STEM
Giving your answer in centimeters, what is the length of a side of a square whose diagonal measures 12 sqrt(2) centimeters?
What is 12?
This empire’s road system inspired the saying “All roads lead to ___.”
What is Rome?
In 2019, this Lil Nas X hit set a then-record 19 weeks atop Billboard Hot 100.
Old Town Road
How many minutes in a week? (Bonus: 50 points for exact answer)
What is 9,500-10,500? (Bonus: 10,080)
What are Cardinal Directions?
Protein that accounts for roughly one-third of all human body protein by mass.
What is Collagen?
Only country whose national flag is non-quadrilateral.
What is Nepal?
What is the name of the male Canadian journalist who interviews musicians and other celebrities in great detail?
Who is Nardwaur?
By how much would sea level rise, if all 8 billion people plunged into the oceans?
0 (1-2 microns)
MYRRH, NYMPH, RHYTHM, SPHYNX
What is WORDS WHOSE ONLY VOWEL IS “Y”?
Algorithm whose worst-case time is O(n log n) but becomes O(n²) with naïve pivot choice
Quicksort
What pioneering English woman is considered the founder of modern nursing? (Baul and Arav can only answer second pass)
When did Beyoncé win the Grammy for Best Album of the Year for the first time?
What is 2025?
Around the globe, Google now fields roughly this many search queries every single second.
What is 190,000/sec?
Charge, Heart, Flight, Note
TAKE _____
The Boolean logic gate that is functionally complete all by itself—combine enough of them and you can build any circuit.
What is the NAND gate?
Which popular crime novelist holds the Guinness World Record for the most translated works?
Who is Agatha Christie?
The only 2010s pop anthem to cross 3 billion Spotify streams and win a Grammy for Record of the Year.
Uptown Funk
Drain an Olympic-size swimming pool into 12-ounce soda cans and you’d fill about this many.
What is 7 million (6-8 million)?
BACON, COMIC, LANDING, POWER
_______ STRIP
Hormone secreted primarily by adipocytes that signals satiety to the hypothalamus.
What is Leptin?
What are all of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes?
What are the diary of Tom Riddle, the ring of Marvolo Gaunt, the locket of Slytherin, the cup of Hufflepuff, the diadem of Ravenclaw, Nagini the snake, and, unintentionally, Harry Potter himself?
List the first names of the members of the 60s band The Beatles.
Who are John, Paul, George, RINGO? [Max half points if you don't get RINGO (can get 375 if you get RINGO and 2 others)]
Ballpark the total number of pages in the English Wikipedia.
What is 63,287,246 (56-70 million accepted)?