This cooking term refers to the act of heating water until it is close to boiling.
What is simmering
100
He is the very controversial founder of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud
100
Production from this automobile company spiked during World War II.
What is Wolkswagen
100
The assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the catalyst for this 21st century occurrence known colloquially prior to 1945 as ____________.
What is the Great War.
100
Persecuted for his belief that the Earth did not hold the position as central to the Universe, this man was also the inventor of the telescope.
Who is Galileo
200
This 2009 box office smash was based on the life of famous cook Julia Childs.
What is Julie & Julia
200
This branch of psychology opines that only what can be observed can be scientifically studied.
What is the behaviourist branch.
200
This was the largest grossing automobile company in history prior to its billion dollar bailout in 2009
What is GM.
200
The four founding provinces of Canada
What are Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario and Quebec.
200
This man designed the general and relative theories of relativity.
Who is Einstein
300
This terms refers to slightly undercooked food, used often with pastas.
What is al dente
300
Considered the father of psychology, this man founded the first ever lab dedicated to psychology in 1897.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt
300
Marty Mcfly fired up the flux capacitor and went back in time in this 1980s machine in the movie "Back To The Future".
What is the DMC Delorean
300
JFK was to Lee Harvey Oswald as Abraham Lincoln is to ______
Who is John Wilkes Booth.
300
This discover of gravity was the first to apply such a concept to accurately map the path that extraterrestrial planets trace in the sky.
Who is Newton
400
The temperature in which water boils, at sea level, in degrees Kelvin.
What is 373K.
400
This is the part of the brain housing a wide range of human conduct, from rational though to fine motor control, and that is divided into four main lobes: the occipital, the parietal, the temporal and the frontal.
What is the cerebrum.
400
The little-know inventor of the automobile.
Who is Karl Benz.
400
This is the first Canadian in outer space.
Who is Marc Garneau
400
This basic physics concept is the reason for why the constituents of stars "stick" together.
What is the balancing forces of gravity and pressure.
500
The official term for cutting food into long strips.
What is to julienne
500
This well-documented phenomenon refers to the discomfort caused by the holding of two contrary beliefs simultaneously.
What is cognitive dissonance.
500
The expensive BMW brand stands for this.
What is Bayerische Motoren Werke (Anglicized as Bavarian Motor Works).
500
This country exclusively held the knowledge for the water-route to Japan in the 14th and 15th centuries.
What is Portugal
500
This force is responsible for the immense power radiating from our sun, or indeed any star. It is one of the four principle forces of physics.