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100

This continent is home to the most countries in the world.

Africa.

100

This process moves molecules from high to low concentration without using energy.

Diffusion.

100

This rapper’s 2018 album Astroworld includes the hit “Sicko Mode.”

Travis Scott.

100

30 sec: x+y=10 and x-y=2. What is x?

6.

100

In the The Matrix, this character is offered a choice between a red pill and a blue pill.

Neo.

200

This mountain, the highest in Africa, is a dormant volcano located in Tanzania.

Mount Kilimanjaro.

200

If two heterozygous organisms (Aa × Aa) are crossed, what is the probability of a homozygous recessive offspring?

1/4.

200

This producer tag—“If Young Metro don’t trust you, I’m gon’ shoot you”—is associated with this hip-hop producer.

Metro Boomin.

200

45 sec: 2(x-3)=10. What is (4x-12)?

20.

200

This 2021 sci-fi film directed by Denis Villeneuve follows Paul Atreides as he arrives on the desert planet Arrakis.

Dune.

300

This European country has coastlines on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.

Spain.

300

This process converts DNA into mRNA in the nucleus.

Transcription.

300

Finish the lyric from “Mr. Brightside”: “Jealousy, turning saints into the sea, swimming through sick lullabies, choking on your…”

Alibis.

300

1 min: You roll two fair six-sided dice. What is the probability the sum is greater than 10?

1/12.

300

In Oppenheimer, this actor portrays J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.”

Cillian Murphy.

400

This plateau, often called the “Roof of the World,” stretches across much of Tibet and western China.

Tibetan Plateau.

400

For the reaction N2 + 3H2 ⇌ 2NH3, what happens to the equilibrium if pressure is increased?

It shifts to the right.

400

This 2018 hit by Childish Gambino blends gospel and trap elements and features a viral, symbol-heavy music video set in a warehouse.

This Is America.

400

1 min: A square has side length 6. A circle is inscribed inside it. What is the area of the region inside the square but outside the circle?

36 - 9π.

400

In this 2023 film, a dreamlike sequence shows a character stepping into multiple alternate realities by performing increasingly absurd physical actions in a laundromat setting.

Everything Everywhere All at Once.

500

This South American capital, one of the highest in the world, sits at over 11,000 feet above sea level.

La Paz.

500

In the Hamiltonian formulation of a non-interacting system of point particles, what term depends solely on generalized momenta and reduces to a positive-definite quadratic form under Cartesian coordinates in Euclidean space?

Kinetic energy.

500

This 2016 music video features the artist wandering through a surreal mansion party, later revealed to be stuck in a time loop.

Starboy.

500

2 min: f(x)=x2ln(x). What is f'(1)?

1.

500

For his role in The Whale, this actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2023 after a major career comeback.

Brendon Fraser.