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100

The point where a line crosses the y-axis.

What is the y-intercept?

100

The opening word of The Iliad reveals the main theme of the epic.

What is rage (i.e., the rage of Achilles)?

100

The nine areas of a stage are referred to as these 

What are stage directions?

200

What is the quadratic formula?

What is negative b plus/minus the square root of b squared minus 4ac all over 2a?

200

Rather than the classic fairy godmother to provide her with a beautiful gown and special slippers for the ball, this Cinderella figure is aided by the bones of her beloved pet fish.

Who is Yeh-Shen?

200

The narrator of the play Our Town by Thorton Wilder

Who is the Stage Manager.

300

The perpendicular slope to the line 2x + 3y = 12.

What is 3/2?

300

Also known as the "Age of Reason," this period drew inspiration from ancient Greece and Rome.

What is the Neoclassical?

300

The third and final play in Sophocles's Oedipus Trilogy. 

What is Antigone?

400

What is left when simplifying tan (theta) times cosine (theta)? 

What is sine theta.

400

This character in Of Mice and Men lived in separate quarters on the ranch and had a crooked back due to his injury with a horse.

Who is Crooks?
400

The lead actor in the 1995 film Rebel Without a Cause.

Who is James Dean?

500

The value of sin 60 degrees.

What is root 3 over 2.

500

This is the term for when a word is mistakenly used for another that sounds similar, leading to a humorous or nonsensical statement (e.g., "he was looking for an escape goat" instead of "scapegoat").

What is malapropism?

500

This 1968 Stanley Kubrick epic follows humanity from prehistoric dawn to a mysterious monolith near Jupiter.

What is 2001: A Space Odyssey?

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