World Geography
Literature
STEM
U.S. History
Film & Media
100

The world’s largest desert outside polar regions.

What is the Sahara?

100

Author of One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Who is Gabriel García Márquez?

100

Symbol for water in chemistry.

What is H₂O?

100

President during the Louisiana Purchase.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

100

Director of Pulp Fiction.

Who is Quentin Tarantino?

200

Country with the most time zones.

What is Russia?

200

Shakespeare’s play featuring Yorick’s skull.

What is Hamlet?

200

The unit measure of electrical resistance.

What is the ohm?

200

The war that began in 1914.

What is World War I?

200

Actor who played Neo in The Matrix.

Who is Keanu Reeves?

300

Capital of Kazakhstan.

What is Astana?

300

Jane Austen’s novel about inheritance and manners.

What is Pride and Prejudice?

300

Branch dealing with rates of change in math.

What is calculus?

300

Location of Woodstock in 1969.

What is Bethel, New York?

300

First feature film to win Best Picture Oscar.

What is Wings?

400

Deepest ocean trench by name.

What is the Mariana Trench?

400

Poet who wrote The Waste Land.

Who is T. S. Eliot?

400

Quantum mechanics pioneer whose name begins with N.

Who is Niels Bohr?

400

Amendment giving women the right to vote.

What is the 19th Amendment?

400

Film of 1994 with interconnected L.A. stories.

What is Pulp Fiction?

500

River that flows through Cairo.

What is the Nile?

500

Russian novel featuring Anna Karenina.

What is Anna Karenina?

500

Theory connecting mass and energy (name it!).

What is E = mc²?

500

Supreme Court case ending racial segregation in public schools.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

500

Director who helmed Inception.

Who is Christopher Nolan?