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100

This grain is the main ingredient in traditional risotto.

What is rice?

100

This process allows plants to turn sunlight into chemical energy.

What is photosynthesis?

100

This author created Sherlock Holmes.

Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?

100

This came first: the first moon landing or the first email

What is the first moon landing?

100

This organ pumps blood throughout the body.

What is the heart?

200

Guacamole traditionally gets its creamy base from this fruit

What is avocado?

200

This is the largest species of living penguin.

What is the emperor penguin?

200

Jane Austen wrote this novel featuring Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy.

What is Pride and Prejudice?

200

This came first: the opening of the Panama Canal or the start of World War I.

What is the opening of the Panama Canal?

200

These tiny structures in the lungs allow oxygen to pass into the bloodstream.

What are alveoli?

300

This French cooking term means preparing ingredients before cooking by putting everything in its place.

What is mise en place?

300

A camel's hump primarily stores this substance, not water.

What is fat?

300

George Orwell wrote this dystopian novel whose title is a year.

What is 1984?

300

This came first: the publication of The Hobbit or the release of Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

What is The Hobbit?

300

This is the longest and strongest bone in the human body

What is the femur?

400

Traditional pesto gets its characteristic green color primarily from this herb.

What is basil?

400

This tree produces acorns.

What is an oak?

400

This American author wrote The Old Man and the Sea.

Who is Ernest Hemingway?

400

This came first: Canada's Confederation or the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

What is Canadian Confederation?

400

This small organ behind the stomach produces insulin.

What is the pancreas?

500

This Japanese seasoning paste is traditionally made by fermenting soybeans with salt and koji.

What is miso?

500

The world's largest living structure built by organisms is this reef system off Australia.

What is the Great Barrier Reef?

500

This Russian novelist wrote Crime and Punishment.

Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?

500

This came first: the invention of the safety bicycle or the first modern automobile.

What is the safety bicycle?

500

This cranial nerve is the longest nerve of the autonomic nervous system and travels from the brainstem into the chest and abdomen.

What is the vagus nerve?

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