Science
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Animals
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100

This property of water allows insects to stand on it.

surface tension

100

The series about a Norse god working with the TVA.

LOKI (If you guys didn't get this one just know that I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO mad right now)

100

This Australian bird has a black variety with a trumpeting call.

Black swan

100

The Milky Way’s nearest large neighbor

the Andromeda Galaxy

100

The Arabic phrase meaning “In the name of God, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate,” recited before many actions.

Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim

200

The “post office” of the cell.

the Golgi apparatus

200

Studio behind Frozen, Moana, and Zootopia.

Walt Disney Animation Studios

200

Mammals that lay eggs

monotremes

200

The boundary of a black hole

the event horizon

200

The field of Islamic jurisprudence that deals with methods of deriving rulings from primary sources.

usul al-fiqh

300

The theory of continents moving on Earth’s surface

plate tectonics

300

Composer of Interstellar and The Dark Knight

Hans Zimmer

300

Deep-sea creature that uses a glowing lure

Anglerfish

300

A massive star exploding after collapse.

a supernova

300

This medieval Islamic scholar authored The Revival of the Religious Sciences and is known as “Hujjat al-Islam.”

Al-Ghazali

400

A bond where electrons are shared equally

a nonpolar covalent bond

400

Shakespeare play with “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

Hamlet

400

African predator where females are larger and dominant.

spotted hyena

400

NASA telescope launched in 2021 using infrared.

the James Webb Space Telescope

400

The night considered “better than a thousand months,” mentioned in Surah 97.

Laylat al-Qadr

500

Scientist behind the uncertainty principle

Werner Heisenberg

500

First Oscar category awarded to Shrek.

Best Animated Feature

500

When unrelated species evolve similar traits.

convergent evolution

500

Ripples in spacetime observed in 2015.

gravitational waves

500

This classical Islamic science involves the study of Qur’anic variant readings and their chains of transmission.

‘Ilm al-Qira’at (the science of recitations)