Batman
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200

This character, who originally appeared in comics in 1940, dresses as a clown and is the antithesis to Batman

Who is the Joker?

200

This force has a pull of 9.8 meters per second squared on Earth.

What is gravity?


200

In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the children offer the head of this animal on a stick to the beast supposedly roaming the island.

What is a pig?

200

In this RPG series, you collect pocket monsters, such as pikachu, squirtle, or charizard

What is Pokémon?

200

A coin, an aroma, mailed

cent, scent, sent

400

This butler serves as Batman’s sidekick and surrogate father figure.

Who is Alfred Pennyworth?

400

This vector quantity is the name of the rate at which an object changes it’s position.

What is velocity?

400

In “The Catcher in the Rye”, Holden Caufield imagines himself catching these before they fall off a cliff after mishearing Robert Burn’s poem, “Comin’ Thro the Rye.”

What are children?

400

This flagship series from Sega stars a blue hedgehog who collects golden rings at incredibly fast speeds

What is Sonic?

400

To calculate relative mass, a specific road, a part of milk

weigh, way, whey

600

This garment is worn in almost every adaption by Bruce Wayne’s mother when she is murdered

What is a pearl necklace?

600

This physical quantity often associated with thermodynamics is the measurement of how much chaos, randomness, or disorder in an object.

What is entropy?

600

This Harper Lee novel depicts Atticus Finch and his children Jem and Scout in the town of Maycomb, Alabama

What is To Kill a Mockingbird?

600

This controversial video game series from Rockstar Games gives the player an open-world city such as Miami, New York, or San Andreas

What is GTA?

600

Something worn to conceal the face, a low area, a ski resort in Colorado

veil, vale, Vail

800

This self-taught artist illustrated the New 52 Batman run, Batman: Last Knight on Earth, and the album cover for Korn’s Follow the Leader.

Who is Greg Capullo?

800

These subatomic particles that make up atoms have been confirmed by theoretical predictions based on their existence rather than direct observation.  

What are quarks?

800

In Dante Alighieri's Inferno, the main character falls in love with this woman who aids him in his Journey through Hell.

Who is Beatrice?

800

Created by Shigeru Miyamoto, this game features Link, who goes on quests to save the namesake princess from Ganon

What is Legend of Zelda?

800

A czar’s tenure, a stallion stomper, a drizzle

reign, rein, rain

1000

A man disfigured with a permanent smile is the main character of this 1928 silent film that originally inspired the creation of the Joker.

What is The Man Who Laughs?

1000

Based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations, this speculative structure also known as a Einstein–Rosen bridge links two points in spacetime

What are wormholes?

1000

This John Fowles’ novel, considered one of the first modern psychological thrillers, switches perspectives between a mentally ill man and the girl he abducts

What is The Collector?

1000

Mario first appeared in this video game series, under the name “Jumpman”

What is Donkey Kong?

1000

A sense, a place, and to quote

sight, site, cite