Just get to the "point" already!
Putting the "Madness" in "March"
Mesopotamia
Shakespeare's casts
'Nam
100

It's the point in the ocean farthest from nearby land, and it's also closer to space than land

What is Point Nemo?

100

In 2023, Princeton became the second ever team in this league to reach the Sweet Sixteen

What is Ivy?

100

These two main rivers gave the Fertile Crescent it's great soil and agriculture

What are the Tigris and Euphrates?

100

Montague, Capulet, Escalus, Paris

What is Romeo and Juliet?

100

They were the National Liberation Front, or the 'bad guys'

Who were the Vietcong?

200

You're at this range when you're very close to something, like a target

What is Point Blank?

200

The 2019 Tournament saw this this Loyola university make it to the Final Four as an 11-seed

What is Chicago?

200

Used by many of Mesopotamia's civilizations, it was one of (if not the) oldest writing systems

What is cuneiform?

200

Hermia, Demetrius, Lysander, Helena

What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?

200

Named for the Vietnamese word for New Year's, it was a series of attacks by the north after the New Year peace treaty

What was the Tet offensive?

300

It's the shortest position in Basketball

What is Point Guard?

300
In 2013, FGCU became the first one of these seeds to ever make the Sweet Sixteen, although another one would get a round further just 9 years later

What is a 15-seed?

300

They were conquered by the Babylonians in the fall Nineveh; they also invented the earliest form of Baklava

Who were the Assyrians?

300

Claudius, Fortinbras, Horatio, Polonius

What is Hamlet?

300

He started 'Vietnamization' to pull ground troops out and arm the Republic instead, which ended in the capture of Saigon

Who is Richard Nixon?

400

You're at this point when you're in too deep to come back

What is Point of No Return?

400

in 2023, every Final Four team was a 4-seed or lower, and this 5-seed would end up making the national championship (and losing) on a buzzer-beater against FAU

What is San Diego State Univ.?

400

The Punic Wars were names after them, and they were great sea travelers and traders

Who were the Phoenicians?

400

Duncan, Malcolm, Macduff, Lennox

What is Macbeth?

400

This decisive battle caused the French defeat in the Indochina War, as the Vietnamese bombed their base from the surrounding hillside

What was Dien Bien Phu?

500

It can be limited or omniscient

What is Point of View?

500

In 2022, this school's peacocks made it to the Elite Eight-as a 15-seed!

What is Saint Peter's?

500

He led the Akkadians to conquer the Sumerians in 2334 B.C.

Who was Sargon (The Great)?

500

Dukes of Cornwall, Burgundy, Albany; Earls of Kent and Gloucester

What is King Lear?

500

"Operation" this was a secret bombing campaign started by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the war, hoping to bomb the enemy into submission

What is Rolling Thunder?