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100

Our immune systems produce these proteins to fight off disease

Antibodies

100

"I Can't" do this by H.E.R. won the Grammy for Song of the Year in 2021

"I Can't Breathe"

100

An arm of the Red Sea, this gulf bears the name of the canal it feeds into

Suez

100

In October 1965 Oakland police turned back over 10,000 marchers protesting this war

The Vietnam War

100

6/6 is the metric equivalent of this fraction for normal visual acuity

20/20

100

These are the three stars in the Summer Triangle

Altair, Deneb, and Vega

200

The name of this class of animals means "double life"

Amphibian

200

Jane is this character's real first name on "Stranger Things"

Eleven

200

El Paso, Texas sits just opposite this Mexican city on the Rio Grande

Juarez

200

This actor won the California governorship in 1966 using the unrest at Berkeley as a campaign issue

Ronald Reagan

200

The HT in HTML & HTTP stands for this

Hypertext

200

A distance modulus of 15 corresponds to this distance in kpc

10

300

Marie Curie won Nobel prizes in these 2 categories

Physics & Chemistry

300

Buttercup is the title betrothed in this tale of page & screen

The Princess Bride

300

Found between Austria & Italy, Tyrol is a region in these mountains

The Alps

300

Mario Savio was an informal leader of the FSM, this group named for a constitutional right

The Free Speech Movement
300

The zodiac constellation Leo represents the Nemean lion, slain by him

Hercules

300

This is the number of known moons in the solar system orbiting planets closer to the Sun than Jupiter

Three

400
This insoluble plant fiber is found in paper pulp & in the fruits & vegetables that we eat

Cellulose

400

An industrious raccoon named Tom Nook runs the in-game business in this Nintendo game: "New Horizons"

Animal Crossing

400

8 miles wide at its narrowest, this strait separates Europe & Africa

Strait of Gibraltar

400

This site of the "Bloody Thursday" clash in 1969 was back in the news this year in a fight over campus development

What is People's Park?

400

The osetra is a type of this caviar fish

Sturgeon

400

This is the correct ordering of birth years of Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo, from oldest to most recent

Tycho (1546), Galileo (1564), Kepler (1571)

500

This element of the periodic table, number 109, is the only element named solely for a non-mythological woman

Meitnerium

500

Featuring an all-Black cast and songs like "Ease On Down The Road", this 1975 Broadway musical had a rough beginning before becoming a smash hit & winning 7 Tonys

The Wiz

500

With "Singing Sands" & a crescent-shaped lake, the oasis of Dunhuang is where Asia's Taklamakan desert meets this one

The Gobi
500

This was donated by the class of 1964 and continues to be fired at the beginning of every home football game, after each score, and after each victory

The California Victory Cannon

500

When she said she was leaving "Star Trek", MLK asked her to stay, saying, "through you, we see ourselves and what can be"

Nichelle Nichols

500

Including the umlauts, this is the spelling of the last name of the Finnish scientist often paired with Brunt when referring to the buoyancy

Väisälä