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Toss-Ups
100

What type of animals only eat plants?

Herbivore

100

How many oceans are there on Earth?

5

100

What was the first spaceflight on the moon?

Apollo 11

100

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What color is amethyst? 

purple
100

Researchers at Los Alamos National Lab have developed an AI-based method that better predicts what catastrophic events can cause soil liquefaction and tsunamis.

Earthquakes

200

Imported from South America for the fur trade, these large rodents escaped or were released when the market declined. They destroy wetlands, causing massive soil erosion, and damage infrastructure by burrowing into levees and roads.  What are they?

Nutria

200

What is the most populous country on Earth?

India

200

How many people have walked on the moon?

12

200

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It's the most consumed chocolate bar in the world.

Snickers

200

A deep-ocean trench can form at which of the following tectonic plate boundaries?

Ocean-Continent Convergent

300

What is the only animal that can't jump?

Elephant

300

Which American road runs from Chicago to Los Angeles?

Route 66

300

How many hours are there in one week?

168

300

How many Harry Potter books and movies are there? (Hint: They are not the same number!)

7 books 8 movies

300

Which layer of the Earth's atmosphere is closest to the Earth's surface? 

Stratosphere

400

How many hearts does an octopus have? 

Three

400

Who is the longest-serving US president?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

400

Which planet in our solar system has the longest day?

Jupiter

400

 In what year was the internet opened to the public?

1993

400

What object, the source of the Orionid [“oh-RYE-oh”-nid] meteor shower, has a period of about 75 years, and is named after the Englishman who predicted its 1758 return?

Halley's Comet

500

What is considered the largest dog breed?

Mastiff

500

What is the largest island in the world?

Greenland

500

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Which planet is the hottest in the solar system?

Venus

500

What was the original purpose of the tiny pocket in jeans?

To store pocket watches

500

What chemical process, whose “fractional” variant is used in refining petroleum, can separate alcohol from water based on their boiling points?

Distillation