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100

In a music video featuring this game, the name of an infamous monster is repeatedly sung, followed by the phrase “Aw man”. This game was created by Mojang.

What is Minecraft?

100

This inert gas is often used to fill geiger muller tube in geiger counters. It has atomic number 18 and symbol Ar

What is Argon?

100

This artist left the Yellow House in Arles after having a falling out with his friend Paul Gauguin, and painted a series of Sunflowers after moving to France from the Netherlands. This artist painted a looming cypress tree under a swirling sky in his Starry Night.

Who is Vincent van Gogh?
100

This civilization was ruled from Amarna by the husband of Nefertiti. Another female ruler of this civilization, Hat-shep-sut, wore masculine clothing to represent the sun god Ra. This ancient African civilization ruled the area around the Nile river.

What is ancient Egypt?

100

This drug is an extremely addictive, naturally produced alkaloid. Agatha Christie’s Three Act Tragedy is her only novel to use this as a drug as a means of murder. It has become extremely popular to youn people for its electronic method of transportation.

What is nicotine?
200

In high-stakes situations, this character would turn his hat around, his first one of which was red with a white front and a stylised letter L. This protagonist of the Pokémon anime is accompanied by a Pikachu?

Who is Ash Ketchum?

200

This device’s force is equal to stiffness times extension, or “kx", according to Hooke’s law, which describes these simple harmonic oscillators. This device is used in trampolines and stores energy.

What are springs?

200

This Harper Lee novel follows Scout and Atticus Finch through the trial of Tom Robinson in the predominantly racist town of Maycomb, Alabama.

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

200

The Holodomor occurred under this leader, who initially closed churches to advance state atheism under his Second Five-Year Plan prior to reversing course during the Great Patriotic War. He was dictator of the Soviet Union throughout the 1930s and World War II.

Who is Joseph Stalin?

200

In 2007, during the Great Recession, the “adjustable rate” type of this financial product rose too quickly for their borrowers to pay them off, leading to massive foreclosures. This term refers to a loan taken out for the purchase of a house

What are mortgages?

300

He narrated How I Met Your Mother. This actor is more famously known for playing Danny Tanner in Full House and passed away in 2022

Who is Bob Saget?

300

This subatomic particle is composed of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark and has a charge of + 1.

What are protons?

300

This man died at age thirty-five. This composer wrote an unfinished ¨ Requiem and forty-one symphonies, the last of which is nicknamed “Jupiter.” This prolific Austrian child prodigywrote the chamber piece Eine Kleine Nachtmusik [“EYE”-nah KLYE-nah NOKT-moo-zeek], which is sometimes nicknamed “A Little Night Music.”

Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

300

In 1960, the Kennedy campaign was particularly worried about anti-Catholic sentiment in the South, so they selected this Texan protestant as Kennedy’s running mate who became president after Kennedy's assassination.

Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?

300

This term refers to a series of actions done in order to stop the employees of a company from gaining the power to collectively bargain and gain more just representation. This is an illegal thing to do. Companies such as Starbucks and Amazon, and CEOs such as Elon Musk have recently been critisized for doing this.

What is union-busting?

400

This musical is the third longest in Broadway history and features music from Hans Zimmer and Elton John. It is based on a 1994 and then 2018 Disney film of the same name.

What is The Lion King?

400

When this process does not occur properly, it can result in nondisjunctions. During this process, cohesin is broken down and microtubules attached to the kinetochore pull apart sister chromatids. It's a phase of mitosis and meiosis which comes after metaphase.

What is anaphase?

400

In this novel, playboy George Wickham and nobleman Charles Bingley romantically pursue Lydia and Jane, two of the protagonist’s four sisters. “A truth universally acknowledged” about marriage among the wealthy begins this Jane Austen novel in which Elizabeth Bennet at first dislikes, but eventually marries, Mr Darcy.

What is Pride and Prejudice?

400

Athenian hoplite support was turned away in 464 BC by Spartan elites suppressing a helot uprising that occurred after one of these events, further straining relations prior to the Peloponnesian War. The Colossus of Rhodes toppled over due to one of these events as well. These natural disasters thought to be caused by Poseidon's trident, thus earning the god the name "earth shaker."

What are earthquakes?

400

When performing CPR on a teen or an adult, this number represents how many compressions you must complete before 2 rescue breaths are administered and that cycle is then repeated.

What is thirty(30)?

500

This song by Charli XCX appears on the album SUCKER but is more famously recognised for appearing in the 2014 film The Fault in Our Stars. The song includes the lyrics “you’re the glitter and the darkness of my world”.

What is "Boom Clap"?

500

Measurements of this quantity correspond to the azimuthal and magnetic quantum numbers, written as "j" and "l." This quantity is classically defined as the product of mass, velocity, and radius. It's this quantity, an "intrinsic" type of which is spin.

What is angular momentum?

500

In this ballet, written by Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky, Odette and Prince Siegfried kill themselves to escape a curse placed by the evil sorcerer Rothbart, who transforms Odette into the title bird.

What is Swan Lake?

500

This Spaniard led the conquistadors who captured Montezuma, a leader of a Mesoamerican empire based in modern-day Mexico and conquered by the Spanish after the fall of their capital, Tenochtitlan.

Who is Hernán Cortés?

500

The UTK engineering expo is on this date from 1-4:30pm in the student union ballroom.

What is Wednesday, March 1st?

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