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100

Adults have 206 of these but human babies have around 300 

What are bones

100

In 1984 this sci-fi character only had 21 lines, totaling a measly 133 words, throughout the entire movie

Who is the Terminator

100

Following the strict order of operations (PEMDAS), you must solve the parentheses first to find that 48 ÷ (4 × 2) simplifies to this number.

What is 6

100

This is the term for a word that sounds exactly like the noise it describes, such as a bee's "buzz" or water's "splash".

What is onomatopoeia 

100

In a standard game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, this is the only hand sign that can defeat a piece of paper.

What is scissors

200

This process is how a caterpillar completely liquifies its body inside a chrysalis to rebuild itself into a butterfly 

What is metamorphosis  

200

Long before modern rubber this everyday food item was used as a eraser 

What is bread

200

If you have a standard pair of six-sided dice, this specific total has the highest statistical probability of being rolled.

What is 7

200

"A God Buys Us Cheeseburgers" is the memorable Chapter 11 title found in this author's mythological fiction book, The Lightning Thief.

Who is Rick Riordan 

200

Though it sounds like a delicious breakfast side dish, this classic gym class activity involves a massive, multi-colored nylon sheet that everyone lifts into the air to sit inside.

What is a parachute

300

This is the only continent with absolutely zero active volcanoes 

What is Australia

300

This ancient, 4,000-mile network of trade routes connected China to the Mediterranean, passing along silk, spices, and even the bubonic plague

What is Silk Road

300

This 3-letter computer science term represents the absolute smallest possible unit of digital memory, storing a value of either 0 or 1.

What is a bit 

300

While standard grammar tells us the plural of "criterion" is "criteria", this is the correct plural form of the word "spectrum".

What is spectra 

300

This playground game, where players try to stay inside a wooden octagonal pit while hitting a ball at each other's legs, gets its name from the Hebrew word for "touch-touch".

What is ga-ga ball

400

Because it is the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise a telescope on this planet would watch the sunrise in the west

What is Venus

400

In 1325, two rival Italian city-states (Bologna and Modena) literally went to war over the theft of this ordinary, wooden bathroom object.

What is a bucket

400

If you write out numbers as words (one, two, three...), this is the very first number that actually contains the letter "A".

What is one thousand 

400

This 10-letter linguistic term describes a word like "racecar", "kayak", or "noon" that reads exactly the same backward as it does forward.

What is a palindrome

400

Invented by a physical education teacher in 1891, the very first targets used in the game of basketball weren't metal hoops, but actually baskets meant for holding this fruit.

What are peaches

500

This is the specific biological name of the colored part of your eye that controls how much light gets in - it also shares a name with a Greek goddess 

What is Iris

500

King Henry VIII famously hired staff members called "Grooms of the Stool," whose highly prestigious daily job was to help the King do this.

What is use the bathroom 

500

This mathematical concept represents a shape that has a finite area but an infinite perimeter—often visualized using snowflakes or coastlines. (Also referenced in the song "Let it go" from Frozen) 

What is a fractal 

500

This is the real, dictionary-defined term for the dynamic punctuation mark created when you smash a question mark and an exclamation mark together (‽).

What is an interrobang 

500

If you are playing a standard game of Four Square, this is the official title given to the highest-ranking square on the board that gets to serve the ball.

What is king

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