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She received the Distinguished Flying Cross for becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
Who is Amelia Earhart?
100
He disputed the invention of calculus with Leibniz; he also names three laws of motion
Who is Isaac Newton?
100
Both the Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay are located in this capital city
What is Paris?
100
Victor creates a monster who destroys his life in this Mary Shelley horror novel
What is Frankenstein?
100
Formerly Governor of Indiana, this man is the current US Vice President
Who is Mike Pence?
200

This woman joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton in founding the National Woman Suffrage Association

Who is Susan B. Anthony?
200

This Greek names a theorem about right triangles that asserts that a squared plus b squared equals c squared

Who is Pythagoras?
200
The National Air and Space Museum and the National Zoo are both part of this giant Washington DC museum complex
What is the Smithsonian Institution?
200
Winston finally declares his love of Big Brother at the end of this dystopian Orwell novel
What is 1984?
200
This position currently held by Paul Ryan has been held previously by John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi
What is Speaker of the House?
300

This hero of the Hundred Years' War led the French at the Siege of Orleans and was later burned at the stake

Who is Joan of Arc?
300
John Nash and John von Neumann worked in this subfield of mathematics and economics, which includes problems such as the prisoners' dilemma
What is game theory?
300
Madrid's Museo Reina Sofia houses "Guernica", a masterpiece by this Spanish painter who also had "Blue" and "Rose" periods
Who is Pablo Picasso?
300
Nick Carraway narrates this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about a wealthy tycoon that is set during the Jazz Age
What is The Great Gatsby?
300

This Democratic candidate for president in 2004 served as Secretary of State before Rex Tillerson

Who is John Kerry?
400
This social reformer founded the Hull House in Chicago as a safe haven for the needy
Who is Jane Addams?
400
This Frenchman names a triangle that displays binomial coefficients, where each number is the sum of the two numbers above it
Who is Blaise Pascal?
400
The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses this artist's "Houses of Parliament" series; he also painted water lilies
Who is Claude Monet?
400
Novels by this man include East of Eden, Of Mice and Men, and The Grapes of Wrath
Who is John Steinbeck?
400
This Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson gave a speech that declared "You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!"
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
500
This Russian cosmonaut became the first woman in space in 1963
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
500
This mathematician names a zeta function and a namesake sum that is used for evaluating integrals
Who is Bernhard Riemann?
500
One museum with this name in NYC was has a white spiraling shape, while another museum with this name in Bilbao, Spain has undulating metal curves
What is the Guggenheim?
500
In this Kurt Vonnegut novel, Billy Pilgrim visits the planet Trafalmadore and survives the firebombing of Dresden
What is Slaughterhouse-Five?
500
This South Carolina senator ran for President in 1948 under the Dixiecrat party; he also notably filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957
Who is Strom Thurmond?