Coppola?

500

These waves are used to determine the structure of crystals

What are X-rays?

500

This French chemist came up with the law of conservation of mass

Who is Antoine Lavoisier?

500

Cell organelle that processes, sorts, and sends proteins to other cell areas

What is the Golgi apparatus? (accept Golgi body)

500

This "Sun King" ruled France from 1643 to 1715

Who is Louis XIV?

500

This muckraker published "The History of the Standard Oil Company" in McClure's 

Who is Ida Tarbell?

500

This literary movement included road trippers Ken Kesey and Jack Kerouac, as well as the poet Allen Ginsberg

What is the Beat Generation? (accept Beatniks or Beat)

500

The Newbery Award is for distinguished children's literature, while THIS award is for distinguished illustration of children's literature

What is the Caldecott Award?

500

This type of dance involves pirouettes and plies

What is ballet?

500

Works like Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q and Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 are a part of this art movement

What is Dada?

500

This Biblical figure was responsible for baptizing Jesus, hence his name

Who is St. John (the Baptist)?

500

This Iranian religion is one of the oldest organized faiths

What is Zoroastrianism?

500

This is the tallest mountain in Japan, located on the island of Honshu

What is Mt. Fuji?

500

This country gained independence from Portugal and Indonesia

What is East Timor (accept Timor-Leste)?

500
The "Fighting Irish" is the nickname of this Indiana basketball team

What is Notre Dame?

600

This election year was the first time a president won with fewer popular votes

What is the election of 1876?

600

The optic nerve serves this organ

What is the eye?

600

The Joule-Thomson effect describes a change in this when a gas is forced through a valve

What is temperature?

600

This famous "doctrine" warned European powers not to colonize Central and South America

What is the Monroe Doctrine?

600

This colorful rebellion ended the Yuan Dynasty in China

What is the Red Turban Rebellion?
600

"Maman died today, or yesterday maybe" starts this famous novel by Albert Camus

What is The Stranger? (accept L'Etranger)

600

It's not a famous George Orwell novel, but this novel by Haruki Murakami involves Aomame and her run-in with the Sakigake religious cult

What is 1Q84?

600
Andy Warhol and Roy Liechtenstein were part of this art movement inspired by advertising and comic books

What is pop art?

600

The earliest known examples of prehistoric art can be found in this series of caves located in France

What is Lascaux?

600

These spirits, sometimes called "holy powers," are revered in Shinto

What are kami?

600

This mother of Andromeda was considered arrogant and vain, and was the wife of King Cepheus

Who is Cassiopeia?

600

Madagascar contains the mouse and ring-tailed type of this primate

What is the lemur?

600

This man is the current dictator of Belarus

Who is Alexander Lukashenko?

600

Lance Armstrong won this race seven times, but his titles were later stripped due to a scandal involving performance enhancing drugs

What is the Tour de France?

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