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100

This artist painted The Starry Night and Wheatfield with Crows

Vincent van Gogh

100

This man is the president of Ukraine. 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

100

This Norse god is also called Wōden, and Wednesday is named after him. 

Odin

100

This is the name for a line that a curve always approaches but never reaches. 

Asymptote

100

This wizard in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit sometimes puts on firework shows. He is the most powerful member of The Fellowship of the Ring. 

Gandalf

200

This famous composer gradually went deaf, but that did not stop him from composing the Missa solemnis from 1819 to 1823. 

Beethoven 

200

This country is expected to overtake China in population in 2023.

India

200

This person was sentenced to roll a rock up a hill, and every time it would approach the top, it would roll back down again for all eternity. He lends his name to a word meaning laborious, difficult, and futile.

Sisyphus

200

While Leonhard Euler was pondering the crossing of the seven bridges in this city, he invented primitive forms of graph theory and topology. 

Königsberg, now called Kaliningrad 

200

This is the temperature at which book paper burns, according to the popular book by Ray Bradbury. 

451 degrees Fahrenheit

300

This famous group of violin concertos by Vivaldi is called Le quattro stagioni in Italian. 

The Four Seasons

300

A few days ago, this most powerful launch vehicle ever built was launched in Texas and exploded minutes later. 

SpaceX Starship

300

This ancient Sumerian king that might have been a real person is said to have fought and befriended Enkidu. 

Gilgamesh

300

An infinite series is divergent if its value is infinite. If its value is finite, it is what?

Convergent. 
300

In this book, the title character refuses to go to India with a priest. Later, she returns to Mr. Rochester, who had become blind in a fire caused by his mentally insane wife. 

Jane Eyre

400

This incredibly famous painting was once hid under the coat of Vincenzo Peruggia. It also once hung in Napoleon's bedroom. 

The Mona Lisa

400

In the ongoing armed conflict in Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan are fighting primarily against this paramilitary group. 

The Rapid Support Forces

400

This Hindu text is considered the longest epic poem ever. It is said to have been written by Vyasa. 

The Mahabharata

400

The classic "ladder sliding down a wall" in differential calculus problem is this type of problem. This type of problem is often solved using implicit differentiation. 

Related rates

400

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the protagonist is tortured by being forced to listen to poetry made by this alien species, which is said to produce the third worst poetry in the galaxy. 

The Vogons

500

Donatello was commissioned to create this bronze relief sculpture around 1427. It is notable for its excellent use of perspective. It depicts an executioner with John the Baptist's head. 

The Feast of Herod

500

The US Senate currently contains this many Republicans. 

49
500

At the beginning of the Iliad, this king of Mycenae commands the armies that are besieging Troy.

Agamemnon

500

If the number of Mersenne Primes is infinite, then the number of even instances of these is also infinite. Currently, it is unknown whether there is a single odd instance of these. 

Perfect numbers

500

In this book, the protagonist encounters a turtle on his way home from McAlester prison. On their way west, both grandparents of the protagonist's family die. Near the end of this book, a former priest is killed for leading a strike. 

The Grapes of Wrath