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100

This nation has won the most Men's Football World Cups.

What is Brazil?

100

This family of small, live-bearing fishes—common in Central America—includes guppies, mollies, and swordtails.

What is Poeciliidae?

100

This vice-admiral is most remember for being the captain of the HMS Beagle who took Darwin around the world.

Who is Robert FitzRoy?

100

This soil-dwelling nematode is one of the most studied model organisms in biology and helped scientists understand genetics, development, and aging.

What is C. elegans?

100

This is the common name for the tallest and heaviest of all penguin species Aptenodytes forsteri 

What is the emperor penguin?

200

This is the top scorer for the US Men's National Football team.

Landon Donovan or Clint Dempsey.

200

This organ allows many freshwater fishes to regulate buoyancy by adjusting internal gas volume.

What is the swim bladder?

200

James Watson, Francis Crick and this other person were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. (Hint: It's not Rosalind Franklin...)

Who is Maurice Wilkins?

200

This phylum, whose name means “thread-like,” includes microscopic roundworms that can be free-living or parasitic.

What is Nematoda?

200

The first expedition to reach the geographic south pole was lead by this Norweggian

Who is Roald Amundsen?

300

Name three London teams playing in the 2025-26 Premier League season.

What are Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspurs, West Ham, Fulham, Crystal Palace and/or Brentford?

300

These are two of the three largest Rift Valley Lakes in Africa.

What are Lake Victoria, Tanganyika and/or Malawi?

300

This Dutch tradesman used handcrafted microscopes to observe “animalcules,” becoming one of the first to describe bacteria.

Who is Antonie van Leeuwenhoek?

300

This structure, found in many nematodes, functions as a piercing or feeding organ used to puncture plant or animal tissue.

What is a stylet?

300

This is the lead singer of the Arctic Monkeys.

Who is Alex Turner?

400
Born in Poland, this German is the top scorer at Men's World Cups.

Who is Miroslav Klose?

400

Salmon, eels, and shad are examples of these fishes that migrate between freshwater and saltwater during their life cycles.

What are diadromous fishes?

400

In the early 20th century, this Ukrainian biochemist proposed that life originated from a “primordial soup” of organic molecules in Earth’s early oceans.

Who is Alexander Oparin?

400

This is the genus of the nematode named after Byron Adams.

What is Steinernema?

400

This is the name of the director who crafted the 1982 Antarctic classic The Thing.

Who is John Carpenter?

500

This is the year that Real Salt Lake won the MLS Cup.

What is 2009?

500

The fishes in this order, include electric eels and are known for their electrogenic organs, use electric fields to communicate and navigate in turbid freshwater habitats.

What is Gymnotiformes (Electric fishes is acceptable)?

500

This 19th-century German biologist declared that “all cells come from pre-existing cells,” a cornerstone of cell theory.

Who is Rudolf Virchow?

500

This nematode species, transmitted by mosquitoes, causes lymphatic filariasis, leading to the disfiguring condition known as elephantiasis.

What is Wuchereria bancrofti?

500

This is the largest subglacial lake in the world/

What is Lake Vostok?