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100

The P in SPACECAT. 

What is purpose?

100

The biological process in which plants produce glucose and oxygen from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.

What is photosynthesis?

100

The artist who recently bought back the rights to all six of her first masters.

Who is Taylor Swift?

100

The name of Elizabeth Bennet’s love interest in Jane Austen’s book Pride and Prejudice.

Who is Mr. Darcy?

100

The state flower of California.  

What is the (California) poppy?

200

The icon that McMillan asks for students to draw in the top right corner of tests.

What is a dinosaur and/or a unicorn?

200

The animals that Charles Darwin observed while formulating his theory of evolution.

What are finches?

200

The celebrity who flew to space in 2025; iconically pictured floating in zero gravity, holding a flower.

Who is Katy Perry?

200

The title of the most recently released novel in the Hunger Games series.

What is Sunrise on the Reaping?

200

The lowest natural place on planet Earth. 

What is the Mariana Trench?

300

The name of the president who addressed the nation following the Challenger disaster.

Who is Ronald Reagan?

300

The derivative of 2x5+3x2-7x+9. 

What is 10x4+6x-7?

300

The date on which Aaron asked Cady what day it was in the movie Mean Girls.

When is October 3rd?

300

The color and model of the car that Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby owns.

What is a yellow Rolls Royce?

300

The first toy advertised on television.

What is Mr. Potato Head?

400

The date on which you took the APEL exam...

When was May 14th, 2025?

400

The name of the subatomic particles that make up protons and neutrons.

What are quarks?
400

The name of Progressive Insurance's spokeswoman.

Who is Flo?

400

Daily Double: The quote “These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,/Which as they kiss consume,” is from which famous work of literature?

What is Romeo and Juliet?

400

The smallest country in the world by area.

What is Vatican City?

500

The state in which the votes for the Election of 2000 were contested, leading to the Supreme Court deciding George W. Bush’s eventual victory.

What is Florida?

500

Managed by the California Institute of Technology, JPL is a federally funded research and development center in Pasadena. JPL stands for…

What is Jet Propulsion Laboratory?

500

The Star Wars movie that the line “Luke, I am your father” comes from.

What is none! (That line never appeared in any Star Wars movie. The actual quote is “No, I am your father,” which Darth Vader said in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back)

500

The names of all four of the March sisters from the novel Little Women.

Who are Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy? 

500

Complete the following lyric from a famous Broadway musical: “Cause I'm dead if I can't count on you today/I got nothing if I ain't got ____________.”

What is Santa Fe?