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This first treasury secretary was this Federalist leader who was later killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.

Alexander Hamilton

100

Name this form of radiation used in medicine to image bones.

X-rays (or X-radiation)

100

Name this character who shrinks after finding a bottle with the label “DRINK ME.”

Alice (in Wonderland)

100

Apple recently launched this new product, taking the form of foldable iPhones, under what name?

iPhone Duo

100

"Rap God" and "The Real Slim Shady" are by, what Detroit-raised rapper whose real name is Marshall Mathers?

Eminem

200

Among the Meiji-era zaibatsu was this company that made Japan’s Zero fighter planes. This company still exists, primarily making cars, electronics, and heavy machinery.

Mitsubishi

200

Name this genetic molecule shaped like a double helix.

DNA

200

The members of Odysseus’s crew were turned into swine by what sorceress?

Circe

200

With this policy, Africa and other regions' relative size will be truer to life. The U.S. was the only nation to vote against encouraging greater use of equal-area projections such as Equal Earth.

UN's 'Correct the Map'

200

Katniss is the older sister of this girl, who is saved from having to go to the Hunger Games after Katniss takes her place.

Primrose Everdeen

300

Give this term that means abstaining from alcohol. This word was often used interchangeably with the “Prohibition” movement.

Temperence, or the Women's Christian Temperence Union (WCTU)
300

The Hubble is what type of observation device in space?

Telescope

300

Name this Russian author of The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

300

This song was written by recently deceased artist, Dolly Parton. It was the theme song of it's namesake 1980 film on gender inequality in the workforce.

9 to 5
300

This 2020 Glass Animals song reminisces about “late nights in the middle of June,” saying that
the title events have been “faking me out.”

Heat Waves

400

Hunting and gathering societies generally transformed into practicing what sedentary raising of crops?

Agriculture

400

There are no higher-exponent analogues to the Pythagorean theorem according to this French mathematician’s “last theorem.”

Pierre de Fermat

400

Maya Angelou wrote about her upbringing in rural Arkansas in this 1969 autobiography, whose title mentions a trapped animal.

I know why the Caged Bird Sings

400

Renowned British actor Tim Cook is perhaps best known for his role in The Rocky Horror Picture Show as who?

Dr. Frank-N-Furter

400

Quay Walker went to this SEC school, whose football team, the Bulldogs, won the 2021 and 2022 national championships.

University of Georgia

500

The poet José Martí advocated for this island’s independence from Spain. Name this island where Fulgencio Batista was overthrown in a 1959 revolution

Cuba

500

Rotifers are microscopic animals that have a “wheel” of these structures in their mouth. Paramecium swim using the back and forth motion of these structures.

Cillium/Cillia

500

This woman is married to a doctor and aspiring alchemist named Roger Chillingworth; name this literary character who has a daughter named Pearl.

Hester Prynne

500

OpenAI claims to have 'solved' this million-dollar problem pertaining to fluid dynamics.

The Navier-Stokes Equations
500

The host of this children’s TV show from the 90’s is known for his powder blue lab coat and signature bow-tie. His show featured segments such as “Consider the Following” and the “Pet Rock Theater.”

Bill Nye the Science Guy