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100

The fibrous tissue connects the calf muscles to the calcaneus. It is named after the Greek hero who killed Hector outside of Troy.

What is the Achilles Tendon?

100

The Nobel prize was instituted by this country.

What is Sweden?

100

This transcontinental country (Europe and Asia) spans 11 time zones.

What is Russia?

100

One of the earliest mentions of the idiom "wild goose chase" is when Mercutio says, "Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase" during a conversation with one of the two title characters of this Shakespeare play.

What is Romeo and Juliet?

100

Where the Darling children live in the classic Peter Pan movie.

Where is London?

200

 The nares are another name for this part of your nose that leads into your nasal passages.

What are nostrils?

200

This invention was what the founder of the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel, was most known for.

What is dynamite?

200

 Lake Como and Lake Garda are both located in this Southern European country.

Where is Italy?

200

Iambic pentameter is a type of metric line used in English verse, most famously by William Shakespeare. While "iambic" describes the unstressed/stressed pattern of each two-syllable "foot," the word "pentameter" indicates that there are this many feet within a given line.

What is five?

200

The name of the stepsister in Disney's Cinderella that is always wearing pink.

Who is Anastasia?

300

The human retina contains receptor cells of two different types: rods and ones with this tapered shape.

What are cones?

300

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 for the discovery of penicillin in 1928.

Who is Alexander Fleming?

300

Meaning "under the linden trees," Unter den Linden is a boulevard that runs from the City Palace to the Brandenburg Gate in this world capital city.

Where is Berlin?

300

In this William Shakespeare play the title character dies less than halfway through, with his final words including the immortal line “Et tu, Brute?”.

What is Julius Caesar?

300

This Disney Princess has a star on the walk of fame.

Who is Snow White?

400

This iron containing metalloprotein carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body. It is in the red blood cells of most vertebrate animals.

What is hemoglobin?

400

The youngest Nobel laureate, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 at the age of 17.

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

400

The isthmus of this country connects Costa Rica and Colombia, and therefore, links North America to South America.

What is Panama?

400

Two of Uranus's moons are named Oberon and Titania, after fairy characters from this comedy play by William Shakespeare.

What is A Midsummer Night's Dream?

400

The type of fish Nemo and Marlin are in Finding Nemo.

What is Clownfish?

500

The three smallest bones in the human body are in the ear. They are the stapes, the incus, and another hammer-like ossicle.

What is the malleus?

500

The theory that Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics for.

What is the Photoelectric Effect?

500

The official national flags of Georgia, Bahrain, Monaco, Singapore and Turkey all share these two colors?.

What is Red and White?

500

The impolite, unpleasant Katherina is referred to metaphorically by the name of a small mammal in the name of this Shakespeare play?.

What is The Taming of the Shrew?

500

The names of Simba's two best friends in The Lion King.

Who are Timon and Pumbaa?

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