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This. Where two bones meet.

What is an articulation point?

100

Subterranean survey may include this type of probe.

What is a shovel test probe. 

100

This. The study of the origin of words

What is Etymology.

100

The tendency to judge others using the values and standards of ones own society.

What is Ethnocentrism

100

This popular music singer has a song which includes the lyrics "That's that me espresso."

Who is Sabrina Carpenter

200

This number, the amount of vertebrae in the human spinal column. 

What is Thirty-three

200

The Successive layers of soil that form around an artifact or feature.

What are Strata.

200

This MIT professor is the most famous linguist alive today

Who is Noam Chomsky

200

This Mesoamerican culture was responsible for the construction of Chichen Itza.

Who are the Maya.

200

This Science Fiction / Fantasy Author who wrote The Left Hand of Darkness and A Wizard of Earthsea.

Who is Ursula K. LeGuin

300

This scientists rule, which dictates the distribution of body mass as determined by climate.

Who is Bergmann or Bergmann's Rule

300

This type of dating methods includes Radiocarbon and Thermoluminescence. 

What is Absolute dating methods.

300

This alphabet which you may need while visiting Saint Petersburg.

What is Cyrillic?

300

NAGPRA is the abbreviation for this act.

What is the Native American Graves Protection & Repatriation Act.

300

In the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Aragorn is played by this actor.

Who is Viggo Mortensen.

400

This substance, also called grave wax which forms during the decomposition process.

What is Adipocere.

400

The city Cahokia was a part of this culture know for the construction of large earthen mounds, flourishing in what is now the Southeastern US from 800-1600 CE.

What is Mississippian

400

This name for a simplified language which develops between groups who don't share a prior language.

What is a pidgin?

400

The Festival of lights is an alternate name for this holiday celebrated in Hinduism. 

+50 points if you can name the other holiday called the festival of lights.

Diwali/Divali


Bonus: Hanukkah

400

Ellensburg, WA is mentioned in a song by this singer, The man in black.

+50 for the song.

Who is Johnny Cash.

Bonus: I've Been Everywhere.

500

This contemporary of the Neanderthals first discovered in the Altai mountains shares DNA with modern humans.

Who are the Denisovans

500

Initiating conchoidal fracture causes this cone to occur

What is Hertzian.

500

A word which reads the same forwards and backwards. e.g. Racecar.

What is a Palindrome.

500

Blood relatives are this type of relation.

What is consanguineous?

500

This 2024 movie starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande has grossed over $430 million dollars domestic

What is Wicked.