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100

The process by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy.

What is photosynthesis?

100

The number of rings on the Olympic flag. 

What is five?
100

This AI tool, developed by OpenAI, has become widely used by scientists for writing, coding, and data analysis.

What is ChatGPT?

100

This woman became the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.

Who is Marie Curie?

100

The young wizard who attended Hogwarts.

Who is Harry Potter?

200

This process causes eyeglasses to fog up when you walk from a cold room into warm, humid air.

What is condensation?

200

The language of the ancient Roman Empire.

What is Latin?

200

NASA's Artemis program aims to return humans to this celestial body.

What is the Moon?

200

This explorer's voyage across the Atlantic in 1492 led to sustained contact between Europe and the Americas.

Who was Christopher Columbus?

200

This movie franchise features Jedi Knights and Sith Lords.

What is Star Wars?

300

Sound travels faster in this: air, water, or a vacuum.

What is water?

300

The game played on a board with 64 squares.

What is Chess?

300

The U.S. Department of Energy has officially designated this gas as a critical material under the Energy Act of 2020 to strengthen domestic supply chains and manufacturing

What is Helium?

300

This trade network connected China with Europe for centuries, carrying goods such as silk and spices.

What is the Silk Road?

300

This animated Disney movie features sisters Elsa and Anna.

What is Frozen?

400

The reason a metal spoon feels colder than a wooden spoon at the same temperature is that metal is a better conductor of this.

What is heat?

400

This continent contains the most countries.

What is Africa?

400

Recent advances in fusion research often focus on achieving "ignition" in devices that seek to generate energy using reactions that power this object.

What is the Sun?

400

This Mongol ruler created the largest contiguous land empire in history.

Who was Genghis Khan?

400

This blue hedgehog is the mascot of Sega.

Who is Sonic?

500

Insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar, is produced by this organ.

What is the pancreas?

500

Greenwich, England is located on the 0-degree line known by this name.

What is the Prime Meridian?

500

Quantum computers use these quantum-mechanical objects that, unlike classical bits, can exist in more than one state at a time.

What are qubits?

500

In 1453, the fall of this city to the Ottoman Empire marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.

What is Constantinople?

500

This South Korean group had a global hit with "Dynamite."

What is BTS?