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100
What is the lowest possible temperature that a substance may have.
Absolute zero (or 0 kelvin or –273.15°C or –459.67°F)
100
This author's works explore the themes of fate and injustice and were set predominantly in the western US. This native Californian won numerous prizes, including the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes for his literature. One of his masterpieces, set during the Great Depression tells the story of a poor family of farmers driven from their Oklahoma home to California and is entitled the Grapes of Wrath.
John Steinbeck
100
This is the greek god who creates weapons for the other gods. A.K.A. the God of Blacksmiths.
Hephaestus
100
This game was created by a small independent firm and sold to Microsoft in 2014. As of February 2017, over 121 million copies of this game have been sold, making it the second best-selling video game of all time, only behind the various releases of Tetris. This video game was written and designed by Swedish game designer Markus "Notch” Persson.
Minecraft
100
A base-10 logarithmic scale developed in the 1930s where the magnitude is defined as the logarithm of the ratio of the amplitude of seismic waves to a given amplitude. It was developed at California Institute of Technology by Beno Gutenberg and Charles Francis Richter. This scale assesses the amount of damage done by an earthquake.
Richter scale
200
One of the primary manifestations of mass, Isaac Newton defined this term in his first law of motion. Applying to speed, direction or even state of rest, this is the term for the tendency of things to resist change in motion.
Inertia
200
This word comes from the French word meaning "two pieces of iron riveted or hinged together". This is a literary term describing a pair of lines of meter in poetry.
Couplet
200
The name of the god associated with mummification and the afterlife in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head.
Anubis
200
This game has a piece that has four sides inscribed with the letters Nun, Gimmel, Hey and Shin, mnemonics for the phrase 'Nes Gadol Hayah Sham', which translates to "A great miracle happened there”, a reference to the origins of the Hanukkah celebrations.
Dreidel
200
This element was used extensively in hydraulic gold mining in order to help the gold to sink through the flowing water-gravel mixture and increase the gold recovery rates. This chemical element has atomic number 80 and symbol Hg. It is commonly known as quicksilver.
Mercury
300
This ancient philosopher is known for his many contributions to physics, biology, music, politics and government, to name a few. In his study of motion he proposed that the speed at which two identically shaped objects sink or fall is directly proportional to their weights and inversely proportional to the density of the medium through which they move. He was the personal tutor of the feared Alexander the Great and a star pupil of Plato.
Aristotle
300
This pioneering American poet and story-teller had a storied youth: losing both parents at a young age, falling out with his adopted parents, marrying his young cousin who shortly after died, and failing out of the military. His literary works are dark and grotesque to match, from The Fall of the House of Usher to the Telltale Heart. His most famous poem describes a man distraught from the loss of his love and falling into madness while being spoken to by a Raven.
Edgar Allen Poe
300
The Mayan God of rain, lightning and storms. He has a lightning axe, which he uses to strike the clouds to produce thunder and rain.
Chaac
300
This was one of the earliest arcade video games and the first sports arcade video game. It was the first game developed by Atari and helped establish the video game industry. This two-dimensional game features two paddles and a ball bouncing between the two simulating table tennis.
Pong
300
This geological process carved out the Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA over several thousand years.
Erosion
400
In this quantum model of matter, the atom is described as a small, positively charged nucleus surrounded by electrons that travel in circular orbits around that nucleus. This model was superseded by the atomic orbital model which states that electrons don't follow precise paths around the nucleus, but rather can be found in various "shells" around the nucleus only with certain probabilities. This model was formulated in 1913 by its creators Ernest Rutherford and Niels Bohr.
Bohr model
400
"Make then laugh; make them cry; make them wait..." was a personal maxim of this English novelist. He edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles over his lifetime and campaigned vigorously campaigned for children's rights, education, and other social reforms. His 1843 novella remains popular to this day and continues to inspire adaptations: A Christmas Carol.
Charles Dickens
400
Found in Irish, Scottish, and Faroese folklore. These mythological creatures are said to live as seals in the sea but shed their skin to become human on land.
Selkies
400
In chess, this is the name of a move which attacks two pieces in a line, with the more valuable piece in front of the weaker piece.
Skewer
400
The process of alteration of iron-rich rocks or minerals into other substances due to oxygen. The reaction can occur relatively slowly, as in the case of rust, or more quickly, as in the case of fire.
Oxidation
500
What is term for the correlation between two particles that takes four outcomes and shrinks them into only two outcomes?
quantum entanglement
500
This Old English heroic poem, surviving in a single copy dated around the year 1000 by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet, features its eponymous 6th century warrior from Geatland in Sweden under attack by a monster known as Grendel.
Beowulf
500
These texts are the main sources of Norse mythology.
Eddas
500
This was a popular board game in ancient Egypt, that was played by two people, either on elaborate carved and inlayed boards like the one found in Tutankhamen’s tomb, or simply scratched into the earth. The oldest known representation of this game is in a painting from the tomb of Hesy, from 2686 BC.
Senet
500
This is the third of the three main types of rock; the other two being sedimentary and metamorphic. This rock type is formed by crystallizing magma.
Igneous Rocks