worldly knowledge
ivory tower knowledge
gossip girl
cambridge...london
who said it?
100

The Hundred Years' War, fought between 1337 and 1453, actually lasted this many years.

116

100

In The Great Gatsby, the green light Gatsby watches across the bay burns at the end of this woman's dock.

Daisy Buchanan

100

this taylor swift song was "dusmashed" with goats

i knew you were trouble

100

Barred from keeping a dog in his rooms at Trinity, Lord Byron reportedly kept this animal instead.

bear

100

"one is not born, but rather, becomes a woman"

SdB

200

what technology company is named after the latin word for "envy"

Nvidia

200

putting a little sodium into a bunsen burner flame will turn the flame this colour 

yellow

200

how many kids does brangelina have

6

200

A crew that bumps up on every day of the May Bumps wins these

blades

200

"I think I am, actually humble. I think I'm much more humble than you would understand."

donald trump

300

Andorra has two co-princes as heads of state: the Bishop of Urgell and this office holder in a neighbouring country.

president of france

300

what was max weber's thesis about government

monopoly of violence

300

what russian tiktok song inspired a meme about aloof masculinity

sigma boy

300

Until 1909, whoever ranked last among honours students in this Cambridge exam was given an oversized wooden spoon.

mathematical tripos

300

“I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.”

kanye west

400

who was the last tsar of russia?

nicolas II

400

Two letters of the alphabet appear in no element symbol on the periodic table. J is one.

Q

400

In 2015 the internet split over a photo of a dress. What were the two sets of colours?

Gold and white, or blue and black.

400

who discovered the cause of cholera was a water pump near a london pub?

jon snow

400

"Let them eat cake" is pinned on Marie Antoinette, but it first appears in the Confessions of this philosopher, who credits "a great princess."

rousseau

500

The word "gerrymander" joins Governor Elbridge Gerry's name with this animal, which a Massachusetts district drawn in 1812 supposedly resembled.

salamnder
500

when was the communist manifesto published?

1848

500

what's rihanna's real name

robyn fenty

500

he Beatles' last public performance, in January 1969, took place on the roof of Apple's headquarters on this London street. 

Savile Row

500

"look at the state of ya"

clare to erin in derry girls