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100

This director made Citizen Kane.
 

Who is Orson Welles?

100

This composer became deaf yet wrote his Ninth Symphony afterward.
 

Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?

100

This economist wrote The Wealth of Nations.
 

Who is Adam Smith?

100

This programming language was created by Guido van Rossum.
 

What is Python?

100

This philosopher wrote The Republic.
 

Who is Plato?

200

Parasite became the first non-English film to win this Oscar.
 

What is Best Picture?

200

The album Kind of Blue was recorded by this jazz musician.
 

Who is Miles Davis?

200

Inflation is typically measured using this index in the U.S.
 

What is the Consumer Price Index?

200

Moore’s Law predicts the doubling of this roughly every two years.
 

What is the number of transistors on a chip?

200

“I think, therefore I am” was said by this philosopher.
 

Who is René Descartes?

300

This 1974 film features the Corleone family.
 

What is The Godfather Part II?

300

This musical term means “gradually getting louder.”
 

What is crescendo?

300

This political system features centralized control and no private property.
 

What is communism?

300

This protocol is used to securely browse the web.
 

What is HTTPS?

300

This ethical theory focuses on the greatest good for the greatest number.
 

What is utilitarianism?

400

The fictional country of Wakanda appears in films from this franchise.
 

What is the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

400

This band released the album Dark Side of the Moon.
 

Who is Pink Floyd?

400

The U.S. Constitution has been amended this many times.
 

What is 27?

400

The first mechanical computer was designed by this person.
 

Who is Charles Babbage?

400

Existentialism is often associated with this French philosopher.
 

Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?

500

This actress starred in Black Swan and V for Vendetta.
 

Who is Natalie Portman?

500

A song’s written music is called this, while the performance is the recording.
 

What is a composition?

500

This branch of government interprets laws.
 

What is the judicial branch?

500

This term describes malicious software that demands payment.
 

What is ransomware?

500

In art, this movement emphasized emotion and individualism over reason.
 

What is Romanticism?