The Planets
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200
Iron oxide in the soil gives this planet its signature rust-red color.
What is Mars?
200
In the human eye, this opening in the iris expands in the dark to let in more light, and contracts in brighter environments to let in less light.
What is the pupil?
200
In 2010, M. Night Shyamalan directed a poorly received live-action adaptation of this Nickelodeon animated series.
What is Avatar: The Last Airbender?
200
The flag of this state features a portrait of the president it's named after.
What is Washington?
200
x = 4 - x
What is 2?
400
In 1610, Galileo Galilei used a self-made telescope to discover the four largest moons of this enormous planet.
What is Jupiter?
400
An object of this color will absorb all of the light that reaches it.
What is black?
400
The worst films of the year are "honored" at the Golden Raspberry Awards, or Razzies, annually on the day before these more prestigious awards are given.
What are the Academy Awards?
400
The Big Dipper and the North Star are appropriate for the flag of this northernmost state.
What is Alaska?
400
3(x + 1) = 18
What is 5?
600
The temperature on this planet can reach highs of 800°F in the day and -290°F at night, due to its slow rotation and closeness to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
600
Our atmosphere's ozone layer makes life on Earth possible by blocking 98% of this type of invisible light known for causing sunburns.
What is ultraviolet light?
600
This 1993 movie based on a Nintendo video game starred John Leguizamo and Bob Hoskins, who calls the movie "the worst thing I ever did."
What is Super Mario Bros.?
600
This U.S. territory - currently debating statehood - has a similar flag design to that of nearby Cuba, but with the color scheme of the American flag.
What is Puerto Rico?
600
sqrtx = 7
What is 49?
800
This seventh planet from the Sun rotates at a 98-degree angle, spinning practically sideways.
What is Uranus?
800
Many phone and computer displays have filters that can reduce the level of this color of light, often associated with sleep problems.
What is blue?
800
Variety called this 2019 musical adaptation "every bit the Jellicle catastrophe the haters anticipated, a half-digested hairball of a movie".
What is Cats?
800
This western state's flag includes a beehive, used as a symbol of working together by the Mormon church.
What is Utah?
800
x^3 = -8
What is -2?
1000
With only a few exceptions, all geographic features on this planet are named after women.
What is Venus?
1000
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Sunlight can be separated into rainbows of color by water droplets in the air, or transparent pieces of glass - two types of this refracting object.
What is a prism?
1000
This 2017 animated film starring TJ Miller and Patrick Stewart received a 6% on the Rotten Tomatoes website, which simply wrote "🚫" as the critics' consensus.
What is The Emoji Movie?
1000
This state beginning with O has the country's only non-rectangular state flag.
What is Ohio?
1000
(3x)/4 = 75
What is 100?