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100

The Greek epic poet who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey

Homer

100

This landlocked country has the most neighbors

China

100

This empire controlled much of the Middle East and Eastern Europe until World War I

Ottoman Empire

100

How many chromosomes do humans have

23

100

This 2010 Christopher Nolan film features dreams within dreams and a spinning top as its ambiguous ending symbo

Inception

200

This Russian novelist explored existential themes in works like Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

200

The Nile River flows into this sea

Mediterranean Sea

200

This empire built Machu Picchu high in the Andes Mountains

The Inca Empire

200

This mysterious form of matter makes up about 27% of the universe, does not emit or absorb light, and reveals its presence only through gravitational effects on visible matter

dark matter

200

In 2018, Jennie appeared alongside an actor  in a Sprite commercial for Coca-Cola Korea.

Woo Do-Hwan

300

The term for a word formed from the first letters of other words (like NASA).

acronym

300

This U.S. state has the longest coastline

Alaska

300

She was the longest-reigning British monarch before Elizabeth II.

Queen Victoria

300

Schrödinger is famous for a thought experiment involving this animal

Cat

300

Name 4 people penny dated during Big Bang Theory

Leonard, Stuart, Kurt, Zack, Dr David

400

George Orwell wrote this dystopian novel about totalitarianism in 1949

1984

400

This African country was never colonized by a European power

Ethiopia

400

The Opium Wars in the 19th century were fought between China and this country

The British Empire

400

The heaviest naturally occurring element on Earth

Uranium

400

Who is the hero Link trying to save

Princess Zelda

500

What word means finding something good by chance, almost like a happy accident 

serendipity

500

Mount Kilimanjaro is located in the country

Tanzania

500

This ancient city in Mesopotamia is considered the world’s first true city

Urus

500

This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction

Newtons Third Law

500

This Japanese director is considered the master of animated films, behind Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke

Hayao Miyazaki