The Cold War
Cold Blooded
The Common Cold
Cold Hard Cash
A Cold day in Hell
200

This was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals to achieve superior spaceflight capability.

What is the Space Race?

200

Cold Blooded is the 7th studio album by this American singer-songwriter and musician, though he may be better known for appearing and being parodied on Chappelle's Show.

Who is Rick James?

200

Unlike the other twelve vitamins, this one is only conditionally essential - in a preindustrial society people had adequate exposure to sunlight.

What is Vitamin D?

200

Polymer banknotes made from a synthetic polymer were first issued as currency in this country during 1988.  Though this country is probably more know for it's accent and terrifying creatures that are strangely commonplace.

What is Australia?

200

The Genie is Disney's Aladdin has three rules.  Two are possible without wishes, but this one is most certainly, and thankfully, impossible.

What is Bringing someone back from the dead?

400

This is a form of moral panic provoked by fear of the rise, supposed or real, of left-wing ideologies in a society, especially communism and socialism.

What is a Red Scare?

400

Like other insects, these are cold blooded individually.  However, and entire colony of them are considered warmblooded.

What is a Honey Bee?

400

Getting plenty of rest, drinking fluids to maintain hydration, and gargling with warm salt water are reasonable conservative measures for symptomatic treatment, however, much of the benefit is attributed to the this, a treatment designed to have no therapeutic value.

What is the Placebo Effect?

400

This guy is on the United States fifty dollar bill.

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

400

Vampires, The Highlander, Skips and plenty of Villains across all media either have, or try to achieve this, even though it seems like it would be an awful curse in reality.

What is Immortality?

600

In his 1945 essay "You and the Atomic Bomb", this English writer used the words "cold war" as a general term contemplating a world living in the shadow of the threat of nuclear warfare.

Who is George Orwell?

600

A group of rattlesnakes is called this, like the genre of ballroom music, though it does sound a bit like the robot that cleans floors.

What is a Rhumba?

600

When someone sneezes in Spanish speaking countries this Spanish word is commonly said in response and means "To your health" or "God bless you" and directly translates to "Health".

What is Salud?

600

Bottle caps are used as currency in this popular video game series, and now television series, set in a post apocalyptic wasteland influenced by the post-war culture of the 1950's United States.

What Is Fallout?

600

The first story of this impossible concept is about a guardian angel that does this and carries letters from the year 1997 and 1998.

What is Time Travel?

800

Stories categorized using this term, involved secrecy, espionage, and mystery and were popular during the cold war.  The term comes from a fighting style that was common during the renaissance period.

What is Cloak and Dagger?

800

According to leading experts, this species possess the “physical and mental attributes necessary” to evolve into the next civilization-building species.

What are octopuses?

800

The brain stem and cerebellum are the most ancient part of the human brain and are frequently referred to as this class of animals.

What are Reptiles? Or what is Reptile Brain?

800

This symbol is used for Japanese Yen.  (Describe as best you can.)

What is (¥)?

800

Building a machine that does this is impossible and known as the "Holy Grail of Engineering".  When I was a kid I thought I figured it out, but it turns out that a medieval mathematician named Bhaskara in the 12th century already tried what I had come up with.

What is Perpetual Motion?

1000

Also known as the Second Red Scare, this was the political repression and persecution of left-wing individuals and a campaign spreading fear of communist and Soviet influence on American institutions and of Soviet espionage in the United States during the late 1940s through the 1950s.

What is McCarthyism?

1000

The evolutionary history of these creatures goes back 435 million years, though honestly, I wish they never existed. They are scary.  I'd rather listen to the German rock band of the same name.

What are Scorpions?

1000

Polymastia or polythelia are terms used to denote an excess of these on the human body.

What are Nipples? (or something similar)

1000

These notes, issued at a time when money was redeemable in gold or silver, were backed only by the credit of the United States Government and carried these colored distinguishing markings.

What is a "Red Seal Note"? or "Red Note"? or "Red Numbered Note"? or "Red Treasury Note"? or "Red Serial Number Note"? or honestly I will probably accept anything even close to these answers I am sorry this is such a hard category?

1000

The theory of relativity usually encompasses these two interrelated physics theories by Albert Einstein.

What are special relativity and general relativity?