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100

This eccentric third-grade teacher takes her class on magical, educational field trips in the 1994 PBS cartoon The Magic School Bus.

Who is Ms. Frizzle?

100

This alumnus is known for being the star of a successful science education PBS program.

Who is Bill Nye?

100

This founder of psychoanalysis is famous for many of his theories, including the clinical application of dream analysis.

Who is Sigmund Freud?

100

Meryl Streep plays a hardworking, ex-singer mother in the movie adaptation of this 1998 musical.

What is Mamma Mia?

100

This group of nations was also known as the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.

What are the Axis Powers?

200

This mean-spirited babysitter made the life of Timmy Turner harder in the Nickelodeon cartoon The Fairly Oddparents.

Who is Vicky?

200

This U.S. Supreme Court Justice since 1993 also got her Bachelor's degree here before moving on to Columbia Law School.

Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

200

This 2-letter acronym is one of the most commonly used standard measures of intelligence.

What is an IQ?

200

This musical is better known for being the longest-running show in Broadway history than for being the adaptation of of a 1909 novel by French writer Gaston Leroux.

What is the The Phantom of the Opera?

200

While one of four countries to do so, this is perhaps the most famous to have switched sides during the war.

What is Italy?

300

This David Glen Eisley song was featured in a famous episode of Spongebob Squarepants and dominated the headlines for the 2019 Superbowl.

What is "Sweet Victory"?

300

This comedian, television host, and class of '78 alum is known for his sarcastic political commentary and his frequent arguments on social media.

Who is Bill Maher?

300

In Stanley Milgram's famous "experiment on obedience to authority figures" conducted at Yale University, participants believed they were administering these to researchers when the researchers failed to answer a question correctly.

What are electric shocks?

300

This American musical tells the story of the Jets and Sharks rather than the Montagues and Capulets.

What is West Side Story?

300

One of the founding purposes of this organization was to prevent another conflict like World War II from ever happening again.

What is the United Nations?

400

This name of this iconic Sesame Street character has also been used to describe a popular ice cream flavor with blue food coloring.

Who is Cookie Monster?

400

This actor and class of '74 alumnus is known for playing DC's Superman and for an accident involving a horse which left him a quadriplegic. 

Who is Christopher Reeve?

400

This type of memory is formed a few seconds after observing something and tends to fade in less than a minute.

What is working memory?

400

The titular character of Les Misérables is known by this 5-digit number during his time in jail and by police inspector Javert afterwards.

What is 24601?

400

This country by a margin of 16 million lost the most lives during the course of the war.

What is the Soviet Union?

500

In an iconic episode of Spongebob Squarepants, Spongebob and Squidward brave the elements to deliver a pizza to a customer, realizing only upon arriving that they had forgotten this part of the order.

What is a drink?

500

This classic American author and class of 1921 wrote the well-received children's books Stuart Little and Charlotte's Web.

Who is E.B. White?

500

It is the psychological debate over whether genetic influence or environmental influence is more important to an individual's psychological characteristics.

What is the nature versus nurture debate?

500

The king of this country spoke the final words in Shakespeare's Hamlet: "Go, bid the soldiers shoot."

What is Norway?

500

Operation Overlord referred to the amphibious invasion of this coastal region.

What is Normandy?