Mathematics
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Smugglers
Sports Transfers
Deez Nuts
100

What is XVII + XLI equal to?

LVIII (fifty-eight)

100

Which planned city in California is the third-largest in the state by area, but only has ~14,000 residents today?

California City

100

What infamous spice smuggler joined the Rebellion in Star Wars Episode IV?

Han Solo

100

Which two high-profile players did the Lakers and Mavericks trade this week?

Luka Doncic and Anthony Davis

100

Which fast food chain advertises that they 'don't cut corners'?

Wendy's

200

What is the derivative of arctan(x) with respect to x?

1/(1+x^2)

200

Which city in New Mexico was secretly constructed to host the Manhattan Project?

Los Alamos

200

I have smuggled this famously banned, ovoid chocolate into the US many times

Kinder Eggs

200

Which player's 2017 transfer remains the most expensive in sporting history, with a fee of £200M?

Neymar (Barcelona to PSG)

200

Which gym franchise is famous for its purple theme?

Planet Fitness

300

What is the sum of all reciprocals of prime numbers equal to?

Infinity

300

What shape was Washington D.C. planned to be?

A perfect square

300

What animal was smuggled to Europe by Christian monks from China, thus ending a 6th-century textile monopoly?

Silkworms

300

To the nearest $100M -- what was the total amount of money paid across Messi's 3 transfers?

$0

300

Which Pokemon was the first one to ever be designed?

Rhydon

400

Which computer scientist invented TeX -- precursor to the popular typesetting system LaTeX?

Donald Knuth

400

Which two Australian cities fought to be the capital, resulting in the foundation of Canberra between them?

Sydney and Melbourne

400

Which current world leader visited Tokyo Disneyland as a child by using a fake Brazilian passport?

Kim Jong-Un

400

In 2019, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins was paid >$10M to move from Twitch to which (now-defunct) streaming platform?

Mixer

400

What is the name of Fred Flintstone's wife?

Wilma

500

Which Berkeley Mathematics professor contributed to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, in a 1990 paper?

Ken Ribet

500

Which planned capital city was built in 41 months in 1960, is located over 1000km from the previous capital, and is shaped like an airplane?

Brasília

500

In 2018, disgraced Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn escaped trial by fleeing Japan to his home country, hidden inside a musical equipment box -- where did he go?

Lebanon

500

In 1987, pitcher Dickie Noles was traded from the Cubs to the Tigers for just 33 days, before the trade was undone. Who was he traded for?

Himself

500

I have a third of an ice. You give me a sixth of an ice. In total, what do I have?

Half an ice day