Physics
Scientists
US History
Writers
Movie Quotes
100
This method of arranging elements into related groups was invented by Dimitri Mendeleyev.
What is the periodic table?
100
Skeptical of developing probability based quantum theory, this leading physicist scoffed, "God does not play dice with the universe."
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
The stock market crash of 1929 precipitated this period of severe economic downturn.
What is "The Great Depression"?
100
Born "Joanne Murray" she went from welfare to multi-millionaire in five years. She later became a billionaire - though she didn't graduate from Hogwarts.
Who is J.K. Rowling?
100
Draco Malfoy (crying): "I don't need your help. I have to do this. I have to kill you...or he's gonna kill me."
What is "Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince"?
200
This planet of our solar system has the fastest rotation.
What is Jupiter (9 hrs. 50 min.)
200
In the 16th century, his work with the earliest telescopes led him to claim that the earth was not the center of the universe. He was jailed for making this claim.
Who is Galileo?
200
In 1954, this famous case that precipitated desegregation, the Supreme Court declared that "separate can never be equal".
What is "Brown v. Board of Ed."?
200
Joseph Keller coined this phrase used to describe a lose / lose situation in his novel of the same name that critiques bureaucratic "thinking".
What is a "Catch 22"?
200
Lines from this movies main character include: "Nobody knows this mall better than I do" "Safety never takes a holiday." And (talking to himself) "What are you trained to do? Nothing."
300
This is sometimes called "The Universal Speed Limit".
What is the speed of light?
300
His articulation of quantum theory, for which he received the Nobel prize in 1918, created a major division between classical and modern physics. His name is also "a constant".
Who is Max Plank? E=hv 6.626 The relationship between between the energy (E) of a photon and the frequency of its associated electromagnetic wave
300
What so called "war" spawned the slogan "Better Dead than Red"?
What is "The Cold War"?
300
This author said, "I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it." Stephen Spielberg must have agreed, he directed "The Color Purple" in 1982, grossing almost 100 million dollars.
Who is "Alice Walker"?
300
In this super grossing film, Col. Quaritch warns, "Out beyond that fence every living thing that crawls flies or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes for jujubees."
What is "Avatar"?
400
"Gravitationally completely collapsed objects" used to be the term for what we now know as these.
What are "Black Holes"?
400
This person, who first proved the existence of galaxies other than our own, later lent his name to a famous space-based telescope that showed many of them in detail for the first time.
Who is Hubble?
400
In response to The Supreme Court's decisions that outlawed some of his policies, this president tried to "stack the court" by changing the number of justices from 9 to 11 so he could make enough appointments to change the Courts findings.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
400
This natural historian turned social critic warned of a "Silent Spring" in 1962, and helped to create the modern environmental movement.
Who is Rachel Carson?
400
2009 Clerk: (slides credit card) "Declined." Rebecca: "Can you try it again?" Clerk: (slides it again) "Really declined."
What is "Confessions of a Shopaholic"
500
The Uncertainty principle states that if you know a particle's velocity, you can not know this about it.
What is location.
500
This "forgotten inventor"'s work formed the basis for developing alternating current (AC), which helped to usher in the "2nd Industrial Revolution".
Who is Tesla?
500
In 1864, this general, in describing his "Scorched Earth Policy" which used the army to target US Civilians, famously said "War is Hell."
Who is Tecumseh Sherman?
500
Known for epics that can fill a shelf, or hurt a student's back, this Russian writer was an ardent Christian anarchist pacifist, whose beliefs influenced Martin Luther King Jr.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
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