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100

The second-lightest of the halogens with atomic number 17.

What is chlorine?
100

This intelligent 11-year-old boy lives in Retroville with his parents, Judy and Hugh, and his robot dog, Goddard. His friends are Carl Wheezer and Sheen, and he has a long-standing rivalry with his classmate, Cindy Vortex.

Who is Jimmy Neutron?

100

The famous American Saxophonist who composed "Giant Steps."

Who is John Coltrane?

100

According to science and tradition, this condiment is the ideal pairing to roasted lamb.

What is Mint Jelly?

100

This man starred as Vincent Van Gogh in the movie "At Eternity's Gate." He is also the green goblin.

Who is Willem Dafoe?

200

This term is used to mean that any real-world general-purpose computer or computer language can approximately simulate the computational aspects of any other real-world general-purpose computer or computer language.

What is "Turing-Completeness?"

200

"He is simply the finest officer with whom I have ever served."

– Jean-Luc Picard

Who is William T. Riker?

200

The twenty-eighth album released by the American jazz musician, trumpeter, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis.

What is Kind of Blue?

200

This is a chemical compound possessing both hydrophilic (water-loving, polar) and lipophilic (fat-loving) properties

What is an amphiphile?

200

Chiaroscuro was practiced long before he came on the scene, but it was this Italian painter who made the technique a dominant stylistic element, darkening the shadows and transfixing the subject in a blinding shaft of light.

Who is Caravaggio? 

300

This digital circuit is able to perform the operation of addition on binary numbers, but it does not have an extra input that account 'carried' values.

What is a half adder?

300

He is a Decapodian, a crustacean-like species of alien, who works as the staff doctor for Planet Express, despite his woeful understanding of human physiology and allusions to his questionable credentials.

Who is Dr. Zoidberg?

300

This man was the bassist of the band 'Queen.'

Who is John Deacon?

300

This chemical product used for dying food is a sodium or calcium salt of 4-(α-(4-diethylaminophenyl)-5-hydroxy- 2,4-disulfophenylmethylidene)-2,5-cyclohexadien-1-ylidene diethylammonium hydroxide inner salt.

What is Blue 5?

300
This is a style of architecture or art characterized by a deliberate plainness, crudity, or violence of imagery. The term was first applied to functionalist buildings of the 1950s and 1960s that made much use of steel and concrete in starkly massive blocks.


What is Brutalism?

400

This mathematical object from the field of differential geometry is often written in the form of a 2x2 matrix. It permits the calculation of curvature and metric properties of a surface such as length and area in a manner consistent with the ambient space.

What is the first fundamental form?

Also accepted: What is the metric tensor

400

After spending nearly a year in the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, this famous actor, on condition of posting a $5,000 bail, was unexpectedly freed when a judge ruled that his collective time in incarceration facilities (from the initial 1996 arrests) had qualified him for early release.

Who is Robert Downey Jr.

400

She began professional songwriting at 14. She signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 and achieved prominence as a country pop singer.

Who is Taylor Swift?

400

These fruits are red because of a chemical compound called lycopene.

What are tomatoes?

400

This is an ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout Europe and the United States. It is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic lines and was employed most often in architecture, interior design, jewelry and glass design, posters, and illustration.

What is Art Nouveau?

500

In mathematics, this function, (named after Leopold Kronecker) is a function of two variables, usually just non-negative integers. The function is 1 if the variables are equal, and 0 otherwise.

What is the Kronecker delta function?

500

She was a civilian adviser to the United States Colonial Marine Corps and a hugely influential figure in humanity's encounters with the alien species Xenomorph XX121.

Who is Ellen Ripley?

500

This man developed the most influential version of the dodecaphonic (also known as twelve-tone) method of composition, which in French and English was given the alternative name serialism. It involves playing all 12 notes of the chromatic scale without ascribing any specific function to any of the notes, thus transcending all notions of key-signature.

Who is Arnold Schoenberg?

500

These stabilize mixtures of oil and water in food.

What are emulsifiers?

500

Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

What is 42?