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100

One of six planets are visible to the naked eye.

What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn?

100

One of 7 noble gasses. 

What are: helium (He), neon (Ne), argon (Ar), krypton (Kr), xenon (Xe), radon (Rn), and oganesson (Og)?

100

How to say "quantum" in spanish.

What is "cuántica" or "cuántico"?

100

The name of a scientist in this image: 

Who are: 

From back to front and from left to right :

Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph Howard Fowler, Léon Brillouin,

Peter Debye, Martin Knudsen, William Lawrence Bragg, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Paul Dirac, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Max Born, Niels Bohr,

Irving Langmuir, Max Planck, Marie Skłodowska Curie, Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Paul Langevin, Charles-Eugène Guye, Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Owen Willans Richardson?

100

The plastic or metal tube found on the ends of shoelaces.

What is an aglet?

200

This is the name of the first animal to go to space, who died during the flight but remained in orbit for five months before returning to Earth. 

Who is Laika?

200

Throughout the 1920s, multiple girls' bodies were reported to be "glowing in their coffins" due to their continued exposure to this element.

What is radium?

200

This is the name for the vertical stretching and horizontal compression of an object due to a black hole. 

What is spaghettification?

200

This physicist described entanglement as "spooky action at a distance".

Who is Albert Einstein?

200

This occasion corresponds with the longest day of the year. (hint: it was yesterday) 

What is the summer solstice? 

300

This martian rover operated for 15 years, finally stopping transmission in 2018 after a dust storm.

What is the Opportunity?

300

There are this many fundamental particles in the standard model. (highest without going over wins)

What is 17?

300

This conic section describes the shape of the orbit of a satellite that experiences a flyby encounter with a planet. 

what is a hyperbola?

300

This physicist, who created the first nuclear reactor, also reasoned that we should be contacted by aliens. 

Who is Enrico Fermi?

300

This type of rock preserves nearly all fossils. 

What is sedimentary? 

400

The only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise on its axis. 

What is Venus?

400

What word describes a theory in theoretical physics, a family of instruments in an orchestra, and cheese that you can easily pull apart?

What are strings?

400

This is the imperial unit for mass. 

What is a slug?

400

This physicist, who had only very basic formal education, was pivotal in the discovery of diamagnetism, electromagnetic induction, and electrolysis.

Who is Michael Faraday?

400

French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi designed this U.S. landmark.

What is the Statue of Liberty? 

500

Pluto is not a planet because of this property.

What is, "Pluto's orbit has other large bodies in it"? 

500

This small Swedish village has accounted for the discovery of eight elements.

What is Ytterby?

500

What first-person shooter video game developed by Valve and published for Microsoft Windows in 1998 launched a globally successful franchise? The game shares its name with a scientific term frequently used in nuclear physics to describe the stability of atoms.

What is Half-Life?

500

As the "warden of the royal mint", this famous physicists brought about the prosecution of multiple counterfeiters, leading them to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

Who is Isaac Newton?

500

The Canadian province/territory had the highest share of its population that reported English as their mother tongue. English was the native language of more than 97% of the entity's population. 

What is Newfoundland and Labrador? 

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