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ALIENS???
100

The name of this little guy. Hint: what would you name him?


What is the (greater) Yellowlegs?

100

This disease is caused by mutations of the Von Hippel–Lindau tumor suppressor (VHL) gene on the short arm of chromosome 3.

What is Von Hippel-Lindau disease?

100

The Pearlfish is a slender fish who sticks himself into the bunghole of this other, not so welcoming but otherwise incapable of defending itself, sea critter for its own safety.

What is a sea cucumber?


Fun fact: Like all echinoderms, sea cucumbers possess pentaradial symmetry, with their bodies divided into five nearly identical parts around a central axis. However, because of their posture, they have secondarily evolved a degree of bilateral symmetry.

100

Ariana Grande's first controversy

What is licking display donuts in a pastry shop and saying "I hate America"?

100

A real UFO hoax or a frisbee.

What is Fwibeeeee?

200

This Florida bird's beak shape is curved and long, and it forages for insects in groups. I found one dead on the road last year.

White Ibis

200

Amyloidosis is when _____ change shape and then clump together to form amyloid fibrils in the body.

What are proteins?

200

This sea creature was found to be more mobile than previously assumed when scientists discovered that its cells eventually rearrange themselves around the body constantly.

Hint: They are of the phylum Porifera and their feeding cells span all along the body, they pick up food using flagella.

What are sea sponges?

200

A UK-born Vaudevillian, his first feature-length film was The Kid, which continued into a long and captivating career in filmmaking.

Who is Charlie Chaplin?

200

A real alien romance novel cover or a regular old fake meme.

WHAT IS REAL?

300

This bird can be found in your lawn and has a charming name.


Tufted Titmouse

300

This psychological disorder is characterized by the “overwhelming desire to amputate healthy parts of [the] body.”

Apotemnophilia

300

This mammal is undoubtedly a key contributing factor to the industrial revolution.

What are Sperm Whales?

300

This California journalist and nominee for governor likely lost because of the world's first smear campaign in which oppositional research tactics and mass emailing and advertising were employed to massive success.

Who is Upton Sinclair?

300

A fish or an alien hoax image.

FISH?

400

This weird looking baby bird will grow up to kill animals by squeezing or drowning its prey.

What is a Cooper's Hawk?

400

This disease may have the following symptoms:

  • Frequent falls.
  • Difficulty rising from a lying or sitting position.
  • Trouble running and jumping.

Note: its cause is not neurological.


What is muscular dystrophy?

400

It was thought that these slithery sea creatures were a separate order from their same-named, morphologically similar animals; however, they are now considered the same order: Anguilliformes, and they are the only representative of the genus Eurypharynx and the family Eurypharyngidae. Anguilliformes means "sack throat".

What are Pelican/Gulper Eels?

400

This "rugged" actor received the most razzies.

Who is Sylvester Stallone?

400

A real alien romance novel cover or a fake.


What is REAL?

Synopsis:

Doctor Raven Glass is an expert in alien medicine and is called to the planet of Xulara to help its dying queen. With all of the planet's resources at her disposal she is able to nurse queen Ozhenia back to health, but snagged the heart of the prince along the way.

With things heating up between Prince Eoch and the doctor, all seems on the up and up until the king returns to find things not as he wished. Determined to have his son live the life he wants, he banishes Dr. Glass back to Earth where she is bearing much more than a broken heart.

500

An large water-wading bird that sounds like a chainsaw was just woken from a nap (Mara will now demonstrate)

What is a Great Blue Heron?

500

This rare X-linked recessive genetic disorder includes the symptom of involuntary, destructive behaviors. They often self-mutilate and do the opposite of what they're trying to do, like Edgar Allan Poe's "the imp of the perverse".

What is Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome?

500

This illustration is a humanoid character version of a much more slim and long real-life sea creature.


What is a bobbit worm?

"Using five antennae, the bobbit worm senses passing prey, snapping down on them with supremely muscled mouth parts, called a pharynx... What happens next is rather unknown, especially because they have not been observed directly"

500

This 19th-century poet died at 25 years old after being advised by a doctor to eat only a single anchovy and a piece of toast as a single daily meal as part of treatment while he was suffering, and eventually dying from, tuberculosis.

Who is John Keats?

500

This alien romance drama sci fi novel cover is either part of a real, published well-loved series or a photoshopped joke.


What is a real alien romance drama sci-fi novel cover?

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