Taste
Sight
Smell
Hearing
Touch
100

This is the only one of the five "basic tastes" with a Japanese name

Umami (savory)

100

What are the two main types of photoreceptor cells in the retina?

Rods (night, movement, peripheral) and cones (day, color)

100
The Sapient office smells bad because of a failure in the HVAC system - probably specifically the "V" part - which stands for...?

Ventilation

100
It's not thunder - you'll hear this if something flies by at greater than Mach 1

Sonic boom

100

"Reaching out...touching me...touching youuuuuu" - name that song!

Sweet Caroline

200

This comedy/drama takes place in a chaotic Chicago restaurant

The Bear

200
On this dating show, you won't see your potential partner

Love Is Blind

200

Mmmm, burnt toast smell! You're in for a tasty breakfast treat...or perhaps you may be having one of these

Stroke (or seizure or other acute neurological issue)

200
In this thriller/horror movie you apparently won't hear any baby sheep

Silence of the Lambs

200

Apple phones transitioned to full touch screen in the late 2010s - what did they remove to do so? 

Home button
300

Strawberry Fields Forever is a great song, that doesn't actually have to much to do with strawberries, which are a great fruit. Who wrote this song?

The Beatles (79 Cam points for John Lennon)

300

This band can apparently see out of their two standard eyes just fine...but the other one is giving them issues

Third Eye Blind

300

Garlic, onions, chives, scallions, and many other pungent staples all come from this plant genus

Allium

300
Does anyone else hear that high-pitched buzzing? Or do I just have this audiological condition?

Tinnitus

300

Be careful before touching this brightly colored, hopping amphibian - cute, sure! So cute it could kill..

Poison dart frog

400

The "miracle berry" causes what peculiar taste effect?

Makes sour things taste sweet (miraculin activates sweet receptors in a low pH environment)

400

This color is not "real", in the sense that it doesn't have a particular wavelength but is instead a product of our brain's perception of color

Pink

400

Petrichor is a funky word referring to a very specific smell - what is it?

The smell of fresh rain falling on dry soil

400

This famous glam/hair metal band name is a hard-of-hearing large cat

Def Leppard

400

The sense of touch is mediated by which fundamental physical force?

Electromagnetism

500

This membrane channel protein - technically responsible for sensing body temperature - is activated by capsaicin as well.

TRPV1

500

Why do we have a blind spot?

The optic nerve needs to connect to the retina

500

Ambergris was once highly valued by perfume makers for its "sweet, earthy" scent after aging. Fresh ambergris, however, is said to have a "fecal, marine" odor. What is ambergris?

It's a solid, grey, waxy, substance produced in the digestive tract of sperm whales, thought to help pass indigestible objects such as squid beaks


Anything reasonably close gets credit

500

Name the 3 smallest bones in the human body, which are found in the ear

Hammer, anvil, stirrup
500

Touchstone - we use the word metaphorically now - but historically a touchstone was a real tool used for what purpose?

Assaying precious metals (i.e. you rub gold on it and it leaves a mark, and different purities/alloys will leave different types of marks) 

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