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SCIENCE
100
A pack of playing cards, or a structural and traversable platform along a ship.
What is a deck?
100
Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins; Queen Lillian in Shrek 2.
Who is Julie Andrews?
100
A type of pasta, described as a filling enveloped in thin pasta dough. Give me that formuoli!
What is ravioli?
100
Channel SpongeBob with this creamy condiment.
What is tartar sauce?
100
The age of trees can be determined by counting these.
What are rings?
200
Venomous snakes use a hollow tooth, also called this, to inject venom.
What is a fang?
200
Mork in Mork & Mindy; Theodore Roosevelt in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian.
Who is Robin Williams?
200
While this Korean side-dish is known for being spicy, it's core ingredients are only vegetables, such as Napa cabbages and Korean radishes. No spice necessary!
What is kimchi?
200
Before children, the Pied Piper of Hamelin led these to their doom.
What are rats?
200
The heart has four of these, with two upper atria and two lower ventricles.
What are chambers?
300
Has multiple meanings, including a British pound sterling, or a cut of something chewable (often of the tobacco variety).
What is a quid?
300
Milo Tindle in Sleuth; Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppet Christmas Carrol.
Who is Michael Caine?
300
A French pastry with many names, based off what the puff pastry dish appears to be. The common name originates from the French words for palm tree leaf.
What is palmier?
300
A small immature branch, or a session of filming a movie.
What is a shoot?
300
This scientific model, proposed in 1904, claimed that atoms were like negatively charged fruits, encased in positively charged gelatin.
What is the plum pudding model?
400
A ceremonial act or series of acts, perhaps condoned by a particular "proper" drugstore chain.
What is a rite?
400
Jack Prescott in King Kong (1976); Kevin Flynn in Tron.
Who is Jeff Bridges?
400
Hawaiian cuisine, traditionally consisting of white rice, hamburger, fried egg, and gravy.
What is loco moco?
400
Two things: both yellow dairy product and starchy grain, made to sound like "Jesus Christ."
What is cheese and rice?
400
The last element (in order of atomic number) that has a stable isotope. Up until 2003, this was believed to have been Bismuth.
What is lead?
500
A pile of wood, or other flammable materials, often for the purpose for burning corpses as a funeral rite.
What is a pyre?
500
Lou Grant in The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Carl Fredricksen in Up.
Who is Ed Asner?
500
Valencians (a community in Spain) consider this dish, cooked and served on a shallow traditional pan, to be one of their identifying symbols.
What is paella?
500
First recorded circa 1652, perhaps originates from the phrase from "God's hooks," or the nails of the Crucifixion.
What is Gadzooks?
500
The psychological phenomenon in which one subconsciously imposes a meaningful interpretation on the less than meaningful. Such as this "smiling" leaf.
What is pareidolia?