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100

What is the general term for the small tubes in the circulatory that carry deoxygenated blood back to the heart? It sounds like an adjective for a conceited person.

What is Vein

100

What founding father was credited with inventing bifocals?

Who is Ben Franklin
100

What is the origin of the distress signal ‘mayday’?

Mayflower Day, a sailor’s holiday

it was the easiest segment of Morse code to type

Cockney rhyming slang of the word waylay meaning "ambush.

"the French m’aider, meaning “help me”

What is "the French m’aider, meaning “help me”

100

In the acronym PB&J the B stands for 

What is butter

100

A popular meme features what green Muppet drinking a glass of tea, often used to passive aggressively judge people for doing things they’re not supposed to?

Who is Kermit the Frog

200

Of the three principal layers that make up human skin, what name is given to the outermost layer that provides a waterproof and protective barrier?

What is epidermis

200

How many original British colonies existed in America?

What is 13

200

What is the earliest known use of the word deadline?

A printer’s mark in an early edition of Shakespeare.

A line which prisoners would be shot if they passed.

A department store sale in 1920s Baltimore.

The perimeter of Thomas Jefferson’s property at Monticello.

What is a line which prisoners would be shot if they passed originated in the United States during the Civil War.

200

made from juice, which has been strained to remove all solids, resulting in a smooth, firm, and transparent spread

Peanut

Butter

Jelly 

Time

What is Jelly

200

Often used to express defiance, one popular meme shows "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" cast member Taylor Armstrong crying, pointing, and yelling at what animal?

What is cat

300

What iron containing metalloprotein carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body? It is in the red blood cells of most vertebrate animals.


What is Hemoglobin

300

Who was the first European to land in North America?

Who was Leif Erikson arrived from Norway in the 10th century

300

The word bikini comes from ______.

a combination of the prefix bi-, meaning “two,” and kini a Hawaiian word for “shirt”

an island where the US exploded two nuclear bombs

the name of the French designer who invented it

a Sanskrit word meaning “exposed skin”


What is an island where the US exploded two nuclear bombs.  The nuclear bombs were exploded in 1946, at the Bikini atoll in the South Pacific.


300

Thomas Jefferson and Jimmy Carter both grew up farming this?


Peanuts

Butter

Jelly-Grapes

Time

What are peanuts

300

A famous meme in the early days of their existence, a challenge went up to photoshop the funniest or most inappropriate thing possible on an easel behind which famous televised art teacher?

Who is Bob Ross

400

The term ‘subcostal' is used for things that are situated or performed below which set of bones?

What are the ribs

400

What city was the first capital of the United States?

What is New York City

400

Which of these Latin words serves as part of the origin of talented?

talitrum (“a rap with the knuckles”)

indoles (“character, talent”)

talentum (“a unit of weight or money”)

talio (“retaliation”)

What is talentum (“a unit of weight or money”)

400

What is one thing that humans experience differently from where they are located

What is time

400

More than a decade after it happened (in 2005), a clip of which “Top Gun” star jumping on Oprah’s couch got the meme treatment?


Who is Tom Cruise

500

In the human body there are "pyloric," "ileocecal," and "urethral" types of what circular muscles, which maintain constriction of an orifice?

What are sphincters

500

What was the first American state? 

New York

Massachusetts

Delaware

Pennsylvania

What is Delaware

500

Where does the word boycott come from?

Charles C. Boycott, an English land agent

Smitherson Boycott-Endersby, a Scottish baron

Louis ‘Boychick’ Boycott, a Russian circus promoter

Duke Boycott, a fictitious American newsboy

Who is Charles C Boycott, a retired army captain, served in Ireland as the agent for an absentee landlord in the late 19th century.

500

This is made with caramelized sugar & peanuts

What is Peanut Brittle

500

There is a meme from a 1960s cartoon of three different versions of what Marvel superhero pointing at each other? It was recreated in a 2018 animated film and referenced in promotional material for a 2021 film.

Who is Spider Man