BIOLOGY
This green pigment in plants absorbs light energy for photosynthesis, giving leaves their color.
What is chlorophyll?
This Mexican holiday on November 1–2 honors deceased loved ones with altars, marigolds, and offerings.
Name this author who won the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award in Fantasy for The Wind Through the Keyhole, and also wrote the thriller It.
Who is Stephen King?
Samuel Jackson requested a purple one of these things for his character, and one of these kyber-crystal powered weapons with a cross guard is owned by Kylo Ren.
What is a lightsaber?
The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception concerns this figure, whose titles include "Queen of Heaven". Catholics affirm the “perpetual virginity" of, for 10 points, what mother of Jesus?
Who is Mary?
This mammal uses echolocation to navigate and hunt insects at night, and is the only flying mammal.
What is a bat?
This country controls Easter Island and has a capital at Santiago.
What is Chile?
Name this author who won the 2015 Goodreads Choice Award in Fiction for Go Set a Watchman. She also wrote the quintessential American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Harper Lee?
Name this gorilla who lived in the Cincinnati Zoo. He was killed after spending several minutes carrying around a child who climbed into his enclosure.
Who is Harambe?
According to legend, this modern race gets its name from the site where a Greek messenger began his fabled run to announce victory over the Persians.
What is a marathon?
Tiny structures inside cells that assemble amino acids.
What are ribosomes?
This economically critical canal, completed in 1914, connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Panama Canal?
Name this author who won the 2024 Goodreads Choice Award in Young Adult Fiction for the fifth volume of her hit graphic novel series, Heartstopper.
Who is Alice Oseman?
These objects explode when placed in the Nether, and are tied to a player's ability to respawn in a Hypixel mini game called this object Wars.
What are beds?
This Norse trickster god, father to the eight-legged Sleipnir and brother to Thor, was imprisoned for tricking Hodr into throwing a mistletoe spear at Baldr.
Who is Loki?
This biome, found near the equator, has high rainfall, warm temperatures, and the greatest biodiversity.
What is a rainforest?
This revolutionary led Cuba from 1959, survived the Bay of Pigs invasion, and allied with the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Name this Greek Goddess who titles the 2018 Goodreads Choice Award in Fantasy winner, written by Madeline Miller.
What musical, based off a Gregory Maguire book, was composed by Stephen Schwartz and features the song Defying Gravity?
What is Wicked?
This figure was transformed into a monster after Poseidon assaulted her at a temple to Athena, and was slain by Perseus. Identify this gorgon whose gaze petrified men.
Who is Medusa?
This enzyme unwinds DNA at replication forks, breaking hydrogen bonds between strands to allow synthesis.
What is DNA helicase?
Thousands of mothers continue to gather in this country’s Plaza de Mayo, mourning the loss of their children during the Guerra Sucia.
What is Argentina?
Name this author who won the 2013 Goodreads Choice Award in Young Adult Fiction for Eleanor & Park, and who also wrote the Simon Snow series and Landline.
Who is Rainbow Rowell?
Many scenes in A Streetcar Named Desire take place while some of the characters are playing this game. Cassius Coolidge painted dogs playing this card game, whose variants include Texas Hold'em.
What is poker?
This muse is commonly associated with astronomy and inspiration of astronomers. This deity is commonly depicted with an astrolabe and/or a celestial globe.
Who is Urania?
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