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100

This spirit, flavored with juniper berries, is the base of a classic martini.

What is gin?

100

This 1986 John Hughes film follows a Chicago teen who fakes being sick to skip school, enlisting his best friend and girlfriend for a day of adventure.

What is Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

100

This mountain range runs from British Columbia down to New Mexico, forming the backbone of the western U.S.

What are the Rocky Mountains?

100

This social media platform, launched in 2004, was originally restricted to Harvard students only.

What is Facebook?

100

This fossil fuel, formed from ancient marine organisms, is refined into gasoline and diesel.

What is petroleum (oil)?

200

This semi-hard Dutch cheese is named after the city where it originated.

What is Gouda?

200

This 1984 Bill Murray comedy about paranormal investigators in NYC spawned a theme song that topped the charts.

What is Ghostbusters?

200

This is the longest river in the United States, running through the central Plains before joining the Mississippi.

What is the Missouri River?

200

In this 90s sitcom, Steve Urkel is the nerdy next-door neighbor constantly bothering the Winslow family.

What is Family Matters?

200

This process splits uranium atoms apart to release energy, and powers nuclear plants.

What is nuclear fission?

300

Around 1440, this German inventor developed a printing press with movable type that transformed the spread of information.

Who is (Johannes) Gutenberg?

300

This Seattle-based sitcom about a radio psychiatrist, starring Kelsey Grammer, premiered in 1993 as a spinoff of Cheers.

What is Frasier?

300

This is the only U.S. state that shares a border with just one other state.

What is Maine?

300

In the show's second act, this song finds Hamilton confessing an affair in print to preemptively defuse a blackmail scheme, effectively destroying his political reputation and marriage.

What is "The Reynolds Pamphlet"?

300

This device converts the direct current a solar panel produces into the alternating current your home actually uses.

What is an inverter?

400

This volcanic island chain off Ecuador's coast inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

What are the Galápagos (Islands)?

400

This 1991 James Cameron sequel featured a liquid-metal villain and was, at the time, the most expensive film ever made.

What is Terminator 2: Judgment Day?

400

Covering parts of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah, this is the driest desert in North America.

What is the Mojave Desert?

400

Completed in 1911, this dam on the Salt River was one of the first major federal reclamation projects and helped make Phoenix's growth possible.

What is Theodore Roosevelt Dam?

400

This 1979 partial meltdown at a Pennsylvania nuclear plant remains the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power history.

What is Three Mile Island?

500

This metal-barred percussion instrument, played with mallets, resembles a xylophone but rings with a bell-like tone.

What is a glockenspiel?

500

This 1988 animated Robert Zemeckis film blended live action and animation, following a private eye investigating a murder in a world where cartoon characters are real.

What is Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

500

Located in California, this is the lowest point in North America at 282 feet below sea level.

What is Badwater Basin (Death Valley)?

500

In 1926, this Scottish scientist accidentally discovered the first true antibiotic when mold contaminated one of his bacterial cultures.

Who is Alexander Fleming?

500

This unit of power, named for a Scottish engineer, equals one joule per second and shows up on every light bulb.

What is a watt?