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100

This is the longest running musical on Broadway.

What is The Phantom of the Opera?

100

Sometimes this has 5 lines and 4 spaces while at other times it belongs to a wizard.

What is a staff?

100

This has 118 parts.

What is the periodic table?

100

As opposed to the human number of 3, this animal has 12 different types of color photoreceptors in their eyes.

What is the mantis shrimp?

100
Audience misunderstanding of this word used by Bugs Bunny led to it being popularized as an insult.

What is nimrod?

200

This is the light left on in an unoccupied theatre so that it is never completely dark.

What is a ghost light?

200

This Italian is widely misbelieved to have poisoned his rival.

Who is Antonio Salieri?

200

Electricity and a symphony both need this to work.

What is a conductor?

200

This is the first primary color newborn babies are able to see.

What is red?
200

This term refers to writers contradicting, overwriting, or otherwise changing something that previously happened or was established.

What is retcon?

300

This theatre district was once known as The Great White Way.

What is Broadway?

300

This tempo marking is also where some funerals are held.

What is grave?

300

This rock floats.

What is pumice?

300

This is usually the last color languages develop a name for.

What is blue?

300

A Marvel LMD.

What is a Life Model Decoy?

400

This refers to two free-standing flats, hinged together, that are normally used as a backing for a doorway or window.

What is a book flat?

400

If uncoiled, this instrument would be 12 to 13 feet long.

What is the french horn?

400

Other than skin, this is the heaviest organ in the human body.

What is the liver?

400

In 1665, this scientist invented the color wheel.

Who is Isaac Newton?

400
A BFG is a weapon used in this classic video game.

What is Doom?

500

It's not uncommon for people who attend this theatre to faint, with one performance of Titus Andronicus resulting in 15 separate fainters.

What is Shakespeare's Globe?

500

This talented composer only ever conducted with one hand, using the other to hold his chin for fear of his head falling off and shattering.

Who is Tchaikovsky?

500

This probabilistic argument is used to estimate the number of active, communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the Milky Way.

What is the Drake Equation?

500

In the 1980s, psychologists experimented with painting jail cells and drunk tanks this color to calm aggressive prisoners.

What is pink?

500

The TV show Firefly liked to throw around this fake swear word.

What is gorram?