WORLD HISTORY
MATH
GAMING & INTERNET
LITERATURE & LANGUAGE
ODDBALL FACTS
100

This Chinese dynasty built much of the Great Wall as we know it today.

The Ming

100

1 + 1 

2

100

This term describes a game update that fixes bugs without adding content.

A patch

100

Giving human traits to non-human things is called this.

Personification

100

This is the only letter that doesn't appear in any U.S. state name.

Q

200

This period of renewed art and learning in Europe began in Italy around the 1300s.

The Renaissance

200

This is the mean of 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42

18

200

This Swedish programmer created Minecraft.

Markus "Notch" Persson

200

In Greek mythology, opening this woman's box released all the evils into the world.

Pandora

200

This is the most common element in the human body by mass.

Oxygen

300

This German invented the printing press around 1440.

DAILY DOUBLE


Johannes Gutenberg

300

This Greek mathematician's theorem relates the three sides of a right triangle.

Pythagoras  

300

This is the term for a game's frame rate, measured in frames per second.

FPS

300

This Shakespeare play features a prince who sees his father's ghost and says "To be or not to be."

Hamlet

300

Wombats produce droppings in this unusual shape.

Cubes

400

This empire was ruled by Mansa Musa, possibly the richest person in history.

Mali

400

A number that reads the same forward and backward is called this.

palindrome

400

his 1972 game, one of the first commercially successful video games,based off of a table top sport. 

Pong

400

An exaggeration like "I've told you a million times" is this figure of speech.

Hyperbole

400

This country has the most time zones of any nation

France (12, counting overseas territories)

500

This 1919 treaty ended World War I and punished Germany harshly

The Treaty of Versailles

500

A shirt is marked $80. The store takes 25% off, then applies an additional 20% off the sale price at checkout. This is the final price.

48

500

this company developed Fortnite and the Unreal Engine.

Epic Games

500

his American poet wrote "The Road Not Taken," about choosing between two paths in a wood.

Robert Frost

500

This is the only food that astronauts were banned from bringing aboard early NASA missions because the crumbs could damage equipment.

Bread