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200

This black and white mammal is famous for eating bamboo almost exclusively.

What is a panda?

200

This is the largest ocean on Earth.

What is the Pacific Ocean?

200

This Fleetwood Mac song features the lyric “Thunder only happens when it's raining.”

What is “Dreams”?

200

This cocktail is made with bourbon or rye whiskey, sugar, bitters, and traditionally an orange peel.

What is an Old Fashioned?

200

In this famous thought experiment, you must decide whether to divert a runaway trolley to kill one person instead of five.

What is the trolley problem?

400

This is the fastest land animal, capable of reaching speeds of around 70 mph in short bursts.

What is a cheetah?

400

This ancient civilization built the Pyramids of Giza.

Who are The Ancient Egyptians?

400

This 1970s rock song famously begins with “Just a small-town girl.”

What is “Don't Stop Believin'”?

400

This orange-flavored liqueur is a key ingredient in both a Sidecar and a classic Margarita.

What is triple sec?

400

This psychological phenomenon describes the tendency to favor information that supports what you already believe.

What is confirmation bias?

600

This is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight.

What is a bat?

600

A shirt costs $40 and is discounted by 25%. This is the final price before tax.

What is $30?

600

This OutKast hit asks listeners to “shake it like a Polaroid picture.”

What is “Hey Ya!”?

600

Guinness, the famous Irish dry stout, originated in this capital city.

What is Dublin?

600

This German philosopher and economist co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.

Who is Karl Marx?

800

This marine mammal sleeps with one half of its brain awake at a time.

What is a dolphin?

800

This is the name for a word that reads the same forward and backward, such as “racecar.”

What is a palindrome?

800

This 1975 song begins with the line “She said, ‘Hello’.”

What is “The Sound”?

800

This three-ingredient cocktail combines gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth in equal proportions.

What is a Negroni?

800

This ethical principle judges an action largely by whether it produces the greatest overall happiness for the greatest number.

What is utilitarianism?

1000

This class of animals, whose name means "double life," includes frogs, toads, and salamanders.

What are amphibians? 

1000

This property of multiplication states that changing the grouping of factors does not change the product.

What is the associative property?

1000

This 2000s song by The Fray opens with a piano riff and is about trying to save a failing relationship.

What is “How to Save a Life”?

1000

This term describes the process in which yeast converts sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide.

What is fermentation?

1000

This philosopher's famous allegory describes prisoners who mistake shadows on a cave wall for reality.

Who is Plato?

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