Geography
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Science
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Wild Card
100

It is the capital city of Canada.

What is Ottawa?

100

It is a popular condiment used as the base for tartar sauce.

What is Mayonnaise? 

100

It is the largest internal organ in your body.

What is Liver?

100

It is a novel written by Yann Martel featuring the title character stranded on a lifeboat after a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker?

What is Life of Pi?

100

It is the structure that connects muscles to bones.

What is a tendon?

200

Chinese and Portuguese are the official languages of this special administrative region of China. 

What is Macau?

200

It is a Mediterranean spread made with roasted eggplant.

What is Baba Ghanoush?

200

It is an element with atomic number 3 on the periodic table and essential component of batteries.

What is Lithium?

200

The first Canadian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, she is famous for writing contemporary short stories.

Who is Alice Munro?

200

In the movie “Castaway,” this specific type of sports ball serves as the companion of Tom Hanks’ character Chuck Noland.

What is Volleyball?

300

It is the third largest island in the world comprising of three countries.

What is Borneo?

300

Real vanilla comes from certain climbing species of this tropical plant.

What is Orchid? 

300

The name of this disease stems from the medieval term that means ‘bad air’?

What is Malaria?

300

Fittingly, considering its definition, this literary term has roots in the Greek words for both "sharp" and "dull/stupid".

What is Oxymoron?

300

In this combat sport, throwing salt is traditionally used as part of a purification ritual before a match.

What is Sumo?

400

Caracas is the capital city of this country.

What is Venezuela? 

400

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall is a delicacy from this country.

What is China?

400

It is a branch of geology that studies rocks, their mineralogy, composition, texture, structure and the conditions under which they form.

What is Petrology?

400

It is a "phony" and "lousy" book by J.D. Salinger held by Mark David Chapman when he killed John Lennon.

What is The Catcher in the Rye?

400

It is the largest geochronologic time unit.

What is an eon?

500

It is the continent with the largest desert on Earth.

What is Antarctica?

500

It is the scale used to measure spiciness. 

What is Scoville?

500

It is Jupiter's third largest moon, and the most volcanically active world in the solar system. Its name only has two letters. 

What is Io?

500

Dmitri, Ivan, and Alexei are the three familial title characters in this 1879 novel that discusses questions of God, free will, and morality.

What is The Brothers Karamazov?

500

This movie (directed by a woman) is the winner of Academy Award Best Picture in 2020. 

What is Nomadland?