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100

In the Tom Hanks film “Castaway”, what type of sports ball is Chuck Nolands companion, Wilson?

What is a volleyball?

100

“The Raven”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, and “The Fall of the House of Usher” are works by which famous Gothic writer?

Who is Edgar Allen Poe?

100

Nirvana drummer, Dave Grohl, went on to front which other famous rock band?

 What is Foo Fighters?

100

Which French term that means “advanced guard” refers to novel, unusual, or experimental art?

What is avant-garde?

100

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, which two categories did she win?

What is Physics and Chemistry?

200

The nicknames, “Goose,” “Jester,” “Hollywood,” and “Wolfman,” are used for aviators in which 1986 film?

What is Top Gun?

200

Which Stephen King novel takes place mostly in the fictional Overlook Hotel?

What is The Shining?

200

Which Pink Floyd album features a prism on the cover?

What is Dark Side of the Moon?

200

Which Boston museum was the site of the infamous 1990 art heist in which thieves stole 13 works worth over $500 million dollars?  

What is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum?

200

Which scientist’s contribution led to the discovery of the structure of DNA?

Who is Rosalind Franklin?

300

What is the sign-off quote that Ron Burgundy uses in the 2004 film, Anchorman?

What is "Stay Classy, San Diego"?

300

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights recounts the tragic romance between which two lovers?

Who are Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff?

300

What is the best-selling album of all time?

What is Thriller by Michael Jackson?

300

What fashion movement of the 1960s was heavily influenced by London street style and designers like Mary Quant?

What is Mod fashion?

300

Kimberle Crenshaw coined what term in 1989 that describes how aspects of identity, like race and gender, create overlapping systems of discrimination and disadvantage?

What is intersectionality?

400

In the movie Legally Blonde, Elle Woods wins her case by outing a perjuring witness. What hairstyle fills in the blank? “Isn’t the first cardinal rule of ____ maintenance that you’re forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours at the risk of deactivating the immonium thyglocolate?”

What is a perm?

400

What is the subtitle for Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein?

What is The Modern Prometheus?

400

Who was the first woman ever inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Who is Aretha Franklin?

400

What is the term for the main female singer in an opera or an opera company?  

What is the prima donna?

400

In A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women were not naturally inferior to men but appeared so only because of what major factor?

What is a lack of access to an equal education?

500

What hearing condition does Baby have in the film Baby Driver?

What is Tinnitus?

500

E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey was originally a fan fiction for which book series?

What is Twilight?

500

Jimi Hendrix only had one Top 40 hit song, which song was it?

What is All Along the Watchtower?

500

With over 10,000 performances, what is the longest-running Broadway musical?

What is The Phantom of the Opera?

500

Who was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. congress?

Who is Shirley Chisolm?