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100

This element is known to emit a bright light when it undergoes combustion (a fact known to many chem students!) 

What is magnesium?

100

In 2008, this singer famously shaved her head.

Who is Britney Spears?

100

In The Matrix, Neo takes this color pill.

What is the red pill?
100

This animal is the symbol of rebellion in the Hunger Games franchise.

What is the mockingjay?
100

This spot on Cranbrook campus should not be stepped on.

What is the Friendship Circle?
200

This bone is the biggest in the body.

What is the femur?

200

Although this song has been rerecorded by many artists, this Frenchwoman was the original singer of La Vie en Rose.

Who is Edith Piaf?

200

This was the solution to the final math problem that Cady (Lindsay Lohan) was presented within Mean Girls.

What is no limit/the limit does not exist?

200

In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden questions this of the fauna in Central Park.

What is where the ducks go in the winter?

200

This instructor has been teaching at Cranbrook for 51 years and has taught some of your teachers, too!

Who is Mr. Conner?

300

A free-falling object on Earth has an acceleration of this, in meters per second squared.

What is 9.8 meters per second squared?

300

This mysterious show is the longest-running musical on Broadway.

What is The Phantom of the Opera?

300

This UC school is where Troy from the High School Musical franchise ends up attending.

What is UC Berkeley?

300

The names of the two warring family clans in Shakespeare's epic tale of Romeo and Juliet.

What are Montague and Capulet?

300

According to teacher Rick Bowdy, this academic department is the most talkative (and throws the best parties!)

What is the foreign language department?

400

This instrument is used to measure wind speed:

a) fanometer

b) barometer

c) anemometer

d) altimeter

What is c) anemometer?

400

Freddie Mercury attributed his enhanced vocal range to this:

a) autotune 

b) extra teeth

c) larger lungs

d) lots of practice

What is b, extra teeth?

400

In the 1993 film Jurassic Park, this was used to fill the gaps in dinosaur DNA sequences.

What is frog DNA?

400

This is the narrator in The Book Thief.

Who is Death?

400

Behind Cranbrook House, a statue of this Greek god shoots water out of its eyes.

Who is Zeus?

500

This is the function of the appendix in the human body.

What is nothing?

500

King of Pop Michael Jackson originally envisioned this song as a duet with Prince.

What is Bad?

500

This is the kind of car that Cameron's father owns in Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

What is a Ferrari?

500

This character is the most adapted book character ever, having been depicted on screen 250+ times.

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

500

After completing an art installation at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, this artist designed the 1988 Cranbrook yearbook. 

Who is Keith Haring?

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