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100

This country was originally a penal colony.

What is Australia?

100

Playwright who said "To be or not to be - that is the question." (Bonus for if you can name which play it is from).

Who was Shakespeare? (Hamlet Act 1, Scene 3)

100

"I feel the need, the _____ _____ _____"

What is "the need for speed"?
Top Gun

100

Citrus with a very high acid content, and the province of Canada which has Toronto as its capital.

What is "Lemontario"?

100
This movie filmed the JHU Homewood campus as a stand-in for Harvard.

What is The Social Network?

200

Finish the lyrics: "darling hold my hand..."

What is "Nothing beats a jet2 holiday...."

200

Hero in greek mythology was known for his wings being made of wax and flying too close from the sun.

Who is Icarus?

200

"Not all those who wander ______ ______"

What is "are lost"?
JRR Tolkien (author of LOTR)

200

Pop singer that sang Poker Face and the American word for 'rubbish.'

What is "Lady Gagarbage"?

200

This JHU building on Homewood campus used to be a mental asylum.

What is Wyman Park Building?

300

In this European country, it's illegal to own just one guinea pig.

What is Switzerland?

300

In Cardi B’s 2020 hit song “WAP” feat. Megan Thee Stallion, she rhymes these two words with “seven days a week”.

What is Certified freak?

300

"Get in, loser. We're ______ ______"

What is "going shopping"?
Mean Girls

300

A useful weather protecting item famously sung about by Rhianna and a 2016 award winning musical.

What is "Umbrella la land"?

300

The reason why there is an "s" after "John" in Johns Hopkins.

What is Johns Hopkins' given name was the maiden name of his great-grandmother, Margaret Johns?

400

The national animal of this European country is a unicorn.

What is Scotland?

400

Which classic book by J. M. Barrie opens with the line “All children, except one grew up”?

What is Peter Pan?

400

"I am become Death, the _______ _______ ________."

What is "the destroyer of worlds."
Oppenheimer

400

The second Star Wars film to be released in 1980, and the film that features Marty, Doc and a Delorean.

What is "The Empire Strikes Back To The Future"?

400

These Homewood campus buildings are named after former JHU Presidents.

What are Ames, Brody, Gilman, Remsen, and (MSE optional)?

500

This soft drink once contained cocaine as one of its original ingredients.

What is Coca-Cola?

500

The fictional place of learning with the official motto: "Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus," translated as "Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon."

What is Hogwarts?

500

"You're gonna need a _______ ________"

What is a "bigger boat"?
Jaws

500

Main actor in the 2015 film 'The Martian' and the name of Ross's sister in the Sitcom 'Friends'.

What is "Matt Damonica Geller"?

500

The Johns Hopkins University motto.

What is Veritas vos liberabit (The truth will set you free)?