| Time | Space | Soul | Power | Mind | Reality | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | Doc Brown from Back to the Future builds a time machine out of what kind of car? Answer: DeLorean | Which non-dwarf planet is furthest from the Sun? Answer: Neptune | The R&B soul band Earth Wind and Fire famously sings about which calendar month? Answer: September | What is the SI unit of power? Answer: Watt | What song about opening your mind to wonder does Willy Wonka sing? Answer: Pure Imagination | What reality TV show involves many single women fighting for the heart of one man? Answer: The Bachelor |
| Medium | What is the formal name of the 365 day calendar (coined in 1582)? Answer: Gregorian | On which famous constellation does the North Star lie? Answer: Little Dipper | Dementors can take your soul by giving you a ____? Answer: Kiss | The three Powerpuff girls are named Bubbles, Blossom, and _____. Answer: Buttercup | What restful yoga pose typically serves as a break between challenging positions? Answer: Child's pose | Name the artist who sang the following verse: "Snap back to reality, oh there goes gravity" Answer: Eminem |
| Hard | Miles Davis covered which popular Cyndi Lauper tune? Answer: Time After Time | Cygnus X-1 is one of these dense astronomical phenomenons. Answer: Black Hole | The Symposium written by this famous Greek philsopher has Aristophanes tell a famous story about the origins of soulmates. Answer: Plato | Oedipus Rex comes to power in Thebes after solving the Spinx's riddle with a one word answer. What is that word? (Hint: What is the creature that walks on four legs in the morning, two legs at noon and three in the evening?) Answer: Man | Billy Joel famously sung what song at a benefit concert honoring those who died during the 9/11 attacks? Answer: New York State of Mind | In 2010, Palmer Luckey designed the first prototype of what virtual reality headset? Answer: Oculus Rift |
| Harder than hard | The Egyptians were the first to use this device which uses the sun's position to tell the time. Answer: Sundial | Whose laws deal with orbits, areas, and periods? Answer: Kepler | What popular piano duet involves a, and is famously known for its, 50s progression. (Also represented as I–VI–IV–V or doo-wop) Answer: Heart and Soul | What famous activist group used the slogan "All Power to the People" to protest the rich, ruling class domination of society. Answer: The Black Panthers | The Indian monk Bodhidharma brought what form of Buddhism to China in the 6th century? Answer: Zen | Latitude is to parallel as longitude is to ____. Answer: Meridian |
| Harder than harder than hard | What famous mathmatical surface offers an intrepretation of how time is twisted in the Grandmother paradox? Answer: Mobius Strip | The planet named "55 Cancri e" was once theorized to contain a large abundance of what rare mineral? Answer: Diamond | What famous 1967 song was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress a few months ago? Answer: Soul Man | Which Game of Thrones character says "Power resides where men believe it resides. It's a trick; a shadow on the wall."? (The key is NOT Lord, Lady, King, or Queen) Answer: Varys | In the late 19th century the five Creery Sisters were tested by the Society for Psychical Research for what ability? Answer: Telepathy | Whose album, Reality, did BBC praise as "a proper album, with a beginning, a middle and an end"? Answer: David Bowie |
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