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This organelle is commonly described as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the Mitochondria?
The plastic or metal tip at the end of a shoelace has this name.
What is Aglet?
The fictional infection in The Last of Us is based on fungi from this real genus.
What is Cordyceps?
This is the year Miss Benger was born
What is 1998?
This country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States.
What is France?
This musical tells the story of American founding father found on a ten dollar bill.
What is Hamilton?
This is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight.
What is a Bat?
This word describes the distinctive earthy smell released when rain falls on dry ground.
What is Petrichor?
This Studio Ghibli film is the only non-English-language film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
What is Spirited Away?
A job that Miss Benger had before being a teacher.
- Retail worker (Shoes, Clothes, Bags and Travel)
- Laboratory Technician
- Office clerk for a Frozen goods delivery service
This is the smallest country in the world by land area.
What is Vatican City?
In Wicked, this green-skinned character becomes known as the Wicked Witch of the West.
Who is Elphaba?
A solution with a pH of 2 is this many times more acidic than a solution with a pH of 5.
What is 1000 times?
The dot above a lowercase i or j has this name.
What is a Tittle?
This actor voices King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph, the Duke of Weselton in Frozen and K-2SO in Rogue One.
For bonus points - Name the character he plays in Moana
Who is Alan Tudyk?
Bonus: Who is Hei Hei?
This is a job Miss Benger would have had, if she had not chosen teaching.
Answers will vary.
The Latin names by which Silver and Gold were referred.
What is Aurum and Argentum?
This musical, based loosely on the opera La Bohème, follows struggling artists living in New York City.
What is Rent?
This analytical technique separates charged protein fragments through a gel according mainly to their size.
What is Gel Electrophoresis?
The metal or plastic sleeve at the end of a pencil that holds the eraser is called this.
What is a ferrule?
Among the original members of Team Avatar, this character is the only one born without bending abilities.
Who is Sokka?
A slogan Miss Benger commonly uses.
- I like waffles but not in my scientific reports
Other answers will vary.
The word ‘quarantine’ comes from an Italian phrase referring to this number of days.
What is 40?
In this musical, a vengeful barber murders his customers while his accomplice bakes them into meat pies.
What is Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street?
This number identifies the amount of energy needed to remove one mole of electrons from one mole of gaseous atoms.
What is Ionisation energy?
The small crescent-shaped white area at the base of a fingernail has this name.
What is lunula?
First recorded for the 1951 film Distant Drums, this famous sound has since appeared in Star Wars, Indiana Jones and hundreds of other films.
What is the Wilhelm scream?
This is the date of Miss Benger's birthday
What is 25th April?
This African country has more ancient pyramids than Egypt.
What is Sudan?
In Six, this queen performs the solo “I Don’t Need Your Love.”
Who is Catherine Parr?