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While the "Game of Thrones" series overall has an 89% positive score on this review aggregation platform, its eighth season now sits at 55% (with the audience "Popcornometer" at 30% positive)

Rotten Tomatoes

100

This mountain range is generally accepted as the border between Europe and Asia

Ural Mountains

100

In the 1986 Chicago classic film "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," Ferris and friends visit this building, which they remark as "the tallest building in the world" (a title it did hold at that time)

Sears Tower (also accept Willis Tower)

100

This organelle found in animal, plant, and fungi cells produces ATP (ademosine triphosphate) which supplies chemical energy to the rest of the cell. It sure is a powerhouse!

Mitochondrion (accept Mitochondria)

100

The fourth-most populous city in Virginia

RICHmond

200

This actress plays Daenerys Targaryen, the heir of the Targaryen dynasty

Emilia Clarke

200

This hypersaline lake's shores are the lowest points on Earth, at nearly 1500 feet below sea level

Dead Sea

200

This building, currently the third-tallest in the city and the tallest in the world architected by a woman, is covered with six colors of glass so as to mimic the various colors in the waves of the Chicago River

St. Regis Hotel

200

This greenhouse gas is causing 3/4 of global warming in the current climate crisis

Carbon Dioxide (CO₂)

200

A large flightless bird of either Sub-Saharan or Somali origin

OstRICH

300

"Game of Thrones" was a TV adaptation of the "A Song of Ice and Fire" book series by this American author

George R. R. Martin

300

This Canadian island province has the smallest population and land area but highest population density across Canada

Prince Edward Island (PEI)

300

The Cloud Gate sculpture, colloquially known as "the Bean," was designed by this British artist, who faced controversy for copyrighting the super-dark pigment Vantablack

Anish Kapoor

300

Assuming gravity acts at 10 m/s^2 and ignoring air resistance, this is the distance a ball would drop in one second

5 meters

300

The author of "Jurassic Park"

Michael CRICHton

400

After HBO turned its filming locations there into tourist attractions, this UK constituent country attributed a sixth of its overall tourism to "Game of Thrones" alone

Northern Ireland

400

La Rinconada, a town located high up in the Andes in this country, is the highest settlement in the world, clocking in at more than 16,500 feet above sea level

Peru

400

This Chicago-based department store entrepreneur was also the main initial benefactor of the third-most-visited museum in Chicago

Marshall Field

400

In our solar system, this planet is the furthest from the sun that doesn't have any moons

Venus

400

The smell of rain, or Greek for "stone blood"

PetRICHor

500

A 2011 article by the New York Times cites this 15th century English conflict between the houses of Lancaster and York as a key inspiration for the overarching conflicts of "Game of Thrones"

War of the Roses

500

A portion of this country on the Arabian peninsula temporarily seceded earlier this year, though it reunified within a week

Yemen

500

This man became the first African-American mayor of Chicago in 1983, previously serving in the Illinois House, Illinois Senate, and US House

Harold Washington

500

The chemical reaction described by 2 H₂ + O₂ -> 2 H₂O is an example of this kind of reaction

Combustion

500

The southeastern Dutch city known as the birthplace of the Euro

MaastRICHt

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