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This Scottish philosopher is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is credited with co-founding 80,000 Hours and the Centre for Effective Altruism. 

Who is Will MacAskill? 

100
Name three risks that could cause 10% or more of the population to die
What is global pandemics, meteor strike, nuclear war, artificial intelligence, extreme climate change?
100
This famous EA organization rigorously analyzes charities to find the best organizations to donate to
What is GiveWell?
100
Name three EA organizations.
What is whatever the judges agree on?
100

Discrimination based on species membership.

What is speciesism? 

200
This world-famous Princeton philosopher visited Haverford’s campus in 2016. He donated his $10,000 honorarium to Against Malaria Foundation
What is Peter Singer?
200
Name this famous historical incident that is the closest humanity has come to deliberate nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
GiveWell roughly estimates that on average, a life can be saved with around $3,000 to this organization?
What is the Against Malaria Foundation?
200

This is the practice of pursuing high-paying careers and donating a part (usually 10%) of one's salary to effective charities. 

What is 'Earning to Give'? 

200
According to Wikipedia, this country has the highest proportion of people eating a vegetarian or vegan diet, with 28.8%
What is India?
300
This famous billionaire CEO and celebrity has been working his entire life to start companies to do the most good. In college at UPenn in the 80s/90s, he thought about the 5 things most likely to influence the future of humanity and eventually ended up working on several of them. He is worshipped as a demi-god in many circles, especially Silicon Valley. One could jokingly refer to him as _____, the First of His Name, King of Mars, Lord of the Electric Cars, Protector of the Realm, Father of Dragons and Falcons.
Who is Elon Musk?
300
Nick Bostrom, Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, wrote this 2014 book on the threat of advanced artificial intelligence. It convinced Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and others to declare their worry about AI. Elon Musk stated that AI could be more dangerous than nukes. Name the book.
What is Superintelligence?
300
This infectious disease was responsible for 300-500 million deaths in the 20th century. It was finally eradicated in 1979.
What is smallpox?
300
These are the three main ways used to prioritize causes.
What is scale, neglectedness, and tractability?
300
Paul was a German animal who shot to worldwide fame by correctly predicting all of Germany's results at the 2010 soccer world cup. What type of animal was he?
What is an Octopus?
400

This Russian Lieutenant Colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the US which would have led to all-out nuclear war. 

Who is Stanislav Petrov? 

400
Two diseases have wiped out 5% or more of the world’s population in the past. One of them is the infamous black plague. Name the other one.
What is the Spanish Flu?
400
The median personal income in the US falls under the richest ___ %
What is 3.7%
400

A formula that can be used to calculate what the posterior credence of a proposition ought to be, given a certain prior credence.

What is the Bayes Formula? 

400
True or false: for every one dog or cat euthanized in a shelter, there exists roughly 3,400 factory farmed animals, according to Animal Charity Evaluators
What is true?
500

A Soviet virologist and Deputy Minister of Health for the Soviet Union, he called on the World Health Assembly to launch an initiative that was instrumental in the eradication of smallpox. 

Who is Viktor Zhdanov?

500

The reason why Toby Ord and Will MacAskill disagree on whether or not we are at the hinge of history. 

What is 'the degree to which we can strongly update an incredibly low prior given the current evidence' (or something like that...)? 

500

The two Nobel laureates in Economics whose work is pivotal to EA thought on Global Poverty that most recently visited LSE.

Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer

500

This is when altruistically minded individuals make decisions without consulting each other, resulting in a sub-optimal outcome.

What is the Unilateralist's Curse? 

500
If humans grew at the same rate as this kind of factory-farmed animal, a baby would weigh 500 lbs by age 10 according to countinganimals.com (a ten-year old will weighs around 80 lb)
What is a chicken?