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Numbers That Make the World Go Round
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This iconic song alludes to development with a line that says "I see babies crying, I watch them grow. They'll learn much more than I'll ever know..."

What is "What a Wonderful World"

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In this song, Taylor declares, “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

What is “Blank Space”?

200

The longest serving President in the history of the CSD Program.

Who is Jeffrey Moore?

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206

What is the approximate number of bones in an adult human body?

200

In this HBO series, the phrase “Winter is coming” warns viewers that trouble is on the horizon.

What is Game of Thrones?

400

This 2006 John Mayer guitar ballad treats a fundamental physics force entirely as a negative emotional weight that is "working against me."

What is Gravity?

400

 This song became Taylor Swift's first career diamond-certified single, making her the first female artist in U.S. history to achieve both a diamond-certified album and a diamond-certified single.

What is "Shake It Off"?

400

Running right past the Anschutz Medical Campus, this steet is the longest continuous street in the United States, stretching about 26.5 miles through Denver metro.

What is Colfax Avenue?

400

8 minutes and 20 seconds

What is the time it takes sunlight to reach Earth?

400

This South Korean series became a global phenomenon as contestants competed in deadly versions of children's games for a cash prize.

What is Squid Game?

600

In this Kendrick Lamar hit from 2017, he uses a hereditary molecule as a metaphor for his intrinsic personal traits, claiming he has "loyalty" and "royalty" inside it.

What is DNA?

600

In 2010 This Album won Taylor Swift 4 Grammy Awards, which is the most she has won from any single album.

What is Fearless?

600

In 2006, Anschutz was officially named after this billionaire philanthropist whose massive donations transformed the former military base into the largest academic health center in the Rocky Mountain region.

Who is Philip Anschutz?

600

6.022 × 10²³ 

What is Avogadro’s number?

600

This is not a drug reference, but the name of the New York City Coffee Shop where the characters on "Friends" spent alot of their time.

What is Central Perk?

800

This 1994 hit by Counting Crows references a famous physicist "on the beach", using his name to comment on the unintended, heavy consequences of modern discovery.

What is "Einstein on the Beach"?

800

On November 2, 2009,Taylor Swift sat down with Jimmy Fallon and talked about working on her family's Christmas Tree Farm in Pennsylvania when she was 5. This was her job on that farm:

What is picking praying mantises off the trees?

800

In 1955, after this president suffered a massive heart attack, a room at the Fitzsimons Army Hospital became the "Oval Office" while he recovered.

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?

800

13.8 Billion

What is the approximate age of the Universe?

800

This was a popular term for the practice of seeing a 2023 blockbuster double feature, pairing a pink-drenched fantasy comedy with a historical drama about the atomic bomb. The term denoted the practice of seeing both movies in the same day.

What is a Barbenheimer?

1000

This 2011 hit by Sia compares a person's emotional resilience to a strong metallic element with the atomic number 22.

What is Titanium?

1000

In a 2015 GQ interview, Taylor Swift revealed that when was 14 she wrote an unpublished, non-autobiographical novel about a mother who wanted a son instead of a daughter. This was the name of the novel:

What is "A Girl Named Girl"

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In 1965, the University of Colorado co-founded the world’s first program for this advanced degree to combat rural doctor shortages.

What is nurse practitioner?

1000

This number, approximately 1.618, appears in mathematics and is associated with certain patterns in nature and art.

What is the golden ratio?

1000

In this Spanish dystopian thriller on Netflix, prisoners live on stacked levels of a vertical facility where a stage carrying food descends from floor to floor, exposing the brutal consequences of scarcity and inequality.

What is The Platform?