Russia
Corn
Fishes
Dinosaur Scramble
Novels
100

What colors are on the Russian flag?

Red, white, and blue

100

True or false? Corn is a fruit, vegetable, and grain.

True

100

What fish are famous for their long upstream migrations so they can lay their eggs, if they're not eaten by bears?

Salmon

100

LVOEICRPTRAO

Velociraptor

100

True or false? Novels are fiction.

True

200

True or false? Russia is the largest country in the world. True or false? Russia has more surface area than Pluto.

Both true

200

The largest corn producer in the USA is not Illinois, but what neighboring 'I' state?

Iowa

200

What popular food fish, often eaten in sushi or from a can, are the most hydrodynamically designed animals on Earth?

Tuna

200

ITCREOPTSAR

Triceratops

200

Who wrote the Harry Potter series?

JK Rowling

300

What is the capital of Russia? (name another important Russian city for more points)

Moscow (St Petersburg, Vladivostok, etc)

300

Corn was first grown in what country south of the USA? (what is its alternative name outside of the USA?)

Mexico (maize)

300

What venomous fish, named for an African big cat, are an invasive species off the coasts of Florida?

Lionfish

300

NONTRYAURSUSA XRE

Tyrannosaurus rex

300

Mary Shelley wrote what classic sci-fi horror novel, about a doctor who reanimates corpses into a living monster?

Frankenstein

400

What is the name of the vast region of Russia, famously cold, covered in tundra and forests, located east of the Ural Mountains?

Siberia

400

Corn belongs to what family of plants, which also includes big bluestem, bamboos, reeds, and Kentucky blue?

Grass

400

The electric eel is found in the waters of what river, the second longest in the world? (Bonus points: is it an eel?)

Amazon (no)

400

NTOGGIAOURUSAS

Giganotosaurus

400

The Chronicles of ___ series features characters such as Aslan the lion and the White Witch, and has books such as Prince Caspian, The Silver Chair, and the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Narnia

500

The rulers of the Russian Empire were referred to by what title, a term descended from "Caesar"?

Tsar

500

We'll round up to the nearest whole number. How much of Illinois's land area is corn? (between 10 and 90)

30% (technically 29.7%) (11.2 million acres)

500

The reef triggerfish off of Hawaii has the longest common name in the world when you use its Hawaiian name. What is that name?

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a

500

RGNAITNOURUSAEA

Argentinosaurus

500

The oldest novel in the world is arguably Callirhoe, written in ancient Greece. In what century was it published? (1st through 21st)

First