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200

The 2001 attack on the World Trade Center

What was 9/11?

200

Known for discovering Polonium and Radium

Who was Marie Curie?

200

This 2023 movie is based on the life of a physicist who shares the same last name as the movie title

What is Oppenheimer?

200

A military operation was conducted by Australia on this animal in 1932

What is an Emu?
400

The only US reactor accident to cause immediate deaths

What was SL1?

400

Considered the founder of modern nursing

Who was Florence Nightingale?

400

This 2019 movie was famously made to appear as a one-shot film and is Dr. Ketcherside's favorite WWI movie

What is 1917?

600

This incident is alleged to have started by a cow kicking over a lantern

What was the Great Chicago Fire?

600

The first black woman to star in a major motion picture, who acted as a spy during WWII, and as a civil rights activist

Who was Josephine Baker?

600

This 1993 film starring Liam Neeson is shot primarily in black and white with a famous exception

What is Schindler's List?

600

This man was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Who was Nikita Khrushchev?

800

The HeLa immortal cell line comes from this woman, whose cells were taken without her consent

Who was Henrietta Lacks?

800

In this year a mysterious Dancing Plague broke out

When was 1518?

1000

Known as the "female Paul Revere," this 16 year old girl traveled 40 miles in 1777 to warn about a British attack

Who was Sybil Ludington?

1000

The manufacturer of the car that carried Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914

What is Gräf & Stift?