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Biology
100

This fast, intelligent predator from the Jurassic Park films is loosely based on a real dinosaur whose name means “swift thief.”

What is a Velociraptor?

100

In ultimate, the defensive strategy where players guard specific zones instead of marking individuals is known by this name.

What is Zone Defense.

100

This common fitness exercise involves lifting a weight in a controlled motion to build muscle strength, typically performed using dumbbells or a barbell.

What is a Bicep Curl?

100

The place that contains the largest desert in the world

What is Antartica?

100

These membrane-bound organelles in eukaryotic cells contain hydrolytic enzymes used for breaking down waste.

What are lysosomes?
200

Abraham Lincoln signed this 1863 proclamation that changed the status of over 3 million enslaved people.

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

200

In New Girl, this actress plays the quirky main character Jess.

Who is Zooey Deschanel?


200
The number of people who died form the great molasses flood.

What is 21?

200

This is the longest river in the world, which flows through northeastern Africa and is crucial to the civilizations that developed along its banks.

What is the Nile River?

200

This process occurs during meiosis I and increases genetic diversity by exchanging DNA between homologous chromosomes.

What is Crossing Over?

300

This luxury passenger train, famous in the early 20th century for routes like Paris to Istanbul, inspired an Agatha Christie mystery.

What is the Orient Express?

300

In La La Land, Sebastian dreams of opening a jazz club, but ends up playing keyboards in this genre-bending pop band.

What is The Messengers?

300

In alpine skiing, this is the term for the technique where the skier turns by shifting their weight to one ski while the other ski remains nearly parallel to the slope.

What is Carving


300

The man that two ICFH teammates have in common

Who is Daniel Bede?

300

This type of species has a disproportionately large effect on its ecosystem relative to its abundance.

What is a keystone speices?

400

The Park School’s student-run media organization, originally called ICTV, began broadcasting in this decade.

What is the 1950s? (Specifically 1958)

400

What was Billy Joels first album

What is Cold Spring Harbor

400

The original name for Fig Newtons came from this town in Massachusetts, where the Kennedy Biscuit Company was located.

What is Newton, Massachusetts?

400

The state where Eli Cream goes to college.

What is Utah?

400

These pores, found on the surface of leaves, regulate gas exchange and water loss in plants.

What are stomata?

500

In Cars, this Italian race car competes against Lightning McQueen in the World Grand Prix.

 Who is Francesco Bernoulli?


500

These five bones in the middle of your foot are between the toes and the heel.

What are the metatarsals?

500

The century the nut cracker was sinveted

What is the 17th century?

500

The man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who most likely killed JFK

Who is Jack Ruby?

500

This term refers to the complete set of chromosomes in a cell, typically displayed in a photograph or diagram where chromosomes are arranged by size and shape.

What is a karyotype?