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100

Which treaty ended WWI?

The Treaty of Versailles

100

What was the name of the event that FDR later called "A date that will live in infamy'?

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

100

“That’s my secret, Cap. I’m always angry.”

The Avengers

100

What is the geometric structure that describes spacetime curvature in general relativity?

The Lorentzian manifold

100

Master Chief is the main character of which video game franchise?

Halo

200

Which U.S. President proposed the Fourteen Points and the League of Nations?

Woodrow Wilson

200

What was the event that finally pulled the United States out of the Great Depression?

World War II

200

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

Spider-man

200

Which nihilistic philosophical thinker wrote the novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra?

Friedrich Nietzsche

200

What is the largest internal organ in the human body?

The liver

300

What was the triggering event that caused the United States to fall into the Great Depression?

The Stock Market Crash of 1929

300

What was the name of the Japanese code that essentially meant "Death before dishonor"?

Bushido

300

“This is Sparta!”

300

300

What principle explains why clocks run slower in stronger gravitational fields?

Gravitational time dilation

300

Before making high end exotic super cars, Lamborghini first made what kind of machinery?

Tractors

400

The Zimmerman Telegram was sent by the Germans to which country, before it was intercepted by the British?

Mexico

400

Name the two cities that the United States dropped the atomic bombs on.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

400

“On Wednesdays we wear pink.”

Mean Girls

400

Which mathematical concept describes shapes as invariant under continuous deformation? 

Topology

400

What U.S. city is nicknamed "The Big Easy"?

New Orleans

500

Many soldiers in WWI experienced a form of PTSD known as...?

Shell shock

500

What was the number of the Executive order that forced Japanese Americans into internment camps?

Executive Order 9066

500

"Say hello to my little friend!"

Scarface

500

What are the three parts of Agrippa's trilemma in regards to the epistemic crises of belief and faith justification fallacies? (Hint: think axiomatic infinitism in regards to Pyrrhonian tradition)

Infinite regress, circular reasoning, or dogmatic assumption.

500

Which animal has blue blood and three hearts?

Octopus