Surely Social Studies
"Romantic Era History"
A word in common
Ancient Greco-Roman Symbolism
Poly Sci
100

This social communication app had over 660M users worldwide by the end of 2010. It was acquired 3 times by eBay, Andreesen Horowitz, and finally by Microsoft. 

(S)kype 

100

The first 2 modern dating websites were Kiss.com (1994), Match.com (1995). This website was 3rd, launched in 1997 for jewish singles.

JDate

100

A massive celestial object that absorbs even light itself.
A golfer's one-hit-wonder. 

Hole

(Black Hole and Hole-in-one)

100

Lambda (λ) is commonly used in physics to denote this property of light.

Wavelength

100

A polygon with nine (9) sides is called a _________

Nonagon

200

Kylie Jenner famously lost this social media company over $1.3B in market value with a single critical tweet:
"sooo does anyone else not open ______ anymore? Or is it just me... ugh this is so sad"

(S)napchat

200

Scientists currently estimate the age of the universe to be X BILLION Earth years old. (round to the nearest whole number)

14 Billion


(February 14th/Valentine's day)

200

The atom bomb partner of Fat Man.
The capital of Arkansas 

Little!

Little Boy + Little Rock

200

The greek symbol rho (ρ), is commonly used in material science to denote this material property.

density

200

Carbon is a key element used in organic chemistry, due to its ability to form rings of this shape. 

Hexagon

300

This Brazilian Facebook cofounder famously renounced his US citizenship in order to dodge over $700M in capital gains taxes.

Eduardo (S)averin

300

Originally discovered by Clyde Tombaugh on February 18th, 1930, this recently photographed body in our solar system was found to have a giant "heart-shaped plain" on its surface, now known as "Tombaugh" Regio.

Pluto!

300

Columbia University journalism award.
Your most valued possession.

Prize!

Pulitzer Prize.
Prized possession. 

300

You'll have 60 seconds on the clock! Place a wager.

What is the proper way to write the number 4999 in Roman Numerals?


300

Also known as a "hypercube," this 4-D analogue of the cube was a major plot point used in the movie Interstellar.


Tesseract

400

This well-known multi-billion dollar company was originally founded as a video game company called Tiny Speck.  

After its massively successful pivot, the company's CEO was quoted saying "[Tiny Speck] was never going to be the kind of business that would have justified the $17.2 million dollars in venture capital investment."

(S)lack

400

This famous scientist had her marriage come to a shocking and tragic end in 1906, when her husband was killed after slipping next to a heavy horse-drawn cart. The couple worked together and jointly won the Nobel Prize for their work in radioactivity - discovering both Radium and Polonium.

Marie Curie

400

A medical emergency code for cardiac/respiratory arrest.
A well-performing, safe, and reliable investment opportunity.

Blue!


Code Blue
Blue chip

400

The wave function, used in Schrodinger's equation, is represented by this Greek symbol.

Psi (Ψ)

400

There are only 2 square-shaped national flags, both of which belong to European countries. Name one of them.

Switzerland

Vatican City

500

Based in Berlin, Germany, this 12-year old social music company had its CEO replaced by Vimeo CEO Kerry Trainor, just 2 years before a $75M investment from Sirius XM Satellite Radio. 

(S)oundCloud

500

Willem Einthoven received the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine in 1924 for his invention of this diagnostic device.


ECG / EKG 

500

Unalienable rights endowed by their Creator in the US Declaration of Independence

A heavy-duty tool that can cut through crashed cars

Life!

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Jaws of Life

500

This symbol is used in a common statistical test, used to determine whether there is a statistically significant difference between the expected frequencies and observed frequencies in one or more categories of a contingency table.

The test was popularized by Karl Pearson in 1900, and is now called Pearson's ___2 test.

χ (Chi) or "Chi-squared" test

500

This Asian country has the world's only non-quadrilateral national flag. It acts as both the state and civil flag.

Nepal
The crimson red is Nepal's national colour, and reflects the brave spirit of the Nepalese people. The two triangles symbolize the Himalayan Mountains