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100

This 1997 film became the first movie to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

What is Titanic?

100

This fast food sounds like it might bark, but it’s a sausage in a bun.

What is a hot dog?

100

This capital city of Australia is located in the Australian Capital Territory, not the country’s largest city.

What is Canberra?

100

This gas makes up about 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere.

What is Nitrogen?

100

Who is not an SoF Partner: Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Blackstone, and Blue Owl

What is Blue Owl?
200

This 2019 South Korean film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first non-English-language film to do so.

What is Parasite?

200

This “sloppy” sandwich can get messy, with ground beef in a sweet tomato sauce on a bun.

What is a Sloppy Joe?

200

This capital of Kazakhstan was renamed from Astana in 2019, then reverted back to Astana in 2022.

What is Astana?

200

It’s the only metal that is liquid at standard room temperature.

What is Mercury?

200

What event sparked the founding of SoF

What is the Great Recession?

300

This 1999 film features the quote, “I see dead people.”

What is The Sixth Sense?

300

This breakfast dish sounds like it involves a rancher, but it’s eggs cooked in a hole in a slice of bread.

What are cowboy eggs? (or eggs in a hole)

300

This capital of Myanmar is a planned city that replaced Yangon as the official capital in 2005.

What is Naypyidaw?

300

These "powerhouses of the cell" generate most of its chemical energy.

What are Mitochondria?

300

What are the four SoF Values

What is humility, integrity, excellence, and compassion?

400

This director won Best Director Oscars for both The Revenant and Birdman.

Who is Alejandro G. Iñárritu?

400

This dessert shares its name with something you might wear on your feet, but it’s a baked fruit dish with topping.

What is a cobbler?

400

This African capital, one of three in its country, serves as the legislative capital.

What is Cape Town?

400

At $0$ Kelvin, all molecular motion stops; this state is known as absolute this.

What is Absolute Zero?

400

Name one person who spoke at the SoF D.C. Symposium from last month

Matthew will have the answer

500

This 2014 film, shot to appear as one continuous take, stars Michael Keaton as a washed-up actor.

What is Birdman?

500

This snack sounds like it might be alive, but it’s just corn kernels that puff up when heated.

What is popcorn?

500

This capital of Sri Lanka is often shortened to “Colombo,” though Colombo is actually the commercial capital.

What is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte?

500

This 19th-century monk is known as the "Father of Genetics" for his work with pea plants.

Who is Gregor Mendel?

500

How many weeks is the recruitment bootcamp?

What is six weeks?