Anthropology
USA History
Music
Ancient History
Scientific Conspiracy
100

He is known as the father of anthropology, while in respect to the mother of anthropology, Margaret Mead. 

Who is Frankz Boas?

100

In the wake of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government imprisoned roughly 120,000 Japanese Americans in these without evidence of disloyalty. 

What are concentration camps?

100

Known as the oldest known instrument, it was made out of bear femur found in a cave in Slovenia, dating back 40,000 years. 

What is the Neanderthal Flute?

100

They created the first toothpaste from crushed rock salt, mint, dried iris flowers, and pepper. 

Who are the Ancient Egyptians?

100

A widely debunked claim that routine childhood vaccines caused this.

What is autism?

200

This term is often used when finding an artifact in its final resting place, say.

What is in situ?

200

The westward expansion of the U.S. Relied on the violent dispossession, relocation, and forced assimilation of indigenous tribes, which led to this.

What is the Trail of Tears.

200

16th Century artisans made their original violin strings using this.

What are dried sheep guts?

200

They built advanced sweat baths for hygiene, ritual purification, and even to treat illnesses. 

Who are the Ancient Mayans?

200

The conviction of this that agencies like NASA have faked visual evidence and data for centuries. 

What is flat Earth?

300

This word often has multiple definitions in this field. The mostly used is the one from Charles Darwin.

What is culture?

300

When creating the General Education Board or the GEB in 1902, he said, “I want a nation of workers, not thinkers.” Which has tied him to the engineering of our modern school system. 

Who is John D. Rockefeller?

300

None of the original members of The Beatles knew how to do this.

What is read or write sheet music?

300

They used nightingale and crocodile dung as anti-aging face masks.

Who are the Ancient Greeks and Romans?

300

This theory is the alternative to the Big Bang Theory, stating our universe is actually two universes that smashed into each other. 

What is the Ekpyrotic Universe Theory?

400
These are the four foundational subfields.

What are Sociocultural, Biological (or Physical), Archaeological, and Linguistic?

400

This was the first capital of the United States. 

What is New York City?

400

Warner Music purchased the copyright to this song in 1990 for $15 million, which generates up to $2 million a year. 

What is the Happy Birthday Song?

400

They were the first to use paper specifically for toilet hygiene, with records dating back to the 6th century.

Who are the Ancient Chinese?

400

This theory supposes that we all may be living in a computer emulation created by an alien race in some distant galaxy. Have you seen the Matrix?

What is the Simulation Theory?

500

Melanin is the deep root of this human-problem grouping/labeling. 

What is race or racism?

500

This 17 year old student designed the current 50 star flag as a class project. Received a B- for his work.

Who is Robert G. Heft?

500

An estimated 3-5% of the population suffers from a condition called this, where their brains are simply incapable of deriving pleasure from music. 

What is MusicAl Anhedonia?

500

The ruler of this ancient civilization sometimes wiped out all personal debts across the empire to restore economic balance. 

What is Ancient Mesopotamia?

500

In 2011, Dr. Daryl Bem published a highly contentious paper which described the series of experiments conducted in an effort to discover precognition or knowledge of future events. The evidence gathered led him to believe that future events could indeed affect a person’s cognition in the present. 

What is Retroactive Precognition?