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100
English Breakfast and Earl Grey are two kinds of these
What is tea?
100
The diaphragm and tongue are both examples of these
What are muscles?
100
Marie Curie discovered radium, and this element named after her country of birth
What is polonium?
100
This war was also known as "Mr. Madison's War"
What is the War of 1812?
100
This famous embroidery shows the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England
What is the Bayeux Tapestry?
100
This playwright wrote "As You Like It" and "The Tempest"
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
Seven Against Thebes was written by this ancient Greek playwright
Who is Aeschylus?
100
This Dutch artist painted this portrait of Dr. Gachet, alongside other famous paintings involving skies and cypress trees
Who is Vincent Van Gogh?
100
This artist painted this work, titled Composition II, using basic shapes and primary colors
Who is Piet Mondrian?
100
This falcon-headed Egyptian deity is the god of the sky and war
Who is Horus?
100
Some astrologers argue there are 13 instead of 12 zodiac signs; this sign is the 13th
What is Ophiuchus?
100
This river starts in Minnesota and empties into the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Mississippi River?
100
This fort in Oregon where Lewis and Clark stayed during the winter of 1805 to 1806
What is Fort Clatsop?
100
This football team had a perfect season in 1972 under coach Don Shula
What is the Miami Dolphins?
200
What is Niger?
200
DNA has two strands; RNA has this many strands
What is one?
200
A measure of fluid's resistance to flow
What is viscosity?
200
The Byzantine Empire fell to this empire when it lost Constantinople in 1453
What is the Ottoman Empire?
200
This war ended with the Treaty of Westphalia
What is the Thirty Years' War?
200
This poetic form uses 14 lines, and usually ends with a couplet
What is a sonnet?
200
"The Lusiads" is an epic poem from this country, which details the journey of Vasco da Gama
What is Portugal?
200
"The Art of" this, it was pioneered by the works of J.S. Bach
What is the fugue?
200
The symphonies labeled "Titan" and "Resurrection" are by this Austrian composer
Who is Gustav Mahler?
200
Theravada, Mahayana, and Zen are all branches of this religion
What is Buddhism?
200
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible is known by this term
What is the Pentateuch?
200
This country's flag is unique in that it is the only country in the world that has a pennant shaped flag
What is Nepal?
200
This highest elevated capital city is around 11,942 feet above sea level
What is La Paz?
200
This recent horror/sci-fi movie features a doll with AI intelligence designed by Gemma
What is M3GAN?
300
La Guerra de las Malvinas is another name for this 1980s conflict between Argentina and Great Britian
What is the Falklands War?
300
In 1964, this event rocked Alaska, causing 131 deaths
What is an earthquake?
300
This device stores electrical energy in an electric field with two conducting plates
What is a capacitor?
300
This leader was the first head of government of the Soviet Union
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
300
King Leopold II founded an African colony that later became this modern nation
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
300
John Donne wrote "no man is an" this, which is also a home for Doctor Moreau
What is an island?
300
Sylvia Plath wrote "The Bell Jar," while this poet of "The Thought Fox" was her husband
Who is Ted Hughes?
300
This musical was based on Puccini's "La Boheme," and involved characters such as Mark, Roger, and Mimi
What is Rent?
300
This Spanish museum houses "Las Meninas," as well as works by Goya and El Greco
What is El Prado? (accept Museo del Prado)
300
This famous ancient philosopher wrote about the Allegory of the Cave in The Republic`
Who is Plato?
300
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is by this American anthropologist who studied under Franz Boas
Who is Ruth Benedict?
300
This mountain range contains Cotopaxi and Aconcagua
What is the Andes?
300
Sri Lanka was originally known by this name
What is Ceylon?
300
Recent albums of his include Certified Loverboy and Honestly Nevermind
Who is Drake (accept Aubrey Graham)?
400
This famous American writer wrote "I hate quotation, tell me what you know"
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
400
This force occurs when an object slides on a surface
What is friction?
400
The three periods of the Mesozoic Era are the Triassic, Jurassic, and this
What is Cretaceous?
400
Japanese internment occurred during this global conflict
What is World War II (WWII)?
400
This Mesopotamian writing system consists of wedge-shaped impressions
What is cuneiform?
400
This play by Thornton Wilder centers on the Gibbs and Webb families
What is Our Town?
400
There are Poetic and Prose versions of this, old Norse narratives and poems that are mostly anonymous
What is the Edda?
400
"Christ the Redeemer" can be seen in this South American country
What is Brazil?
400
Louis Sullivan designed the Wainwright Building and this building named after a life insurance company
What is the Prudential Building?
400
Structural and frictional are types of this concept, the condition in which people seek work but cannot find a job
What is unemployment?
400
Libertarianism is contrasted with this philosophical view that all events are determined by previously existing causes
What is determinism?
400
This country was originally known as East Pakistan
What is Bangladesh?
400
A 2011 earthquake rocked this New Zealand city, and was later considered New Zealand's fifth deadliest disaster
What is Christchurch?
400
This famous director and script writer worked on movies such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now
Who is Francis Ford Coppola?
500
These waves are used to determine the structure of crystals
What are X-rays?
500
This French chemist came up with the law of conservation of mass
Who is Antoine Lavoisier?
500
Cell organelle that processes, sorts, and sends proteins to other cell areas
What is the Golgi apparatus? (accept Golgi body)
500
This "Sun King" ruled France from 1643 to 1715
Who is Louis XIV?
500
This muckraker published "The History of the Standard Oil Company" in McClure's
Who is Ida Tarbell?
500
This literary movement included road trippers Ken Kesey and Jack Kerouac, as well as the poet Allen Ginsberg
What is the Beat Generation? (accept Beatniks or Beat)
500
The Newbery Award is for distinguished children's literature, while THIS award is for distinguished illustration of children's literature
What is the Caldecott Award?
500
This type of dance involves pirouettes and plies
What is ballet?
500
Works like Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q and Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 are a part of this art movement
What is Dada?
500
This Biblical figure was responsible for baptizing Jesus, hence his name
Who is St. John (the Baptist)?
500
This Iranian religion is one of the oldest organized faiths
What is Zoroastrianism?
500
This is the tallest mountain in Japan, located on the island of Honshu
What is Mt. Fuji?
500
This country gained independence from Portugal and Indonesia
What is East Timor (accept Timor-Leste)?
500
The "Fighting Irish" is the nickname of this Indiana basketball team
What is Notre Dame?
600
This election year was the first time a president won with fewer popular votes
What is the election of 1876?
600
The optic nerve serves this organ
What is the eye?
600
The Joule-Thomson effect describes a change in this when a gas is forced through a valve
What is temperature?
600
This famous "doctrine" warned European powers not to colonize Central and South America
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
600
This colorful rebellion ended the Yuan Dynasty in China
What is the Red Turban Rebellion?
600
"Maman died today, or yesterday maybe" starts this famous novel by Albert Camus
What is The Stranger? (accept L'Etranger)
600
It's not a famous George Orwell novel, but this novel by Haruki Murakami involves Aomame and her run-in with the Sakigake religious cult
What is 1Q84?
600
Andy Warhol and Roy Liechtenstein were part of this art movement inspired by advertising and comic books
What is pop art?
600
The earliest known examples of prehistoric art can be found in this series of caves located in France
What is Lascaux?
600
These spirits, sometimes called "holy powers," are revered in Shinto
What are kami?
600
This mother of Andromeda was considered arrogant and vain, and was the wife of King Cepheus
Who is Cassiopeia?
600
Madagascar contains the mouse and ring-tailed type of this primate
What is the lemur?
600
This man is the current dictator of Belarus
Who is Alexander Lukashenko?
600
Lance Armstrong won this race seven times, but his titles were later stripped due to a scandal involving performance enhancing drugs
What is the Tour de France?