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100

This is the name of UMass Amherst's student newspaper

What is The Massachusetts Daily Collegian?

100

Which high school subject did Walter White teach in Breaking Bad?

What is Chemistry?

100
  • Born in South Africa
  • Founded SpaceX
  • Became CEO of Tesla
  • Has been involved in major developments in electric vehicles and spaceflight


Who is Elon Musk?
100

Who was president during the Civil War?

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

Plants use this process to convert light energy into chemical energy

What is photosynthesis?

200

UMass Amherst's campus is part of this geographic region known for the Connecticut River Valley

What is the Pioneer Valley?


200

What is the name of the alternate dimension in Netflix’s Stranger Things?

What is the Upside Down?
200
  • Played Hermione Granger
  • Attended Brown University
  • Became known for advocating for gender equality
  • Served as a UN Women Goodwill Ambassador

Who is Emma Watson?

200

This Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great

Who is Artistole?

200

This process describes water changing from a liquid into a gas

What is evaporation?

300

UMass Amherst's athletic teams compete in this NCAA Division I conference

What is the Atlantic 10 Conference?

300

Who were the winners of Too Hot to Handle Season 6

Who are Bri Balram and Demari Davis?

300
  • Was born in Mississippi in 1920
  • Became one of the most influential writers of the 20th century
  • Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Who is Maya Angelou?

300

This English scientist developed the theory of evolution by natural selection independently of Alfred Russel Wallace

Who is Charles Darwin?

300

This molecule in red blood cells binds oxygen and gives blood much of its red color

What is hemoglobin?

400

The W. E. B. Du Bois Library is notable for being approximately this many feet tall, making it one of the tallest academic library buildings in the world? (+/- 10 feet)

What is about 286 feet?

400

Which pop star's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta?

Who is Lady Gaga?

400
  • Was born in Mississippi in 1920
  • Became one of the most influential writers of the 20th century
  • Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Who is Maya Angelou?

400

This 1961 invasion attempt of Cuba was organized by Cuban exiles with U.S. support.

What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

400

This atmospheric layer contains the majority of Earth's ozone

What is the stratosphere?

500

UMass Amherst became the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system after the university's name was changed from Massachusetts Agricultural College to this name in 1931

What is Massachusetts State College?


500

What are the names of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s kids?

What are North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm?

500
  • He was born in the Kingdom of Kongo in the 19th century.
  • He became one of the first African Americans to earn a medical degree from Harvard.
  • He was an important educator and physician.
  • His work focused heavily on racial inequality and public health

Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?

500

This sweetener was prized in ancient Egypt and was sometimes placed in tombs as part of burial offerings

What is honey?

500

This principle of population genetics states that allele and genotype frequencies remain constant from generation to generation when evolutionary forces such as mutation, selection, and migration are absent

What is the Hardy-Weinberg principle?