Mushrooms
Body systems
Max lore
Electronics
Bugs
100

Button and cremini are other names for this common mushroom.

What is portabello?

100

This allergy indicator is also a key neurotransmitter responsible for alertness.

What is histamine.

100

Max's favourite colour.

What is green? 

100

This type of battery is heavy and toxic but cheat and supports unlimited charge cycles. 

What is lead acid. 

100

After mating the female of this species eats the males head

 praying mantis 

200

These red and white mushrooms were traditionally processed by reindeer to neutralize their toxic compounds. 

What is amanita muscaria?

200

This amino acid found in msg activates neuron signalling and is reduced by gaba. 

What is glutamate?

200

In 2022 an online right wing cult tried to convince me to move to this country. 

What is mexico? 

200

The logic gate used in ssd memory. 

What is NAND?

200

Rather than building hives these bees dig their home into wood

Carpenter bee

300

This mushroom uses ants to climb to high places and spread its spores. 

What is cordyceps?

300

This non-essential amino acid named after it's high concentration in meat stores extra energy - and water - for short periods of heavy exertion. 

What is creatine?

300

In 2021 max made a 15x return in 1 week, enough to cover a term of school, on this stock. 

What is GameStop?

300

This part, used in watches, has a very arcane sounding name. 

What is a timing crystal? 

300

This green invasive species has devasted the North American woodlands 

Emerald ash borer 😡😡😡

400

This prized mushroom with a hollow stem forms a symbiotic relationship with a tree and always comes back in the same place each year. 

What are morels?

400

Estrogen and testosterone are converted to this stimulating but pro-inflammatory hormone during periods of high stress? 

What is cortisol.
400

The age when I started wearing glasses, which I stopped when I was 19

What is 7?

400

This click part let's a small amount of current control a large current without any contact between the circuits. 

What is a relay

400

In an experiment involving tiny stilts these bugs were shown to be able to count and measure distance 

Ants

500

The oldest known cultivated mushroom that grows on fallen hardwood, drop the wood to make it sprout. 

What is shiitake?

500

This electrolyte is used to give muscle cells the signal to contract, requiring potassium and magnesium to reverse its effect. 

What is sodium? 

500

I minored in this during university. 

What is philosophy? 

500

Applying reverse polarity to an electrolytic capacity causes this to happen. 

Explosion

500

This imposter butterfly is named for someone who has ruling in place of a monarch

Viceroy 

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