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200

This G-type main sequence star is the nearest star to Earth.

What is the sun?

200

This northern country is the world’s second largest.

What is Canada?

200

This royal title names Machiavelli’s influential political treatise.

What is The Prince?

200

This former Louisiana Governor who was assassinated in the capitol in 1935 graduated from Tulane.

Who is Huey Long?

200

This children’s television show featuring animated trains debuted on October 9, 1984.

What is Thomas the Tank Engine?

400

An average adult human has this many bones.

What is 206?

400

The Tigris and Euphrates flow near this country’s capital of Baghdad.

What is Iraq?

400

This famously dense and long-winded book takes its name from the romanized name of a wandering Greek hero.

What is Ulysses?

400

The residence hall next to Monroe and Irby is named for this man, Tulane’s 9th president.

Who is Robert Sharp?

400

On July 1, 1984, Liechtenstein became the final country in Europe to grant this right to suffragettes.

What is the right for women to vote?

600

Scientists awarded the Nobel Prize receive it in this country’s capital of Stockholm.

What is Sweden?

600

This region south of the Sahara and north of greener Africa takes its name from the Arabic word for “coast."

What is the Sahel?

600

This literary and artistic period of the late 19th century is named for its revival of an earlier period based in imagination and feeling.

What is Neo-Romanticism?

600

This northeastern state, home to Cape May and Liberty Park, is where Paul Tulane was born.

What is New Jersey?

600

In 1984, this drug was introduced to Los Angeles, allegedly by the CIA, eventually sweeping the country in a namesake epidemic.

What is crack cocaine?

800

If you were a horseshoe crab, your blood would be this color.

What is blue?

800

This romance language spoken by 3000 people is the fourth most popular in Switzerland.

What is Romansch?

800

This English family dominated 19th century novels with their stories of women in agonizing and dramatic situations, informed by their own lives.

Who are the Brontë sisters?

800

These furry mammals are researched in Tulane’s national research center on the northshore.

What are primates?

800

On January 1, 1984, citizens of Bandar Seri Begawan celebrated independence from Britain in this tiny southeastern Asian nation.

What is Brunei?

1000

Named for a southeastern African country, this coastal microplate forms a fault with the Arabian Plate.

What is the Madagascar Plate?

1000

This country that borders Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan is one of two double-landlocked countries in the world.

What is Tajikistan?

1000

The publication of this divisional, allegorical novel of 1947 saw its author threatened with assassination from Muslim countries.

What is The Satanic Verses?

1000

Richard Yulman, primary funder of Yulman Stadium, was the former head of a US company specializing in producing this soft product.

What are mattresses?

1000

This puzzle game, found in some studies to increase cognitive activity, treat PTSD, and cure lazy eye, was released on June 6, 1984.

What is Tetris?