The British remember this Catholic dude - and his failed plot to blow up the House of Lords - on the 5th of November
Who is Guy Fawkes?
100
One of the first ones of these reference books showed a man holding a globe on its frontispiece
What are atlases?
100
This Italian gave his name to the sequence of numbers 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...
Who is Fibonacci?
100
The nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way takes its name from this constellation, a princess rescued by Perseus from being sacrificed to the sea monster Cetus
What is Andromeda?
100
Hitler goes up against this fictional villain three times and gets frozen in carbonite, dropped into the Rancor Pit, and light-sabered in half
Who is Darth Vader?
200
Eid al-Fitr celebrates the breaking of the fast at the end of this month
What is Ramadan?
200
This word for "destroy" comes from the Roman practice of punishing a mutinous army by killing one out of every ten mutineers
What is decimate?
200
{3,4,5} and {5,12,13} form this kind of triple - the squares of the first two numbers sum to the square of the third
What is a Pythagorean triple?
200
Sirius, the "Dog Star," is appropriately the brightest star in this constellation
What is Canis Major?
200
Snoop Dogg plays this prophet and gives new meaning to "burning bush"
Who is Moses?
300
On July 14, France celebrates the 1789 storming of this Parisian prison
What is the Bastille?
300
This word for chaos comes from the name of an insane asylum once run by the Church in London, not in Norman or Stillwater
What is bedlam?
300
An exclamation point after a number represents this, indicating to multiply that number by all lesser natural numbers
What is factorial?
300
The French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille named thirteen Southern Hemisphere constellations after scientific instruments, including this one used in his Cape of Good Hope observatory
What is Telescopium?
300
Einstein schools this present-day physicist with the lyrics, "I'm the giant whose shoulders you'd have stood on, if you could stand! / I'll give you a brief history of pain with the back of my hand."
Who is Stephen Hawking?
400
This holiday - the Vietnamese New Year - may forever be associated in American minds with a 1968 military campaign
What is Tet?
400
The Aztecs used their word for this fruit to refer to testicles. Spaniards thought it sounded like their word for lawyer
What is an avocado?
400
A number is an emirp if both it and an anagram of its digits are this
What is prime?
400
This reptile is the only constellation split into two non-contiguous parts, bisected by the constellation Ophiuchus
What is Serpens?
400
In a 3-on-3 matchup, this Eastern philosopher artfully turns the Western philosophers on each other
Who is Sun Tzu?
500
This Hindu festival of lights falls in October or November
What is Diwali?
500
These two similar sounding but otherwise seemingly unrelated words - one the domain of the rich and famous, the other the domain of pedantic English majors - share a common root that refers to a witch's spellbook
What are "glamour" and "grammar"?
500
6, 28, and 496 are the first three of these ideal numbers, where each equals the sum of its factors (excluding itself)
What are perfect numbers?
500
This arachnid was sent by either Artemis or Apollo to kill Orion
What is Scorpius?
500
Key and Peele play these two nonviolent leaders in a battle that includes the lyrics, "I admire the way you broke the British power, / But I have a dream that one day you'll take a shower"
Who are Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi?