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200

This largest living land animal uses its trunk to drink, smell and grab food.

What is an elephant?

200

You see lightning before hearing this sound produced by rapidly expanding heated air.

What is thunder?

200

Woody and Buzz lightyear begin their friendship in this 1995 animated movie.

What is Toy Story?

200

The tool has a bowl-shaped mesh screen or holes that let you drain your pasta 

What is a colander? NOT a strainer?

200

Often called the red planet, this world lies between Earth and Jupiter.

What is Mars?

400

A caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis to become a butterfly or this other winged insect. 

What is a moth?

400

This rotating column of air connects a thunderstorm to the ground.

What is a tornado?

400

A young lion named Simba must reclaim his kingdom from his uncle Scar in this film.

What is The Lion King?

400

To "zest" a lemon, you grate this colorful out part, avoiding the bitter white layer underneath.

What is the peel/rind? not skin

400

This force keeps planets orbiting the sun and your feet on the ground.

What is gravity?

600

Despite being mammals, the platypus and echidnas reproduce by laying these.

What are eggs?

600

This instrument measures atmospheric pressure; a falling reading can signal approaching stormy weather.

What is a barometer?

600

A theme park's cloned dinosaurs escape their enclosures in this 1993 Steven Spielberg film.

What is Jurassic Park?

600

This Italian term describes pasta cooked until firm to the bite.

What is al dente?

600

During this type of solar eclipse, the Moon completely blocks the sun's bright disk from view.

What is a total solar eclipse? the correct response must say TOTAL

800

This largest living species of lizard takes its name from an Indonesian island.

What is a Komodo Dragon?

800

When air cools to this temperature, water vapor begins condensing into droplets.

What is the dew point?

800

Regina George leads the plastics in this 2004 comedy starring Lindsay Lohan.

What is Mean Girls?

800

This mixture of flour and fat cooked together helps thicken sauces such as béchamel.

What is a roux?

800

Despite its name, this unit measures distance: how far light travels in one year.

What is a light-year?

1000

DAILY DOUBLE!! DAILY DOUBLE!! STATE YOUR WAGER!!! NO ONE ELSE BUT THE PERSON WHO SELECTED THIS CLUE MAY ANSWER!!! FOR THIS SPECIFIC ONE, IF IT'S WRONG OR NO ANSWER IS GIVEN YOU LOSE HOWEVER MANY POINTS YOU WAGER!!!

Despite being the largest animal ever known to live, this marine mammal feeds mainly on tiny shrimp-like creatures called krill.

1000

Back in 2005, this devastating hurricane decimated Louisiana, specifically the city of New Orleans.

What is or who is hurricane Katrina?

1000

In this 1998 film, Jim Carrey plays a man who discovers his entire life has secretly been a television show.

What is The Truman Show?

1000

This technique involves briefly boiling food, then plunging it into ice water to stop the cooking.

What is blanching?

1000

With an average density of about 5.51 grams per cubic centimeter, this world is both the densest planet in our solar system and the largest of its four rocky planets.

What is Earth?