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What began as a small school that opened in 1838 in Randolph County, N.C. became this university named for a tobacco magnate
What is Duke University?
200
In 1931 "The Star-Spangled Banner" officially became the national anthem, more than a century after it was written during this conflict
What is the War of 1812?
200
This Michigan resort island was once the headquarters of John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company
What is Mackinac?
200
Different velocities of fluids are needed to create this force, so it needs motion, like when planes zoom down runways to take off
What is lift?
200
A perfect number is equal to the sum of its proper divisors; for example, 28 = 1 + 2 + 4 + these 2 integers
What are 7 and 14?
200
This troubled artist considered "A Wheat Field with Cypresses" one of his best landscapes
Who is Van Gogh?
400
In 2020 this Ivy League school in New Jersey dropped Woodrow Wilson's name from 2 institutions
What is Princeton?
400
This marketplace for securities & other investments was formally constituted in the Big Apple in 1817
What is the New York Stock Exchange?
400
The former McCoy Air Force Base gave the code MCO to this airport serving Disney World
What is Orlando?
400
Also a kind of tooth, the sum of the atomic masses in a molecule is called this mass
What is molar mass?
400
(4/3)pir3
is the volume of one of these
What is a sphere?
400
Can't get much more Regency than her dedicating "Emma" to the prince regent--& a 2018 discovery shows he bought a copy
Who is Jane Austen?
600
This East Coast school says it's "obsessed with numbers"; even its janitors are math geniuses, at least onscreen
What is MIT?
600
An 1882 Exclusion Act barred immigrants from this country, though many had built the Central Pacific Railroad
What is China?
600
If you go to this island, you can visit both Hanauma Bay Nature Preserve & the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial
600
Nuclear fusion in the Sun's core produces energy that eventually flows to the photosphere--first, by radiation & then by heat currents using this process, also used in a type of oven
What is convection?
600
This math branch that analyzes random phenomena uses the birthday problem (will 2 folks in a random group have the same birthday?)
What is probability?
600
In this 14th century epic poem, Satan's 3 hideous mouths are observed forever chewing on Judas, Brutus & Cassius
What is Inferno?
800
In 1967 the tech school bearing the name of this man merged with a science research center called the Mellon Institute
What is Carnegie?
800
In 1989, this tanker spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil off Alaska; later, under the name "Oriental Nicety", it was sold for scrap
What is the Exxon Valdez?
800
This fertile & scenic valley covers much of Northern Virginia & a little bit of West Virginia
What is Shenandoah?
800
Despite repulsive electrical forces, atomic nuclei keep it together thanks to the force described with this adjective
What is strong?
800
In coordinate geometry, m represents this measure of a line's inclination
What is the slope?
800
"L'Attente" or "Waiting", showing a seated dancer, is one of his 1880s masterpieces
Who is Degas?
1000
Course fees, an annual stipend of about $25,000 & 2 flights, to & from the U.K., are part of this scholarship at Oxford
What is Rhodes Scholarship?
1000
In the 1920s the real-life Untouchables frequently busted up these illicit saloons named for quiet conversation
1000
A top tourist destination in South Carolina, this coastal city is named for a type of evergreen shrub sacred to Venus
What is Myrtle Beach?
1000
Classical mechanics says that all physical quantities can be known at the same time; this principle, from Werner Heisenberg, sets quantum science apart by saying that the more sure you are of a particle's position, the less sure you are of its momentum
What is the uncertainty principal?
1000
It means to express a fraction in a more basic form, like simplifying 365/730 to 1/2
What is reduce?
1000
Philosophers including Plato appear in Raphael's fresco "School of" this capital city
What is Athens?