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100

The three main campuses in Washington

What is Seattle, Tacoma, and Bothell?

100

George Orwell's dystopian novel featuring Big Brother

What is 1984?

100

A flightless bird whose eye is larger than its brain

What is an ostrich?

100

Name either of the Japanese cities hit by nuclear bombs during World War II

What is Nagasaki and/or Hiroshima?

100

The S in SPA

What is "statistics"?

200

The year UW was founded

What is 1861?

200

Disney's 1961 animated feature film about a large family of dogs

What is 101 Dalmatians?

200

Which of the following does not exist: lemon shark, apple mantis, potato cod, banana spider, chocolate-chip starfish?

What is an apple mantis?

200

Name three countries (except Russia) that belonged to the Soviet Union.

What is/are [Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan]?

200

The S in USA

What is "States"?

300

Number of huskies (actual dogs) used by the UW as mascots

What is 11?

300

2007 Zack Snyder film about King Leonidas and the Battle of Thermopylae

What is 300?

300

Which of the following has a name that does not correctly identify its species: king cobra, mountain lion, red panda, carpenter bee, maned wolf

What is a carpenter bee?

(King cobras, red pandas, and maned wolves all belong to their own genus; mountain lions are cougars, not lions.)

300

The birthplace of Alexander the Great

What is Macedon?

300

Two-syllable word for a large house. This gets real.

What is "estate"?

400

UW motto and translation

What is "lux sit", "let there be light"?

400

The rocket named after a ringed planet that supported the Apollo moon missions and the launching of the Skylab

What is the Saturn V?

400

A species of penguin in which males attract females by giving them pebbles (not to be confused with a popular singer).

What are Adelie penguins?

400

The kingdoms founded by Sun Quan (孫權), Cao Pi (曹丕), and Liu Bei (劉備) during China's Three Kingdoms period?

Wei (魏), Shu/Han (蜀/漢), Wu (吳) 

400

The name for a device found in many homes that automatically regulates temperatures

What is a thermostat?

500

Name of the UW mascot before the Husky which received backlash for its apparently derogatory name in relation to the Seattle climate.

What is/are the Sun Dodger/s?
500

The only Star Wars feature film with a number in its title

What is Rogue One?

500

What type of animal is a mountain chicken?

What is a frog?

500

Number of present-day countries that have NOT been invaded/occupied/colonized by Britain

22 (out of over 200)

500

Five-syllable noun for the mass or excessive clearing of trees

What is "deforestation"?

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