red
which singer sang "Watermelon Sugar," a pop-hit in 2020?
Harry Styles
"The Da Vinci Code" opens with a murder in which famous museum?
The Louvre
which musical features the song 'Defying Gravity'?
Wicked
DNA and RNA share the same types of nucleic acids, except RNA has _____ instead of thymine.
Uracil
what animal with a vertebrae has the longest lifespan?
Greenland Shark
if a eukaryotic cell has a single set of chromosomes, it is called a ________ cell.
Haploid
what do you call a group of owls?
Which two Caribbean countries have female presidents/prime ministers as of 2026? (100 points for each right answer!)
Barbados
Trinidad and Tobago
'Girl with a Pearl Earring' is a famous painting created by which artist?
Johannes Vermeer
who was the highest-paid actress of 2019?
Scarlett Johansson
what is the fastest-swimming fish in the ocean?
Sailfish
what is the name of the technique thats uses a kitchen torch to caramelize sugar on top of a dessert?
Brûlée
which Bollywood film holds the record for the highest-grossing Indian film of all time?
Baahubali 2
what is the sun’s outermost layer of the atmosphere called?
Corona
which term refers to any non-prime whole number other than 0 and 1?
Composite number
what are the four lobes in the cerebral cortex (outermost layer of the cerebrum)? (100 points for each right answer!)
frontal lobe
parietal lobe
temporal lobe
occipital lobe
name at least four early warning signs that a flood is going to happen? (100 points for each right answer!)
change in wildlife behaviour/animals retreating
water at the shore of the beach is retreating
soil erosion
unusual weather patterns (ex. hurricanes)
water is pooling on the ground after rainfall
during the Salem witch trials in 1692, the two girls who accused women of practicing witchcraft may have suffered from what condition?
Clinical hysteria
name four vegetables commonly used to make the French dish known as Ratatouille? (100 points for each right answer!)
eggplant
zucchini
tomatoes
bell peppers
squash
onions
name all four types of atomic orbitals in chemistry (100 points for each right answer!)
s-orbital
p-orbital
d-orbital
f-orbital
what does the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation represent in the context of astrophysics?
The residual thermal radiation from the Big Bang, permeating the entire universe
By the end of 2025, what were the top five songs on the Billboard Top 100 Singles of 2025? (100 points for each right answer!)
FYI: You don't have to say them in order/ranking, nor do you have to say the music artist!
#1 "Die with a Smile" (Bruno Mars and Lady Gaga)
#2 "Luther" (SZA and Kendrick Lamar)
#3 "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" (Shaboozey)
#4 "Lose Control" (Teddy Swims)
#5 "Birds of a Feather" (Billie Eilish)
name the top four oldest living languages today? (100 points for each right answer!)
FYI: You don't need to say them in order/ranking!
#1 Tamil
#2 Sanskrit
#3 Greek
#4 Persian/Farsi
#5 Arabic
is Pi (π) a rational or irrational number? why or why not?
FYI: You only get the points if you explain your reasoning!
Pi is irrational. It cannot be written as a fraction/it's decimal representation is infinite.