BS Bio
These small cell fragments help the blood to clot, preventing excessive bleeding when blood vessels are damaged.
Platelets or Thrombocytes
A code used to represent colors using a combination of numbers and letters.
Hex code or Hexadecimal code
This refers to the quantity of a good or service that producers are willing to offer at various prices
Supply
This is the shortest complete sentence.
"I am."
A drink consumed immediately after a shot of liquor to alter the taste.
Chaser
A type of cell that has a nucleus which is an area that stores DNA and is surrounded by a kind of skin called a membrane
Eukaryotic Cells or Eukaryotes
A data type that can have only two possible values: true or false.
Boolean
SWITCHEROO: Swap the scores of 2 teams of your choice (your team is excluded from the options).
The fees for borrowing money or the earnings from invested funds, shown as a percentage of the original amount
Interest Rate
GWIYOMI CHALLENGE: Each leader must do the Gwiyomi dance in front of the audience. +5,000 points per team if each leader successfully executes the task.
This is the longest word in the English dictionary.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
A formal, often celebratory, meal prepared for numerous guests.
Banquet
RESET: All teams (except for the team who answered this correctly) reset their score to zero.
These animals are well known for eating upside down.
Flamingos
It's a common introductory program used to demonstrate the basic syntax of a programming language.
Hello World!
HELLO WORLD: +10,000 points to all teams.
It indicates a nation's ability to pay back its debt and is often used as an indicator of financial health.
Debt-to-GDP Ratio
These are words that have two separate and completely opposite meanings.
Contronyms
OHHHHH: Choose 1 team and delete a zero to their score (eg. 1,000 becomes 100).
Metrics used to track and measure the performance of different aspects of the business.
Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
SILENCE: Choose a team you want to mute for 10 minutes EXCEPT 3 members of your choice. If any muted members were caught speaking, -10,000 points to their score.
The number of bones in a human body
206
EQUALITY FOR ALL: +5,000 points to the team with the lowest score, -5,000 points to the team with the highest score.
He was famous for his work developing the first modern computers and decoding the encryption of German Enigma machines during the second world war
Alan Turing
The crisis began in Thailand in July 1997 before spreading to several other countries with a ripple effect, raising fears of a worldwide economic meltdown due to financial contagion.
1997 Asian Financial Crisis
BOMB HAS BEEN PLANTED: Choose and whisper to the host which question you want to plant. If any team picks that question, they will get -10,000 points to their score.
It is the smallest unit of language that contains meaning.
Morpheme
BACK TO ZERO: Choose 2 teams to reset their score to zero.
It measures the average rate at which a hotel room is booked.
Average Daily Rate (ADR)
The oldest living tree species which dates back about 250 million years.
Ginkgo Trees
BETRAYAL: -10,000 points to 2 teams of your choice.
A data structure that stores a collection of elements, all of the same data type, in contiguous memory locations.
Arrays
This term represents a much more positive outlook on a market’s current performance, indicating that stock prices have either increased or are expected to rise soon.
Bull Market
It is the repetition of the same sounds -- usually consonants -- at the beginning of closely connected words.
Alliteration
GOOD SAMARITAN: +10,000 points to 2 teams of your choice.
A drink served at room temperature, without ice or any other mixers.
Neat
CARRY ME: If the next team successfully answered their category, your team will get the same amount of points.