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Not Random
100
The tendency of things to resist change in motion.
What is Inertia?
100
The first female Nobel Prize laureate.
Who is Marie Curie?
100
An NBA team that Lebron James has played for. (Name any)
What are the Cavaliers, Heat, Lakers?
100
This is the name of Blair's famous puzzle competition, held in May each year.
What is Puzzlepalooza?
100
This the best selling soda.
What is Coca-Cola?
200
This is Schrodinger's first name.
Who is Erwin?
200
This woman, born in London, is widely considered to be the first to publish a computer program.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
200
Who had the game-winning touchdown for the 2024 Super Bowl?
Who is Mecole Hardman?
200
This famous horror film, directed by Daniel Myrick, was set in the Seneca Creek State Park in Montgomery County, Maryland.
What is the Blair Witch Project?
200
This popular water bottle shares its name with a sports trophy.
What are Stanley Cups?
300
The vector describing the polarization of light in free space.
What is the Jones Vector?
300
A British woman best known for her Photo 51, revealing the double helix structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
300
This player, who also names an MCPS school, is the only player in MLB history to hit a walk-off-the-inside-the-park grand slam home run.
Who is Roberto Clemente?
300
These current MCPS school (buildings) were used for MBHS before 1998. Name both of these schools.
What are Sligo Creek ES and Silver Spring International MS?
300
This is the decade in which The Cure began producing music as a band.
What are the 1970s?
400
Recite ANY FORM of the Klein-Gordon Equation.
400
American mathematician known for her major contributions to the Apollo Mission.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
400
The only NFL team to ever go completely undefeated in a season, 17-0.
Who are the Miami Dolphins?
400
Montgomery Blair (the person) is famous for serving as this man's defense counsel in a historically significant court case.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
This artist born in Mexico City, known for her self-portraits, painted "Henry Ford Hospital" and "Diego and I".
Who is Frida Kahlo?
500
The type of scattering when an ultra-relativistic electron emits a high-energy proton.
What is Inverse Compton Scattering?
500
This woman, born in Iran, was the first woman to ever win the Fields Medal for her contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann Surfaces.
Who is Maryam Mirzakhani?
500
The top four countries in the FIFA 2022 World Cup.
What are Argentina, Morocco, Croatia, and France?
500
This school year was the last year that a Blair student was Student Member of the Board.
What is 2006 (or 2005)?
500
In a hint of the future, in 1973 Marjorie Post gave it to the U.S. Government as a warm-weather presidential retreat, but it was returned.
What is Mar-A-Lago?