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This law states that force is the product of mass and acceleration

What is Newton's Second Law?

100

This US President played Michigan football

Who is Gerald Ford?

100

The number of missions Yossarian must fly to complete his service keeps going up in this satirical novel

What is Catch-22?

100

Cut a business' staff

What is downsize?

100

Casa MilĂ , also known as La Pedrera, "the quarry", is in this Spanish city known for its unusual architecture

What is Barcelona?

200

This physicist won two Nobel Prizes for work in radioactivity

Who is Marie Curie?

200

This is where Michigan plays home hockey games

What is Yost Ice Arena?

200

This Boris Pasternak novel concludes with an epilogue & "The Poems of" the main character

What is Doctor Zhivago?
200

Something causing ruin

What is a downfall?

200

This desert covers about 500,000 square miles in China & southern Mongolia

What is the Gobi Desert?

300

This is the Standard International (SI) unit of energy

What is a Joule?

300

This Michigan sports team has wont the most national championships

What is men's swimming & diving?

300

Born with a very low IQ, Charlie Gordon undergoes surgery that increases his intelligence in this Daniel Keyes novel

What is Flowers for Algernon?

300

"The lights are much brighter there"

What is downtown?

300

People from Glasgow aren't called Glasgowians but this

What are Glaswegians?

400

The radius of this astronomical object is named after Karl Schwarzschild

What is a black hole?

400

This is the winningest coach in Michigan history

Who is Carol Hutchins (softball)?

400

This novel about Scottish drug users is written in dialect like "Ma eyes burrow intae the back ay her heid"

What is Trainspotting?

400

When hunting, it's where you can smell your prey but it can't smell you

What is downwind?

400

There are 2 official languages spoken on Cyprus--Greek & this

What is Turkish?

500

This so-called "God particle" discovered by CERN in 2012 gives mass to all other particles

What is the Higgs boson?

500

Michigan won the national basketball championship in this year

What is 1989?

500

"Go Tell It on the Mountain", about the 14-year-old son of a preacher, was this author's first novel

Who is James Baldwin?

500

Tyrannized, literally trampled upon

What is downtrodden?

500

Kings reign over these 2 countries in Asia that both begin with "B" & end with "N"

What are Bahrain and Bhutan?