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200

This river is the longest in the South Island. 

What is the Clutha?

200

In this 2026 movie, Ryan Gosling stars as a lone astronaut alongside a new alien friend.

What is Project Hail Mary?

200

This football club completed the 2003–04 English Premier League season unbeaten, earning the nickname ‘The Invincibles.’

Who is Arsenal?

200

This paradox in quantum mechanics describes a cat that is theoretically both alive and dead until observed.

What is Schrödinger's cat?

200

This is a founding document for New Zealand and was first signed on the 6th of February 1840.

What is the Treaty of Waitangi? 

400

This English borough is located around 0° longitude and gives its name to the Prime Meridian.

What is Greenwich?

400

The quote “To be, or not to be,” comes from a play by this poet and playwright.

Who is William Shakespeare?

400

Tied with Michael Schumacher, this British driver holds the record for the most World Drivers' Championships in F1.

Who is Lewis Hamilton?

400

This particle, discovered at CERN in 2012, is associated with the field responsible for giving other particles mass.

What is Higgs boson?

400

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to step on the Moon during this spaceflight mission.

What is Apollo 11?



600

This island is the largest of the four main islands of Japan.

What is Honshu?

600

This movie is the second-highest grossing film of all time, beaten only by James Cameron’s Avatar.

What is Avengers: Endgame?

600

This Formula 1 driver won consecutive world championships from 2010 to 2013 with Red Bull Racing.

Who is Sebastian Vettel?

600

This Physicist discovered the law of induction, which states that the induced EMF in a circuit is proportional to the rate of change of magnetic flux through it.

Who is Faraday?

600

The ancient city of Carthage was the great naval rival of this Mediterranean-spanning European republic/empire.

What is Rome?

800

This country features the literal silhouette/outline of their own geographic territory directly on their national flags in the colour orange.

What is Cyprus?

800

In the Harry Potter series, Ron Weasley’s pet rat turned out to be an animagus by this name.

Who is Peter Pettigrew?

800

The ‘Miracle on Ice’ occurred during the 1980 Winter Olympics when the United States defeated this country in hockey.

What did The Soviet Union do?

800

This biological process uses reverse transcriptase to convert RNA into DNA, commonly used by retroviruses like HIV.

What is Reverse transcription?

800

This famous B-29 Superfortress was the American bomber that dropped the very first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

What is the Enola Gay?

1000

This phenomenon is the geological cause of the Ring of Fire.

What are subduction zones?

1000

The eight-hundred-and-fifth episode of this series aired in February of this year.

What is The Simpsons?

1000

This athlete is the only player to win FIFA World Cup titles as both a captain and a manager for the same country.

Who is Franz Beckenbauer?

1000

This famous physicist made the uncertainty principle, which states that it is impossible to simultaneously know both the exact position and momentum of a particle.

Who is Heisenburg?

1000

She was an English mathematician and writer, often recognized as the world's first computer programmer.

Who is Ada Lovelace?