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The first Nobel laureate in physics

Who was Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen?

100

This person moved in a cross the hall from Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter

Who is Penny?

100

In the Halo franchise, this intergalactic abomination first appears in the level 343 Guilty Spark

What is the flood?

100

This black hole is seen in the movie Insterstellar

What is Gargantuan?

100

This mathematician and logician proved the incompleteness theorems

Who was Kurt Gödel?

200

This person won the Nobel "For his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect"

Who was Albert Einstein?

200

Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler won the Nobel prize for the discovery of this principle

What is super-asymmetry?

200

In the Halo franchise, this space station is the capital city of the Covenant

What is High Charity?

200

This black hole sits at the center of the Milky Way

What is Sagittarius A*?

200

This silent film movie star was known for his distinctive mustache

Who was Charlie Chaplin?

300

The first year that no Nobel prize was awarded in physics

When was 1916?

300

This person is the protagonist of a yet-unreleased spinoff of the Big Bang Theory

Who is Stuart Bloom?

300

In the Halo franchise, this Sangheili is the Shipmaster of the Shadow of Intent and the Fleet Master of the Fleet of Retribution

Who is Rtas 'Vadum?

300

This is the radius of the event horizon of a black hole

What is the Schwarzschild radius?

300

This scientist was the first wife of Albert Einstein

Who was Mileva Marić?

400

This person won the Nobel prize along with Richard Feynman and Sin-Itiro Tomonaga 

Who was Julian Schwinger?

400

The father of Bernadette Rostenkowski-Wolowitz

Who is Mike Rostenkowski?

400

In the Halo franchise, this serial number belongs to UNSC AI Cortana

Who is CTN 0452-9?

400

This metric tensor is the solution to the Einstein field equations for a spinning black hole

What is the Kerr metric?

400

This mathematician is known for her work in group theory, particularly with respect to conservation laws in physics

Who was Emmy Noether?

500

This person won the Nobel "For the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms" 

Who was Alfred Kastler?

500

These real-life Nobel-winning cosmologists appeared in the Big Bang Theory TV show

Who are George Smoot and Kip Thorne?

500

In the Halo franchise, this Forerunner structure sits at the center of Installation 00

What is the Ark's Foundry?

500

These theorems show that singularities form within the mathematical context of general relativity

What are the Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems?

500

This Swiss-Italian engineer was one of Albert Einstein's closest friends

Who was Michele Besso?

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