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100
This hurricane, which dissipated approximately a week ago, was the first to hit Alabama since Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
What is Hurricane Sally
100
This physical quantity is the product of the mass of a particle and its velocity.
What is momentum.
100
This volcano, the tallest in Africa, is located in Tanzania.
What is Mt. Kilimanjaro.
100
This name for the group of countries that lost the war dates to a 1936 German-Italian pact
What is Axis.
100
The rollout of air-filled tires for automobiles was by this French company in 1895.
What is Michelin.
200
These fast-flowing air currents, located in the stratosphere, are extremely important for aviation.
What are jet streams
200
These types of bits, used by quantum computers, are used to store (quantum-)information.
What are qubits.
200
The eruption of this volcano resulted in the burial of the nearby town of Pompeii in Italy.
What is Mt. Vesuvius.
200
The bloody battle in this historic Russian city led to German surrender in 1943.
What is Stalingrad (or Volgograd).
200
Hyundai's third best selling model in the US is named after this musical composition.
What is Sonata.
300
These types of sun rays appear when the sun is below the horizon during twilight hours.
What are crepuscular (or God) rays.
300
This theory of Einstein describes the effect of velocity on time, space, and mass.
What is special relativity
300
The eruption of this Indonesian volcano in 2018 resulted in a deadly tsunami that killed ~450 people.
What is (Anak-)Karakatoa.
300
The failure of this international coalition in preventing the outbreak of WWII led to the formation of the United Nations in 1945.
What is the League of Nations.
300
In 1913, this model from Ford became the first mass-produced car reducing assembly time from 12 hours to < 3 hours.
What is the Ford Model T.
400
These types of "motherly" clouds often forewarn severe thunderstorms.
What are mammatus clouds.
400
This physicist was the only person to be twice awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, separately for their work on superconductivity and the transistor.
Who is John Bardeen.
400
This volcano, located mostly underwater, is actually the tallest mountain on Earth when measured from base to summit.
What is Mauna Kea.
400
A WWI flying ace, he led Hitler's Luftwaffe (air force) in WWII.
Who is Hermann Goering
400
This major Swedish auto-manufacturer went bankrput in 2011.
What is Saab.
500
This scale is used to rate the severity and economic impact of cyclones.
What is the (enhanced-)Fujita scale (or the F-scale)?
500
This type of particle is theorized to be faster than light.
What is a tachyon.
500
This volcano, the tallest in the Solar System and located on Mars, is almost three times the size of Mt. Everest.
What is Olympus Mons.
500
This major British deception operation led to the Allied forces occupying Sicily in 1943.
What is Operation Mincemeat.
500
This Swedish supercar manufacturer recently produced the world's most powerful 3 cylinder engine.
What is Koenigsegg.