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100

Jim Davis created this lasagna-loving cat who first appeared in papers in 1978.

What is Garfield?

100

This insect undergoes a four-stage metamorphosis, transforming from a striped caterpillar into an orange-and-black-winged adult.

What is a monarch butterfly?

100

This lightest element in the universe has the atomic number 1.

What is Hydrogen?

100

The lion is the only big cat that lives in these groups.

What is a pride?

100

Borrowing from the word “charisma,” this slang term measures someone’s apparent skill at attracting or charming others.

What is rizz?

200

This strip's title character is often accompanied by his imaginary tiger.

What is Calvin and Hobbes?

200

This industrious insect can lift objects many times its own body weight and lives in colonies led by a queen.

What is an ant?

200

This radioactive element, symbol U, is used as fuel in nuclear reactors.

This radioactive element, symbol U, is used as fuel in reactors.

200

This big cat is the largest of all wild cats and is famously the mascot of Tony the Tiger's cereal brand.

What is the Tiger

200

This term is used when someone who is in some sort of trouble or can refer to losing.

What is cooked?

300

This strip ran for nearly 50 years and ended in 2000 with a farewell that aired in over 2,600 newspapers simultaneously.

What is Peanuts?

300

This insect communicates the location of food to its hive-mates through a figure-eight "waggle dance."

What is a honeybee?

300

This aesthetic element's symbol, Au, comes from its Latin name "aurum."

What is Gold?

300

This spotted cat can't roar, and instead purrs like a house cat, due to the structure of its throat.

What is a cheetah?

300

This phrase refers to revealing drama or or potentially negative information.

What is "spilling the tea"?

400

This strip's bespectacled office drone navigates the absurdity of corporate life.

What is Dilbert?

400

This insect spends most of its life underground as a nymph, sometimes for as long as 17 years, before emerging to molt and chrip.

What is a cicada?

400

This element, symbol Hg, is the only metal that's liquid at room temperature.

What is Mercury?

400

This big cat has the strongest bite force relative to body size of any cat, capable of piercing turtle shells.

What is a jaguar?

400

This term is used to describe someone acting delusional.

What is delulu?

500

"ACK" is the signature phrase of this woman, when overwhelmed with work or life.

Who is Cathy?

500

This insect is really a beetle, despite its name, and it produces light through a chemical reaction called bioluminescence.

What is the firefly (lightning bug)?

500

 This extremely dense metal, symbol W, can be used in jewelry as an alternative to gold, is nearly as heavy as gold itself.

What is Tungsten?

500

This big cat is a champion swimmer, unlike most cats, and is often seen wading into rivers and lakes to cool off or hunt.

What is a tiger?

500

This two-word term refers to content that harmful to the mind, mass produced at low quality, or as a condition for someone who consumes "slop" content.

What is brain rot?

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