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100

This was the first battle between completely metal ships

What is the Battle of the Ironclads/Hampton Roads/Monitor and Merrimack?

100

This book is when Percy Jackson discovers that his pen can be used to write

What is The House of Hades?

100

The current name of the historic city, Byzantium

What is Istanbul?

100

This scientist invented Calculus, pioneered optics, universal gravitation theory, and a law of cooling, but had no family

Who is Sir Isaac Newton?

100

This is the Fremen name of Paul Atreides in Dune Part 2

What is Muad'dib?

200

The standard number of pistons in a Ford Mustang or a Chevrolet Corvette

What is 8 pistons?

200

The party that was created by Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren

What is the Democratic Party?

200

The Island that Christopher Columbus landed on in 1492

What is Hispaniola?

200

This Korean company manufactures everything from fridges to phones

What is Samsung?
200

The AI that sent the Terminator back in time to kill Sarah Connor

What is Skynet?

300

This person invented the first steam engine in 1712

Who is Thomas Newcomen?

300

The only character to show up in every Lord of the Ring and Hobbit trilogies as directed by Peter Jackson

Who is Gandalf?

300

The first person executed for treason in the United States

Who is John Brown?

300

This famous physicist earned their first Nobel Prize for work on radiation and their second for the discovery of radium and polonium

Who is Marie Curie?

300

The song that Marty McFly plays at Prom in Back to the Future

What is Johnny B. Goode?

400
This state is where nuclear power was first used to generate electricity on December 20, 1951
What is Idaho?
400

The band that Michael Jackson was initially part of

What are the Jackson 5?

400

The highest DEFCON level was achieved during this event

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis

400

This American businessman became the first verified person to be a billionaire

Who is John D. Rockefeller?

400

This is the demand that the Knights Who Say "Ni!" make to King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

What is a shrubbery?

500

The modified version of this plane completed the world's longest continuous flight of 64 days and 22 hours

What is a Cessna 172?

500

The middle name of the character played by Samuel L. Jackson in the MCU

What is Joseph?

500

The number of days that Lady Jane Gray was Queen of England

What is 9 days?

500

This mathematician discovered so many things that he is often the earliest source of writing, and many of his discoveries were named after the 2nd person to prove it

Who is Leonard Euler?

500
The original name of the planet on which Starkiller Base was made in Star Wars: The Force Awakens

What is Ilum?