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Shakespeare
History in Music
"B" in Geology
Heisman Trophy Winners
Fall Out Boy
100
Superstitious theater folk consider it bad luck to speak the name of this play aloud, opting instead to call it the "Scottish play"
What is Macbeth?
100
Both Philip Glass and the Counting Crows put this former Swiss Patent Office clerk on the beach
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
Old metamorphic and igneous rock beneath a sedimentary cover or where twentysomethings stereotypically live before they move out of the house
What is a basement?
100
This controversial Texas A&M QB was the first freshman to win the Heisman (2012)
Who is Johnny Manziel?
100
In the Fallout video games, Vault Boy is seen winking and making this gesture, not to give approval but to assess distance from a nuclear blast
What is a "thumbs up"?
200
Shakespeare wrote 154 of these fourteen-line poems
What are sonnets?
200
19th-century Dutch painter who is the subject of a Don McLean song with the parenthetical Starry Starry Night
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
200
A rock whose name comes from an Italian word for a stone made by cemented gravel
What is breccia?
200
This Midwest school has had more players win the Heisman than any other university, though their last winner was thirty years ago
What is Notre Dame?
200
Fall Out Boy's "Centuries" samples "Tom's Diner," fitting given that the latter was used to develop this file format
What is the MP3?
300
The namesake of the parrot from Disney's Aladdin is a character from this play
What is Othello?
300
Mongol conqueror who Miike Snow channels when they "don't want you to get it on with nobody else but me"
Who is Genghis Khan?
300
The most common volcanic rock type on Earth
What is basalt?
300
The only defensive player to win the Heisman (1997)
Who is Charles Woodson?
300
"Save Rock and Roll" features this English singer-songwriter-pianist who reacts fabulously when he is covered with fake blood in the music video
Who is Elton John?
400
A black-and-white version of this play released in 2012 was directed by Joss Whedon and shot at his house in Santa Monica
What is Much Ado about Nothing?
400
This conflict was memorialized in a Clash song with the lyrics "in Andalucia / The shooting site in the days of '39"
What is the Spanish Civil War?
400
Displacement and mixing of sediments or soils by animals and plants
What is bioturbation?
400
This Buckeye running back is the only player to win the Heisman twice (1974, 1975)
Who is Archie Griffin?
400
Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz signed this similar sounding quartet to his Decaydance label in 2004
Who is Panic! at the Disco?
500
In 2014, it was discovered that this nefarious titular character had scoliosis in real life
Who was Richard III?
500
The Beastie Boys dropped science like this 17th-century Italian dropped an orange
Who is Galileo?
500
The Michigan this formed when a Silurian limestone deposit caused a relatively large amount of subsidence in what is now the Lower Peninsula
What is a basin?
500
The only Heisman winner to have a college football stadium named after him is this Hawkeye
Who is Nile Kinnick?
500
The canine companion from the Fallout video games has this unappetizing name
What is Dogmeat?