Difficult

Philosophical Concepts

100

This thought experiment proposes a scenario where a person is deceived into believing they are living a real life, when in fact they are connected to a machine.

Brain in a vat

200

This branch of philosophy deals with the nature of knowledge and how we acquire it.

Epistemology

300

This philosophical concept, associated with Jean-Paul Sartre,  suggests that humans are free and responsible for their own actions.

Existentialism

400

This ethical theory, championed by Immanuel Kant, emphasizes universal moral rules and duties.

Deontology

500

This paradox, argues that motion is impossible because an object must first travel half the distance to its destination, then half of the remaining distance, and so on.

Zeno's paradox

Art History

100

This Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper.

Leonardo da Vinci

200

This Dutch painter is known for his vibrant use of color and bold brushwork in works like "Sunflowers" and "The Starry Night."

Vincent van Gogh

300

This art movement, which emerged in the early 20th century, rejected traditional aesthetics and embraced new technologies and industrial materials.

Cubism (or Futurism, Constructivism)

400

This Spanish surrealist painter is known for his bizarre and dreamlike imagery in works like "The Persistence of Memory."

Salvador Dalí

500

This contemporary art form involves the creation of temporary or site-specific works that often interact with the environment.

Installation art (or Land art, Performance art)

Literary Devices

100

This figure of speech uses "like" or "as" to compare two unlike things.

Simile

200

This literary device gives human qualities to inanimate objects or abstract concepts.

Personification

300

This narrative technique involves interrupting the chronological order of events to present something that happened earlier.

Flashback

400

This literary device uses contradictory terms together for effect, such as "jumbo shrimp" or "living dead."

Oxymoron

500

This form of irony occurs when the audience or reader knows something that the characters do not.

Dramatic irony

World Geography

100

This mountain range is the highest in the world.

Himalayas

200

This is the smallest country in the world at 0.17 square miles.

Vatican City

300

The longest river in europe

Volga

400

This island nation is the largest in the world by land area. (NOT AUSTRALIA)

Greenland

500

This strait separates Europe from Africa.

Strait of Gibraltar