Bodies of Water
Marine Life
The Internet
Famous Rabbis
Japan
200

This 315-mile long river flows north to south through Eastern New York and parts of New Jersey.

What is the Hudson River?
200

This flashy cephalopod is known for its ability to quickly change colors and flash patterns of light at its comrades to communicate.

What is the cuttlefish/cuttle?
200
This omnipresent form of online entertainment was first defined by ethologist Richard Dawkins as a theory described as ideas, behaviors, or skills that transfer between people through imitation.

What is a meme?

200

This rabbi has served as the senior rabbi of the Conservative-affiliated Sinai Temple in Los Angeles and written eight books. Newsweek named him the Most Influential Rabbi in America in 2017.

Who is Rabbi David Wolpe?

200

This complex Japanese writing system is made up of well over 50,000 characters of Chinese origin. Its name literally means "Han characters," for the Han Chinese ethnic group.

What is kanji?

400

This channel, misnamed as a sea, separates the Emerald Isle from the British, linked to the Celtic Sea via St. George's Channel.

What is the Irish Sea?

400

This widely-studied species of jellyfish is known for being almost entire translucent with four horseshoe-shaped gonads, which one can easily see through its transparent bell.

What is the moon jellyfish?

400

This free, open-source Internet browser allows its users to browse the web anonymously. Its namesake routing system anonymizes each message through layers and layers of encryption, like the structure of the bulbous, odiferous vegetable for which it is named. Unfortunately, many peruse it out of an affinity for its dark side.

What is Tor/The Onion Router?

400
This female rabbi has headed Reconstructionist Judaism since 2014, and she was raised as a Conservative Jew. Her wife is a self-proclaimed Jew by choice.

Who is Rabbi Deborah Waxman?

400
This form of Japanese poetry is made up of three lines adding up to 17 characters. It originated as the opening stanza to an older Japanese form of collaborative poetry called "renga."

What is haiku?

600
The "pink lake" of Australia has not actually been pink in 10 years as of 2017, but its long-time pink hue was primarily caused by the high concentration of this element.

What is sodium/salt?

600

This species of sea turtle weighs in as the heaviest and the longest, with an average adult carapace length of between 6.0 and 7.2 feet, an average adult weight between 748 and 847 pounds, and front flippers up to 8.9 feet long.

What is the leatherback sea turtle?

600

This Internet browser was the very first of its kind, and its name is present in nearly every single Internet address today.

What is WorldWideWeb?

600

This English Orthodox rabbi served in the U.K.'s House of Lords for 11 years until his death from his third battle with cancer. He was also the U.K.'s Chief Rabbi until R' Ephraim Mirvis assumed the role in 2013.

Who was Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks?

600
This emperor was the head of state of Japan for over 60 years, leading the nation through World War 2 and into economic prosperity. He is now primarily known by his posthumous imperial name.

Who was Hirohito?/Who was Shōwa?

800

This manmade lake was formed by the construction of the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. It is the largest reservoir in the United States in terms of water capacity.

What is Lake Mead?

800

This fish with an unfortunate name are found in the near-freezing waters of the Arctic, North Atlantic, and North Pacific Oceans. They are mostly concentrated in the North Pacific, but they are consumed for their roe in much of Scandinavia.

What is the lumpsucker/lumpfish?

800
This internet filter used by the Chinese government to block websites such as Google, Wikipedia, and most social media and non-CCP chat platforms has a historical pun in its name.

What is the Great Firewall of China?

800

This Sephardic philosopher remains an influential figure within Orthodox and more observant Conservative Judaism as the author of the Mishneh Torah and the 13 Principles of Jewish Faith. He is more often named using a Hebrew acronym.

Who is Maimonides?/Who is the Rambam?

800

This era, from 1868 to 1912, marked the abolition of the han system and represents the first half of Japanese imperialism. During this time, feudalism ended and saw Japan rise into an economic and political force to be reckoned with. 

What is the Meiji era?
1000
This fictional lake is the basis of a dinosaur name that Greg Kinnear's character on "Friends" simply made up.

What is Lake Mbosco?

1000

Fishermen sometimes refer to cephalopods as these, in reference to their ability to expel black liquid into the water to elude predators.

What is inkfish?

1000

This website, as the name suggests, generates human face through a generative adversarial network. The results are often unsettling at best.

What is "This Person Does Not Exist"?

1000

This Polish Jewish mystic is renowned as the founder of Hasidic Judaism. He is the ancestor of many contemporary Hasidic rebbeim, including Abby Stein, a Savraner rabbi turned transgender activist who rocked the Hasidic community with her coming out in 2015.

Who is the Baal Shem Tov?/Who is the Besht?

1000

This Japanese prefecture in southwestern Honshu has 500,000 people within its borders, and it is still the least populated prefecture of Japan.

What is Tottori/Tottori-ken?