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This Italian form of Louis is the first name of a Super Mario brother
What is Luigi?
100
Marie gets a Nobel! Pierre gets a Nobel! Irene gets a Nobel! Frederic gets a Nobel! Everybody in this family gets a Nobel!
What is the Curie family?
100
Commonly used as a metric for intelligence, this score is also the title of a romantic comedy in which Albert Einstein plays matchmaker
What is IQ?
100
This physicist was never a faculty member at Princeton, but occupied an office in the University’s mathematics building in the 1930’s
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
This 2010 film follows a Harvard dropout as he attempts to create the website Facebook
What is The Social Network?
200
The popularity of this name has declined significantly since the release of a certain Amazon product in 2015
What is Alexa?
200
Thomas Francis was the guy who tested Jonas Salk's vaccine against this vicious disease through the double-blind method in 1954
What is Polio?
200
A speedy blue video game character and protein essential to embryonic development
What is Sonic hedgehog?
200
This residential college was the first to be established at Princeton
What is First college?
200
Premiered in 2017, this Jordan Peele horror-thriller masterpiece follows a black man who heads upstate to visit his girlfriend’s family
What is Get Out?
300
Among the most popular twin names for girls are these two, which form a trio with Charity
What are Faith and Hope?
300
Thomas Watson worked in the lab with this man, and was on the end of a very important phone call in 1876
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
Billboard's promotional shot for the Backstreet Boys' album, DNA, features this scientific method
What is Sanger sequencing?
300
This building on Princeton campus served as the nation’s capital for four months and eight days in 1783 during the Continental Congress
What is Nassau Hall?
300
The first of its kind, this 2012 film brought together a band of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
What is The Avengers?
400
Hey, this four-letter masculine name means "one who praises God"
What is Jude?
400
Howard Florey & Ernst Chain followed up Alexander Fleming's work on this antibiotic and they all shared a Nobel Prize in 1945
What is penicillin?
400
When a mouse embryo has a mutation in this gene, it will develop without a heart, just like a character from The Wizard of Oz with the same moniker
What is Tinman?
400
Princeton played in the first-ever intercollegiate football game against this team
What is Rutgers?
400
This 2014 film follows a protagonist from childhood to young adulthood. The catch? It was shot over 12 years using the same actors
What is Boyhood?
500
Used for both men and women, this English name also describes "a very strong wind"
What is Gale?
500
In 1942, at the University of Chicago, Leo Szilard helped this Italian create the first nuclear reactor
Who is Enrico Fermi?
500
This group of antibiotics is named for the French gangster film Rififi
What are rifamycins?
500
This former Princeton University graduate won the nobel prize in 2018 for their work in the directed evolution of enzymes
Who is Frances Arnold?
500
This 2016 Academy Award winner for Best Picture looks at three defining chapters in the life of Chiron, a young black man growing up in Miami
What is Moonlight?