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100

STUDENTS AND ALUMNI FROM THIS PRESTIGIOUS COLLEGE OF MUSIC IN BOSTON TOOK PART IN THE MAKING OF THE MOVIE CODA?

WHO IS BERKLEY?

100

This psychologist is known for the hierarchy that puts basic needs at the bottom and self‑actualization at the top.

Who is Maslow?

100

This Austrian monk discovered the basic laws of heredity through pea plant experiments.

Who is Gregor Mendel.

100

Add the digits of 9,874.

What is 28.

100

This Mesopotamian ruler created the world’s earliest known law code centuries before Hammurabi.

Who is Ur‑Nammu.

200

THIS TEXAS STATESMAN HAS A CITY NAMED FOR HIM AND A UNIVERSITY, SHSU

WHO IS SAM HOUSTON?

200

This linguist argued that humans are born with an innate capacity for language.

Who is Noam Chomsky?

200

This scientist co-discovered the structure of DNA alongside Watson and Wilkins.

Who is Rosalind Franklin.

200

The difference between 35 and 26.

What is 243 − 64 = 179.

200

This Hellenistic city in modern Afghanistan was a major center of Greco‑Buddhist culture.

What is Ai‑Khanoum

300

THIS UNIVERSITY'S MAY 4TH LEGACY SCHOLARSHIPS WERE ESTABLISHED TO HONOR 4 STUDENTS WHO WERE KILLED ON CAMPUS MAY 4, 1970?

WHAT IS KENT STATE

300

This sociologist coined the term “the sociological imagination.”

Who is C. Wright Mills?

300

This biologist coined the term “cell” after observing cork under a microscope.

Who is Robert Hooke.


300

Compute 62.5% of 384.

What is 240.

300

This 1904–1905 war marked the first time an Asian power defeated a major European empire in modern history.

What is the Russo‑Japanese War.


400

THIS PRIVATE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN NEW JERSEY WAS NAMED FOR A WOMAN WHO WAS ONE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN-BORN SAINTS

WHO IS ELIZABETH ANN SETON OF SETON HALL?
400

This mathematician’s incompleteness theorems changed the foundations of logic.

Who is Kurt Gödel?

400

This immunologist discovered the principle of clonal selection, transforming modern immunology.

Who is Frank Macfarlane Burnet.

400

Increase 540 by 37%, then decrease the result by 18%.

What is 541.6.

400

This Holy Roman Emperor issued the Golden Bull of 1356, shaping imperial elections for centuries.

Who is Charles IV.

500

FLAGLER COLLEGE IN THIS STATE NAMED FOR AN INDUSTRIALIST AND DEVELOPER HAS AS ITS MAIN HALL THE HOTEL PONCE DE LEON WHICH HE BUILT? 

WHAT IS FLORIDA

500

This philosopher’s “phenomenology of spirit” remains one of the most debated works in continental philosophy.

Who is Hegel?

500

This physicist introduced the concept of renormalization in quantum electrodynamics, resolving the infinities that plagued early quantum field theories.

Who is Richard Feynman.

500

Take 2,304, subtract 789, then divide the result by 9.

What is 168

500

This 11th‑century Islamic scholar’s work The Incoherence of the Philosophers reshaped medieval philosophy.

Who is Al‑Ghazali.

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