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The most common element in the human body

What is oxygen

100

The person credited with inventing the lightbulb

Who is Thomas Edison

100

A term to describe a group of crows

What is a murder

100

The language with the most native speakers currently currently 

 What is (Mandarin) Chinese

100

The movie won the first-ever Oscar for Best Animated Film in 2000

What is shrek

200

This is the hardest naturally occurring substance

What is diamonds

200

The country, which is also known as "Land of the Rising Sun"

What is Japan

200

The only mammal capable of flight

What is a bat

200

This Afro-Asiatic language, arguably the oldest written language on Earth, is a distant relative to the Arabic that replaced it in its home along the Nile.

What is egyptian

200

Younger Gen Z has popularised this existing word to describe people older than them

What is unc

300

This part of your body helps you keep your balance

What is the inner ear

300

A phrase or expression where the meaning cannot be understood from the literal definition of the words (for example, “it’s raining cats and dogs”)

What is an idiom

300

The deadliest creature in the world

What is the mosquito 

300

The language in the Caribbean islands, known as broken French

What is creole

300

The name of the baby pygmy hippo from Thailand who went viral in 2024

Who is Moo Deng

400

The age of the universe

What is about 13.8 billion years old

400

An explosive event that marks the dramatic end of a massive star’s life cycle 

What is a supernova

400

The number of flowers honey bees have to visit to produce one pound (450g) of honey

What is 2 million

400

The country with the smallest population in the world

What is Vatican City

400

The athlete holding the record for the most Olympic medals

Who is Michael Phelps

500

The material of which chalk made out of

What is limestone

500

The term for a baby kangaroo

What is a joey

500

A big cat is known as "The ghost of the mountain."

What is a snow leopard

500

The 2nd Amendment of the United States

What is the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

500

A new film to be directed by Greta Gerwig, based on which beloved children’s book series by C.S. Lewis

What is the Chronicles of Narnia / Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

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