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100

This movie is the first to be filmed fully on IMAX 70mm.

The Odyssey dir. by Christopher Nolan

100

This is the location of the famous half dome

Yosemite

100

Adamant

unyielding

100

Peter Parker was portrayed by these three actors.

Who are Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Toby Maguire?

100

This animal has three hearts.

What is an octopus?


200

At the 2017 Oscars, this film was mistakingly awarded Best Picture over Moonlight.

La La Land

200

This is the location of the Blarney Stone

Ireland

200

Onerous

burdensome

200

An order of knights in Monty Python and the Holy Grail are characterized by this monosyllabic utterance.

What is "ni"?

200

This animal has a tongue that can weigh as much as an adult elephant.

What is a blue whale?

300

This artist talks about the daughter she gave up in a song entitled Little Green.

Joni Mitchell

300

The location of Ayers Rock, also called Uluru

The Australian Outback (Australia works too)

300

Sacrosanct

sacred

300

This character leads Gungan society in Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace.

Who is Boss Nass?

300

This national animal of Korea has been extinct from the Korean peninsula since 1940.

What is a Siberian tiger?

400

This iconic British television show was recently put out to tender.

What is Dr. Who?

400

This is the location of the Giant's Causeway

Northern Ireland

400

Omnibus

bus

400

This is Heron's Formula.

A = sqrt(s(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)) where A is the area of a triangle with side lengths a, b, and c and s = (a+b+c)/2

400

This marine animal can theoretically reset its life cycle an infinite number of times, returning to its polyp stage when it gets old.

What is an immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii)?

500

This female celebrity has famously given away over 3 million books to children worldwide.

Who is Dolly Parton through the Imagination Library?

500

This is the location of Devil's Tower

Wyoming

500
Tenebrous

dark and gloomy

500

Name two official dwarf planets in our solar system.

What is Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, or Ceres?

500

This animal is known to shrink its bones and skeletons to survive harsh conditions (there are two acceptable answers).

What is the shrew?

What is the marine iguana?

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