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This element is the lightest below the metalloid “ladder” on the periodic table, and its most common ore is bauxite. Name this element with an atomic number of 13.

Aluminum

100

Name this job held by Ian Fleming’s character James Bond.

Spy

100

The Dos de Mayo uprising targeted this man’s forces in Spain, who were defeated by a force led by Arthur Wellesley. Name this emperor of France who lost to the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo.

Napoleon

100

This winged horse was born from the neck of Medusa after she was slain by Perseus.

Pegasus

100

Name this first female British prime minister, nicknamed the “Iron Lady.”

Margaret Thatcher

200

The difference in this quantity between two atoms characterizes their bond as ionic, polar, or non-polar. Name this quantity that describes an atom’s ability to attract electrons.

Electronegativity

200

name this author who wrote about the arrest of Josef K in The Trial and described Gregor Samsa’s transformation into a giant insect in The Metamorphosis.

Franz Kafka

200

A “sarcophagus” surrounds one of these facilities in which a heap of toxic material known as the “Elephant’s Foot” was found.

Nuclear Power Plant

200

Name this type of artwork exemplified by Diego Rivera’s Man at the Crossroads, which is painted directly onto walls.

Murals

200

Name this Nordic country that is governed from Helsinki.

Finland

300

A test for this trait was initially used to measure the development of children by Alfred Binet but has since been used to test adults by organizations like MENSA.

Intelligence

300

In this play, Fortinbras becomes king when the title character dies after killing Laertes and Claudius. Name this Shakespeare tragedy about a Prince of Denmark who asks, “to be, or not to be.”

Hamlet

300

This military leader was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine before leading land troops at the Siege of Yorktown. Name this French “Hero of Two Worlds” who assisted the Americans during the Revolutionary War.

Marquis de Lafayette

300

This hero uses a thread of string given to him by Ariadne to escape the labyrinth. Name this Athenian hero who slew the Minotaur.

Theseus

300

The title character of this musical sings “The Music of the Night” and “Angel of Music” in his attempts to woo the reluctant Christine Daaé. Name this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about a villain in the Paris opera house.

Phantom of the Opera

400

The Haber process synthesizes a compound containing one atom of this element and three atoms of hydrogen.

Nitrogen

400

The black Younger family’s integration into a white neighborhood in Chicago is chronicled in what play by Lorraine Hansberry?

A Raisin in the Sun

400

Cuauhtémoc (Kwaw-tey-moc) became tlatoani of Tenochtitlan after Moctezuma II was killed in the custody of this man

Hernán Cortés.

400

Midori Ito became the first woman to perform a  triple axel in this activity in 1989. This activity involves the usage of toe jumps, edge jumps, and spins in different sequences to score points.

Figure Skating

400

This sea, which is home to the only warm-water ports in Russia, also contains a large peninsula annexed by Russia from Ukraine in 2014. Name this sea which contains the Crimean Peninsula.

Black Sea

500

This quantity, which has “kinematic” and “dynamic” varieties, is constant in Newtonian fluids and is equal to zero in superfluids

Viscosity

500

In a story by this author, Della sells her hair to buy Jim a watch-chain, only to find that Jim sold his watch to buy Della a comb. Name this author of “The Ransom of Red Chief” and “The Gift of the Magi.”

O. Henry [or William Sydney Porter]

500

Deadweight loss is a consequence of floors or ceilings on this variable, which result in an inefficient vertical gap between levels of this variable on plots of supply and demand curves.

Price

500

Name this director and star of the 1941 film Citizen Kane.

Orson Welles

500

Hera gave Heracles a castanet-like rattle to defeat these animals in the Stymphalian swamp for his sixth labor. Name these animals that attack people in a movie by Alfred Hitchcock.

Birds