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100

This team has won the most NBA championships in league history (tied).

Who are the Boston Celtics? 

100

This explorer reached the Americas in 1492 while sailing for Spain.

Who is Christopher Columbus?


100

This wizarding film franchise is based on books by J.K. Rowling.

What is Harry Potter?


100

This astronaut became the first human to walk on the Moon.

Who is Neil Armstrong?

100

This search engine company was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin

What is Google?

200

This franchise relocated from Seattle to become the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008.

Who are the Seattle SuperSonics?

200

This empire, centered in modern-day Turkey, lasted over 600 years before dissolving after World War I.

What is the Ottoman Empire?

200

This 1994 film is known for the quote, “Life is like a box of chocolates.”

What is Forrest Gump?


200

This was the first artificial satellite launched into orbit in 1957

What is Sputnik 1?

200

The company developed the Windows operating system.

What is Microsoft?

300

This team drafted Kobe Bryant in 1996?

Who are the Charlotte Hornets?


300

This trade route connected China to Europe for centuries and spread goods, culture, and disease.

What is the Silk Road?

300

This movie franchise, beginning in 2001, is based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novels.

What is The Lord of the Rings?

300

This boundary surrounds a black hole and marks the point of no return.

What is the event horizon?

300

This technology switches between two electrical states -- typically represented as 0 and 1 -- forming the foundation of digital computing

What is a Transitor?

400

This team won back-to-back championships in 1994 and 1995 after Michael Jordan temporarily retired.

Who are the Houston Rockets?


400

This political doctrine justified European imperial expansion by claiming racial and cultural superiority.

What is Social Darwinism?


400

This 2003 fantasy film won all 11 Academy Awards for which it was nominated.

What is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?


400

This phenomenon occurs when a massive star collapses under its own gravity at the end of its life.

What is a supernova?

400

The law that predicted the speed and capability of technology would double approximately every two years.

What is Moore's Law?
500

What No.2 Pick did Portland Select over Michael Jordan in 1984?

Who is Sam Bowie

500

This 1978 agreement between Egypt and Israel was brokered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

What is the Camp David Accords?

500

This 2019 South Korean film became the first non-English language film to win Best Picture.

What is Parasite?

500

This effect predicts that clocks closer to a massive object run more slowly than clocks farther away

What is gravitational time dilation? 

500

The term "debugging" became popular after engineers discovered this inside the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.

What is a Moth?