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Where in the world?
100

The third planet from the sun.

What is Earth?

100

He thinks therefore he is.

Who is Descarte?

100

The start of the first world war is often attributed to the assassination of an Austrian Archduke by nationalists from this country.

What is Serbia?

100

The founder of computer science, he was instrumental in cracking the German Enigma cipher during the second world war.

Who is Alan Turing?

100

Murmansk, the world's nothermost city to host more than 100,000 inhabitants, can be found in this country.

What is Russia?

200

Meteorites contain an abundance of this element.

What is Iron?

200

In the Princess Bride, Vizzini refers to these three greek philsophers as morons.

Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
200

The fifth of November commemorates this event in English history.

What is the gunpowder plot?

200

The smallest unit of data, represented by a 1 or 0.

What is a bit?

200

This country, formerly known as Siam, is home to the largest solid gold statue in the world.

What is Thailand?

300

It takes light from the sun this long to reach Earth.

What is eight minutes?

300

A quote by this philosopher became the chorus for Kelly Clarkson's 2012 hit "Stronger".

Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?

300

In 1916, Irish rebels declared independence and occupied the Dublin post office on this holiday.

What is Easter Sunday?

300

This programming language gets its name from a British comedy troupe.

What is Python?

300

The largest landlocked country, and home to the character Borat.

What is Kazakhstan?

400

This is the largest planetary mountain in the solar system.

What is Olympus Mons, on mars.

400

One must imagine this mythological figure happy, in Albert Camus's work on the absurd.

Who is Sisyphus?

400

This civilization was a precursor to the ancient Greeks.

What is the Mycenaean Greeks?

400

This electrical component is the building block of computer logic.

What is the transistor?

400

The ruin of Petra, as seen in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, is found in this country.

What is Jordan?

500

Curious radio pulses, nicknamed LGM-1, for "little green men", turned out to be from this kind of super dense celestial body.

What is a pulsar?

500

The ancient greek philosopher Diogenes, known for being wild and contrarian, made his home in this object.

What is a barrel?

500

During the 16th century, this commonwealth stretched from modern day Estonia to Ukraine.

What is the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth?

500

Recognized as the author of the first computer program.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

500

If you wanted to visit the Galapagos Islands, you'd find yourself in this country.

What is Ecuador?