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The larger animal between the average lynx or puma.

What is a puma? (Averaging almost 8 ft long, nose to tail, compared to an average 3 ft for lynxes.)

100

Drake was born in this country.

Canada?

100

More people speak this country’s official language than any other language

Where is China?

100

This organelle is the powerhouse of the cell. 

What are mitochondria?

100

This common spice/seasoning was once use as money.

What is salt? 

200

The color of horseshoe crab blood.

What is blue? (Also acceptable: dark gray.)

200

In 2021, a song by this Canadian singer became the Billboard Hot 100's #1 Greatest Hit of All Time.

Who is The Weeknd? (Blinding Lights)

200

Having more surface area than Pluto, this country is the world’s largest.

What is Russia?

200
This statement is either true or false: anyone can be "trained" to be creative.

What is: true!

"Divergent thinking" can help anyone be creative with three tips from story-telling:
1. Imagine how something could be different if the world was different.
2. Think about something from someone else's point of view.
3. Use plot-twists to turn something into a story with an unexpected outcome.

200

Any function of the U.S. congress.

What is collecting taxes, regulating business, printing money, declaring war, and making laws.

300

The species that evolved first: sharks or trees

What are sharks? (Shark species arrived 450 M years ago, compared to 370 M years for the first trees.)

300

This is how you'd describe a marimba.

What is a percussion instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck with yarn wrapped around rubber mallets to produce musical tones?

(Key words: percussion, wooden, mallets)

300

This is where you would find the Sphynx.

Egypt?

300

This fundamental force of nature powers MRIs and speakers.

What is electromagnetism?

(Points for either electricity or magnetism)

300

The most populous city in the United States.

Where is New York? 

400

These animals comprise the mythical griffin. 

Altogether, what are the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle's talons as its front feet?

400

This top-selling artist is the world's wealthiest female musician.

Rihanna?

400

Name any of the world's top 5 happiest countries in 2022.

What are: 

1. Finland

2. Denmark

3. Iceland

4. Switzerland

5. Netherlands

400

This neurotransmitter is involved in mood, appetite, digestion, and sleep.

What is serotonin?

400

The top 3 most spoken languages worldwide.

What are Mandarin, English, and Hindi?

500

In 1992, Seo Taiji and the Boys was credited with the establishing this popular modern genre.

K-pop?

500

The Pacific Ocean connects to any of these South American countries.

What are Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru?

500

The only scientist to have ever won 2 Nobel Prizes in science, for physics and chemistry. She was born Poland in 1867.

Who is Marie Curie?

500

The speed of the first person to get a speeding ticket, in 1896: 0.8 mph, 8 mph, or 80 mph. 

What is 8 mph?

(Walter Arnold got a speeding ticket in Kent, England for going 4 times the speed limit on his bicycle.)