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100

What is the 14-letter medical term for temporary, painful damage to the eyes from ultraviolet light, such as from the sun or from the sun's reflection on snow?

Photokeratitis 

100

Who established the fire-together and wire-together theory?

Donald Hebb

100

The term “Hoosier” is used to describe people from what state?

Indiana 

100

What is the capital of California?

Sacramento 

100

What restaurant in Madison can you go and get a cute little sundae scoop on your birthday?

Nitty Gritty

200

René Théophile Hyacinthe Laënnec came up with what device when he was uncomfortable putting his head on a woman’s chest? 

Stethoscope

200

In the 1920s, researchers named what genus of bacteria, which can cause meningitis and sepsis in humans, after the "father of sterile surgery?"

Listeria

200

In the song House of Rising Sun, what US city is the house set in?

New Orleans 

200

What state capital is known as the “Mile High City”?

Denver, Colorado 

200

How many UW undergrad campuses are there in Wisconsin?  

13

300

In 2000, Intuitive Surgical Company launched a robotic surgical system to assist surgeons with everything from prostate removals to heart valve repairs. Who is this system named after? 

Leonardo Da Vinci 

300

What Nobel Prize disciples did Marie Cure win a Nobel Prize in?

Physics and Chemistry 

300

If you were a British young student in science class, what would you be learning about if you heard this phrase “Richard of York, gave battle in vain”?

Learning about the colors of the rainbow 

300

What state capital can you try over 100 Coca Cola flavors in? 

Atlanta, Georgia 

300

What is the state sandwich of Wisconsin?

A brat 

400

Somnambulism is the fancy medical word for which disorder?

Sleep walking 

400

According to Cold Spring Harbor Lab, what percent of the human genome is made up of remnants of ancient viral DNA?

8%

400

What country has these national parks: Huascarán national park, parque national del Manu, tingo Maria national park, reserva nacional San Fernando 

Peru 

400

What state capital was the Brown vs Board of education case occur in?

Topeka, Kansas 

400

What is the state fish?

Muskellunge or Muskie

500

In 2011, a Swedish university hospital performed the world's first transplant operation using a synthetic organ that was fully grown in a laboratory. What organ/body part did they transplant?

Trachea 

500

What does CRISPR stand for?

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

500

What girl band previously known as Lylas was founded on 2nd season of X Factor US? 

Fifth Harmony 

500

What is the only state capital without a McDonald’s?

Montpelier, Vermont 

500

What town in Wisconsin is know to be the home of the Kringle?

Racine