Italian mountaineer and explorer Reinhold Messner became the first person to complete a solo ascent of this peak without the aid of supplemental oxygen
What is Mount Everest?
100
This avuncular Duck Dynasty star released an autobiography entitled Si-cology 1
Who is Silas "Uncle Si" Robertson?
100
It is believed that this library of antiquity was founded by Ptolemy, one of the Diadochi succeeding Alexander the Great
What is the Library of Alexandria?
100
Lateral, touchback, two-point conversion
What is American football?
100
This father of psychoanalysis was said to be terrified of the number 62, the age at which he feared he would die; fortunately for him, he lived to the ripe old age of 83
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
In 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball when he signed with this team
Who are the Brooklyn Dodgers?
200
Subtitle of the 1991 film Star Trek VI
What is the Undiscovered Country?
200
When he wasn't mentoring Buffy the Vampire Slayer as her "Watcher," this character worked as a librarian
Who is Rupert Giles?
200
Battery, infield fly rule, RBIs
What is baseball?
200
She played Steve Carell's partner, Agent 99, in the 2008 film Get Smart
Who is Anne Hathaway?
300
In 2015, Tu Youyou became the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel Prize, specifically in the Physiology/Medicine department, for discovering the artemisinin treatment of this parasitic mosquito-spread disease
What is malaria?
300
The title of this 1964 song by the Drifters was an antithetical reference to their earlier 1962 song "Up on the Roof"
What is "Under the Boardwalk?"
300
Either of the two major classification systems utilized by libraries
What is the Dewey Decimal system or the Library of Congress system?
300
Apron, condor, mulligan
What is golf?
300
Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison & Amy Winehouse all died at this seemingly cursed age
What is 27?
400
This Norwegian chess prodigy is the highest-rated chess player in history, having reached a peak FIDE rating of 2882 in May of 2014
Who is Magnus Carlsen?
400
"Unaneled" is an archaic Roman Catholic term describing an individual who has died without receiving the anointing of the sick, a sacrament once called "extreme" this
What is unction?
400
Comedic actress who portrayed Mrs. Hushbaum, the loud-mouthed librarian on the Nickelodeon TV show All That
Who is Lori-Beth Denberg?
400
Address, anchor, Woolworth
What is bowling?
400
She holds the No. 1 spot on the list of best-selling authors still living; and no, it's not J. K. Rowling
Who is Danielle Steel?
500
The "Father of the Green Revolution," this agronomist developed a hardy strain of wheat credited with saving over one billion people from starvation; his efforts made him one of only seven people in history to have won the Nobel Peace Prize, the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal
Who is Norman Borlaug?
500
Roentgenium, the chemical element with atomic number 111, originally used this placeholder name before being officially named for the discoverer of x-rays
What is Unununium?
500
One of the world's largest film libraries and archives, this "national" cinematic cornucopia designed by architect Frank Gehry is headquartered in Paris
What is the Cinémathèque Française?
500
Cesta, fronton, pelota
What is jai alai?
500
This motorcycle club is sometimes known as "the 81"