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100

What is the most basic unit of life?

Cell

100

What force makes objects fall?

Force of gravity

100

Who was the first US president?

George Washington

100

Which war in Europe lasted approximately thirty years?

Thirty Years' War

100

Which country was the location of the Vietnam War?

Vietnam

200

What type of chemical donates a proton?

Acid

200

What is the only prime even number?

2

200

How many amendments were included in the Bill of Rights?

Ten

200

In what nation did Charles de Gaulle lead an underground resistance movement against the Nazis?

France

200
As a result of the Treaty of Tordesillas, which is the only Portuguese-speaking country in South America?

Brazil

300

What is the name of the system of all phospholipid bilayers in the cell?

Endomembrane system

300

What force causes acceleration towards the center of a circle and is actually only caused by other forces?

Centripetal force

300

What tragedy in Chicago involved a bomb killing police officers and may have been linked to the Knights of Labor?

Haymarket Square

300

Which European war saw many Western nations ally with the Ottoman Empire against Russia, and saw both the Charge of the Light Brigade and changes in wartime nursing under Florence Nightingale?

Crimean War

300

Great Britain fought and lost to which country for control of lucrative fishing rights during the Cod War?

Iceland

400

Which enzyme releases tension in a strand of DNA while helicase unwinds it?

Topoisomerase

400

What type of coordinate system describes location with radians and radii and allows for the creation of cardioids, lemniscates, limacons, Archimedes spirals, and rose curves?

Polar coordinates

400

Which US Secretary of State first advocated for the warming of relations with China during the Cold War?

Henry Kissinger

400

What Polish union was instrumental in Polish secession from the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War?

Solidarity

400

What battle in Egypt was seen as the turning point of the North African campaign in favor of Great Britain?

Battle of El-Alamein

500

Which forces, caused by momentary asymmetries in electron distribution, allow for light nonpolar compounds like helium to condense and freeze at very low temperatures?

Van der Waals forces

500

What are the only two factors that affect how fast a spring oscillates?

The combined mass of the spring and any weights attached to it, and the spring constant/stiffness.

500

Which US army officer led the American expedition into the Black Hills of North Dakota in violation of a treaty with the Sioux Native Americans?

George Armstrong Custer

500

Which peaceful revolution saw the replacement of James II with William of Orange and Mary?

Glorious Revolution or Bloodless Revolution

500

What important Byzantine general was tasked with land conquest in Southern Europe and Northern Africa by Justinian I?

Belisarius