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100

This building is the oldest on campus.

What is Edge Hall?

100

This is the only UN recognized country to have never competed in the Olympic Games. 

What is Vatican City?

100

Executed in 270AD, this Saint became famous for secretely marrying Chirstians.

Who is St. Valetine?

100

This escaped slave and abolitionist was born and died in Feburary.

Who is Frederick Douglass?

100

The name of the person who first discovered DNA's double-helix structure.

Who is Rosalind Franklin?

200

As president, he first reached out to Frank Lloyd Wright to design the campus.

Who is Ludd Spivey?

200

The Paralympic Games were founded to help rehabilitate veterans of this war.

What is World War II?

200

This ancient Pharoh's tomb was opened by Howard Carter in 1923.

Who is King Tut?

200

Jackie Robinson famously broke the color line in the MLB by starting as a first baseman for this team.

What is the Brooklyn Dodgers?

200

The Dada art movement began in response to this war.

What is World War I?

300

The full name of the individual the library is named after.

Who is Edwin Timanus Roux?
300

In Chamonix, France, the first Winter Olympics were held in this year.

What is 1924?

300

In 660 BCE, this east asian country was founded on Feburary 11.

What is Japan?

300

Proposed by students and educators at Kent State University, Black History Month was first celebrated in this year.

What is 1970?

300

Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, worked as a mathmatics professor at this university.

What is UC Berkley?

400

This Florida town in Alachua County is where FSC's earliest origins can be traced.

What is Micanopy?

400

One of these countries made their Winter Olympics debute at this year's games.

What are Benin, Guinea-Bissau, and the United Arab Emirates?

400

This number of US Presidents have birthdays in Feburary.

What is four (Washington, Lincoln, Harrison, and Reagan)?

400

Sworn into the Senate in 1870, he was the first black congressman.

Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?

400

This Russian composer wrote The Rite of Spring, the premier of which caused a riot.

Who is Igor Stravinsky?

500

This U.S. Senator is the namesake for a Center on campus.

Who is Lawton M. Chiles?

500

The names of two countries which have competed in every Olympics since the modern games began.

What are Australia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, France, Greece?

500

Groundhog Day was first celebrated in this year. 

What is 1887?

500

The founder of the first non-segregated hosptial in the US, he also performed the first successful open-heart surgery.

Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
500

Within the History of Animals, this philosopher argued that many creatures did not reproduce sexually but rather through spontaneous generation.

Who is Aristotle?