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100

Evaporation, Condensation, and Precipitation are all part of this process

What is the water Cycle?

100

This kingdom of organisms often breaking down dead things is actually distinct from plants despite similarities in look

What is Fungi?

100

The 16th president of the United States

Who is Abe Lincoln?

100
The year that America first landed a manned on the moon

What is 1969?

100

How did Netflix start its business originally?

What is a mail-based movie rental system?

100

Where does Google get its name?

From a googol which represents 10100 (Fun Fact: it was a misspelling)

100

Name 3 nearby non-numerical streets and the directions they run (E-W, N-S)

*Judges Discretion*

100

Where was the original Chinatown in Chicago?

Where is Downtown in the loop by Clark street?

200

Why is Red-Green colorblindness more common in males?

What is it is handed down on the X chromosome as a recessive allele 

200

Who is the only woman to earn two nobel Prizes?

Who is Marie Skłodowska–Curie?

200

What is November 11th internationally?

What is Armistice Day/Remembrance day for WW1

200

What is international workers' day and where does it get its name?

May 1st and May Day (Also the Haymarket Affair in Chicago)

200

This math term is often used to describe how media and companies identify how to advertise to its users

What is an algorithm?

200

This federal organization regulates interstate and international communications through cable, radio, television, satellite and wire 

What is the FCC?

200

This monument was a gift from China given to Chinatown in 2003 constructed by Polish construction company

What is the Nine-dragon wall?

200

What is under the UChicago football stadium?

What is the first artificial nuclear reactor?

300

This flower take 7-10 years (from seeding) to gain enough energy to enter its blooming cycle, and we have one at the Chicago Botanical gardens

What is a Corpse Flower?

300

This is the curve of quickest descent (mathematically)

What is the Brachistochrone Curve 

300

This invention led to the creation of the Microwave through an accidental observation of a melting chocolate bar

What is radar?

300

This person invented the first novel at this time in history

Murasaki Shikibu in 1000 A.D. wrote the Tale of Genji

300

What is sold on social media? (What is the platform's 'product'?/How do they make money?)

What is the users screentime?

300

This company was indirectly put out of business by Instagram, ironically after refusing to purchase it back in the day.

What is Kodak?

300

Approximately what is the distance of about 10 blocks

What is roughly 1 mile?

300

This is the year Chicago burned down

What is 1871? (Bonus: What was one of the buildings that survived because it was made of stone?)

400

This is the location of the tallest mountain in the solar system

What is Olympus Mons on Mars

400

This mathematical conception has infinite surface area and finite volume

What is Gabriel's Horn

400

Before the United Nations this was the organization that was attempting to form a worldwide, intergovermental, diplomatic group

What is the League of Nations?

400

This robber baron is an important part of the history of Chicago, his town/district was annexed into the city of Chicago after a rail strike investigation found him negligent in supporting his worker's freedoms

Who is George Pullman?

400

This game won game of the year 2022

What is Elden Ring? 
400

The title of the first video on Youtube

What is "Me at the Zoo"?
400
The White Sox have won the world series this many times

What is 3?

400

This individual pushed back on the Daley's expansion of UIC to what was Little Italy. Her involvement nearly saved the neighborhood.

Who is Florence Scala?

500

What is the Prime Factorization of 2520?

What is 7*5*4*3*3*2?

500

Approximately how old is the Red Spot (Storm) on Jupiter?

Roughly 340 years, it was observed in ~1680
500

This famous vice president murdered a founding father that would later end up on the 10 dollar bill in a duel in 1804.

Who is Aaron Burr?

500

This is the native location of potatoes in the world.

Where is the South American Andes mountains?
500

This is the very first video game invented and its control method

What is Pong and a turn dial?

500

This many hours of video are uploaded to Youtube every day

What is 720,000 hours?

500

This is the colloquial/traditional name for U.S. Cellular Field

What is Comiskey Park?

500

During its construction, the Sears tower had multiple lawsuits because of this concern/problem

What is interfering with TV signal? (Bonus: What ranks is the Sears tower in tallest buildings)