Vietnam Protest Song
Best Picture
Electromagnetism
Baseball Stats
History of Alaska
400

1969 song by Creedence Clearwater Revival commenting on the unfair application of the draft between the rich and the poor.

"Fortunate Son"

400

2017 Guillermo Del Toro film about a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature.

The Shape of Water

400

Electricity and Magnetism were originally considered to be two separate forces until this man's 1873 paper demonstrated they were one.

James Clerk Maxwell

400

Number of runners who score due to a batter's action, except when the batter grounded into a double play or reached on an error.

RBI (Runs Batted In)

400

From 1917 to 2015, the U.S. government called this mountain "Mount McKinley," even though the Koyukon people have been calling it this name for centuries.

Denali

800

1969 number-one hit sung by Edwin Starr that denounces the concept of war in its entirety.

"War (What is it Good For?)"

800

1994 Robert Zemeckis film about a slow-witted but kind-hearted man who witnesses and unwittingly influences several defining historical events in the 20th century United States.

Forrest Gump

800

DAILY DOUBLE

This Frenchman created a single mathematical form to represent magnetic forces between current-carrying conductors, and is honored by the unit of current.

800

Number of bases advanced by the runner while the ball is in the possession of the defense.

SB (Stolen Bases)

800

The United States purchased Alaska from the Russian Empire in 1867, which political opponents of this Secretary of State named his "folly" or "icebox."

William Seward

1200

1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young song about the shooting of 4 protesters in the titular state.

"Ohio"

1200

2003 Peter Jackson film, and the third installment of a franchise, tied for most academy awards won by a single film.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

1200

The force between two electric charges decreases at a rate proportional to this function of distance.

Inverse square

1200

Total number of runs that did not occur as a result of errors or passed balls, multiplied by 9, divided by innings pitched.

Earned Run Average (ERA)

1200

In 1741, this Russian explorer visited Alaska and returned with otter pelts judged the finest in the world, and left his name on a body of water there.

Vitus Bering

1600

1966 Buffalo Springfield song about counterculture protests on the Sunset Strip in LA that later was applied to the war.

"For What It's Worth"

1600

DAILY DOUBLE

1986 Oliver Stone film starring Tom Berenger, Willem Defoe, and Charlie Sheen, based upon Stone's experiences in the Vietnam War.

1600

This specific physical constant is a measure of the polarizability of a classical vacuum, and is often expressed with a lowercase epsilon.

Permittivity of Free Space

1600

Total bases achieved on hits divided by at-bats.

Slugging Average (SLG)

1600

James Cook, in his expeditions in the Pacific, travelled up the now named Cook Inlet hoping to find this long sought route that Europeans had been looking for from the other side of the continent for over 200 years.

Northwest Passage

2000

1970 Guess Who song with debated meaning, but possibly about the female army recruiters who tried to draft the Canadian band members.

"American Woman"

2000

1975 Milos Forman film about a mental institution, and the second in history to win all five major Academy Award categories.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

2000

This SI unit of electric conductance, written with symbol "S," is named after this German electrical engineer, inventor, and industrialist, and founder of a telecommunications conglomerate that still bears his name.

Siemens

2000

9*(putouts + assists)/innings played. Used to determine the amount of field that the player can cover.

Range Factor (RF)

2000

The northernmost city of Alaska and therefore the entire U.S., Utqiagvik, had a record temperature high of 79 degrees and is closest to this national capital that is not Washington, D.C.

Ottowa