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In August of 2014, Twitch was acquired by this corporation for $970 million

What is Amazon?

200

Popularly known as "The King" this rock and roll artist died in 1977 at the age of 42

Who was Elvis Presley?

200

The popular Nintendo character Mario was first debuted in this 1981 videogame

What is Donkey Kong?

200

This common measure of acidity is calculated as the negative log base ten of a solutions hydrogen ion concentration

What is pH?

200

In the 1987 film "The Princess Bride," based on the William Goldman novel of the same name, this character seeks to kill the "six-fingered man" who murdered his father

Who is Inigo Montoya?

400

The streamer whose face is used as the emote TriHard

Who is trihex?

400

An armistice effectively ended this war on the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, 1918

What was World War One?

400

This game has sold 238 million copies to date, surpassing the second best-selling game, GTA V by 78 million copies

What is Minecraft?

400

Rocks formed when a sedimentary rock is exposed to high pressure and temperature deep in the Earth's crust are known collectively as this

What are metamorphic rocks?

400

In the George Orwell novel 1984, the party's slogans include "war is peace", "freedom is slavery", and this "..is strength"

What is ignorance?

600

The emote used as an expression of excitement formerly featuring the face of streamer Gootecks

What is PogChamp?

600

This drug, prescribed for morning sickness in the 1950s and 60s, and later found to cause severe birth defects, was blocked in the United States by FDA pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey

What is thalidomide?

600
The focus of this 2012 FPS is a PVP game mode in which two teams attempt to plant or prevent the planting of a bomb

What is CS:GO?

600

Daily Double: This yellow liquid makes up approximately 55% of human blood with the other 45% being white and red blood cells

What is plasma?

600

The subject of this 1941 film was the meaning of the word "rosebud" uttered by a dying millionaire

What is Citizen Kane?

800

The emote BibleThump, a crying face frequently used to express sadness, is from this videogame

What is The Binding of Isaac?

800

In the 1972-74 Watergate scandal, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein nicknamed their anonymous source this, after a popular pornographic movie of the same name

What is Deep Throat?

800

Released in 1997, this RPG was set in the year 2161, 84 years after a nuclear apocalypse

What is Fallout?

800

This physical law of buoyancy states that a submerged body experiences an upward force equal to the weight of fluid displaced by the object

What is Archimedes' principle?

800

In this play written by William Shakespeare, it is prophesized that "none of woman born" shall harm the titular character

What is Macbeth?

1000

In 2011, Twitch was introduced as a spinoff of this streaming platform focused on videogame content

What is Justin.tv?

1000

In 1967, the US Navy auxiliary technical research ship USS Liberty was attacked and severely damaged in the Mediterranean Sea by air and naval forces of this nation

What is Israel?

1000

A pioneering game in the battle royale genre, this 2017 title was originally created as an ARMA 2 mod in 2013

What is PUBG: Battlegrounds?

1000

This term is used to describe the process by which proteins are created in ribosomes from mRNA templates and is the final step in the "central dogma of molecular biology"

What is translation?

1000

The 1854 poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Tennyson memorialized the charge of the British cavalry intro Russian fire in this European conflict

What was the Crimean War?