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Science Fiction
200
After saving the Fellowship of the Ring from a Balrog, this bearded wizard goes from grey to white.
Who is "Gandalf?"
200
J.K. Rowling wrote her first books in the "Wizarding World" about this young wizard
Who is "Harry Potter"?
200
"The Great War"- or WWI was kicked off when Serbian Gavrilo Princip assassinated Austro-Hungarian Franz Ferdinand in this year
What is "1914"?
200
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both"
What is "The Road not Taken"?
200
This Starfleet captain boldly goes where no man has gone before with his officers Spock, McCoy, and Uhura, among others.
Who is "Captain Kirk"?
400
His real name was Edward Teach, this scourge of the Carribean named his captured slave ship the "Queen Anne's Revenge"
Who is "Blackbeard"?
400
One who murders for political or monetary gain
What is an "Assassin?"
400
A young Mike Tyson says he took up boxing after someone killed one of these, his beloved pet
What is a "Pigeon"?
400
"Once upon a midnight dreary,
While I pondered, weak and weary"
What is "The Raven"?
400
Activate VATS on your Pip-Boy to slay Deathclaws, Super Mutants and Ghouls in this post-nuclear video game series
What is "Fallout"?
600
In "Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends" he is a mischievous domed cylinder
Who is "Bloo"?
600
Not much to spit out, Tiffany & Crimson Trio are this type of watermelon
What is "Seedless"?
600
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After the U.S.S. Maddox claimed to be attacked by machine guns and torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin, the U.S. became embroiled in conflict in this nation.
600
"In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a _____ within a _____ "
What is "Dream Within a Dream"?
600
This military novel by Robert Heinlein was made into a movie in the 90's, but the movie deviated from the novel with its anti-war and anti-fascist themes
What is "Starship Troopers"?
800
This real-world viking is considered the first settler of Greenland, and is the father of Leif Erikson
Who is "Erik the Red?"
800
This small metric unit of power is one thousandth of a Joule per second.
What is a "Milliwatt"?
800
This Shakespearean romantic killed Tybalt in a duel after Tybalt killed Mercutio
Who is "Romeo"?
800
"Ours is not to reason why
Ours is but to do and die..."
What is "Charge of the Light Brigade"?
800
A dystopian Sci Fi novel involving an intelligence-based social hierarchy and artificial wombs, Aldous Huxley published the book in 1932
What is "Brave New World"?
1000
H.P. Lovecraft loved this character so much that he linked him to Hastur in his own works, but this monarch is better known for his own book of short stories by Robert W. Chambers
Who is "The King in Yellow"?
1000
The double-reed woodwind pictured here
What is a "Bassoon"?
1000
At the battle of San Jacinto, Texian soldiers surprised Mexican troops while crying out "Remember the... " This Texas mission
What is the "Alamo"?
1000
"It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul."
What is "Invictus"?
1000
One of the original "Big Three" Sci Fi authors, he wrote "The Positronic Man", "The Gods Themselves", and "I, Robot"
Who is "Isaac Asimov"?