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Dr. Little's Favorite Things
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This country launched an IBM over the Aomori Prefecture of northern Japan on 4 October 2022, sounding alarms for the first time since 2017.
North Korea
100
Before the Constitution we know today was created, the Continental Congress decided to adopt this document on November 15, 1777, which didn't go into effect until Maryland ratified it on March 1, 1781.
Articles of Confederation
100
This creepy and kooky family will be returning to the screen on November 23, 2022, in a new Netflix original series starring the youngest daughter who shares a name with a day of the week
The Addams Family
100
UGA was founded in this year, which is also the name of a bar in downtown Athens
1785
100
Commonly used to describe Chinese martial arts, this term can be applied to any acquired skill achieved through time and work.
Kung fu/Gong fu
200
On 6 October 2022, President Biden pardoned thousands convicted under federal law of "simple possession" of this substance.
marijuana
200
This figure was the second president of the United States, ensuring the precedent for a peaceful transition of power in a new democracy.
John Adams
200
In 1998 Debbie Reynolds starred alongside Kimberly J. Brown in this Disney Channel Original Movie in which they travel to a magical realm home to a variety of supernatural creatures
Halloweentown
200
This classic UGA symbol and notable campus landmark was originally the gateway of an iron fence meant to secure campus from roaming cattle wreaking havoc on the grass
The Arch
200
This padawan of Anakin Skywalker wields dual white lightsabers representing her neutral harmony with the Force.
Ahsoka Tano
300
This city, founded by four East Slavic siblings in 482CE, suffered a Russian missile strike on 10 October 2022.
Kyiv, Ukraine
300
President Woodrow Wilson was a principal architect of this predecessor to the United Nations coming out of the Treaty of Versailles at the end of WWI despite the U.S. senate failing to ratify the treaty.
League of Nations
300
If there's an invisible man sleeping in your bed, you're gonna want to call this team of scientists portrayed in a 1984 film by Harold Ramis, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Bill Murray
Ghostbusters
300
This former American Idol host attended UGA in Fall 1992, dropping out after just one semester to pursue a broadcasting career in Hollywood.
Ryan Seacrest
300
This popular tabletop game central to the plot of Stranger Things drew its original source material in 1974 from two magazines that together comprise the game's name.
Dungeons and Dragons
400
The United Nations chose not to re-elect this country to a seat on the Human Rights Council for the 2022-2024 term on 11 October 2022, having been accused in recent years of crimes against humanity.
Venezuela
400
This figure was the first president to appear on TV.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
400
This 1988 film directed by Tim Burton had a musical adaptation that premiered on Broadway in April 25, 2019, before reopening this year on April 8 featuring songs such as "Dead Mom" and "Say My Name" (But don't say it three times!)
Beetlejuice
400
This Republican nominee for the 2022 Georgia Senate election was also a 1982 Heisman trophy winner and former UGA football running back.
Herschel Walker
400
A copy of da Vinci's Mona Lisa, presumably painted by one of his students, is housed in this European art museum.
Prado
500
Quadloop, a company out of this African country, found a way in 2022 to convert electronic waste into solar lanterns and other eco-conscious content.
Nigeria
500
The seven spikes on the Statue of Liberty's crown represent this feature.
The seven seas and seven continents of the world
500
This famous composer, singer, and songwriter has composed over 100 feature film scores, including the score for The Nightmare Before Christmas for which he also provided the singing voice for Jack Skellington.
Danny Elfman
500
This is the number of people in a full capacity Sanford Stadium
92,746
500
In this 2019 role-playing game by Estonian novelist Robert Kurvitz, you play as a detective trying to solve a crime and your internal conflicts through a series of complex decision trees and world-building in the fictional environment of Elysium.
Disco Elysium