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Wild Card Round (add 200)
100
This mountain range whose name means 'the one who kills the Hindus' is located at the northwestern border of Afghanistan.

What is the Hindu Kush?

100

The hue of blood depends on the level of this gas, the intake of which is necessary for human survival.

What is oxygen?

100
Argentina is named for this metal, or rather its Latin name, which sounds like a gag if dragged out. 

What is silver?

What is argentum?

100

Which constellation is the only one to represent an inanimate object?

What is Libra?

100

This law of motion states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

What is Newton's Third Law?

200

This desert in the silk nation used to be along one of the largest trade routes.

What is the Taklamakan Desert?
200

Sanjay Gupta is a famous neurosurgeon, a surgeon of this, the nucleus of bodily functions and decision.

What is the brain?

200

This letter is the one letter NOT featured on the periodic table. There is a blue variant of this which is a bird/

What is J?

200

This hottest exoplanet in the Milky Way is slowly disappearing due to its temperature. It is three times the size of Jupiter, and in a few million years, it will be reduced to nothing, save for the lonely star it is tidally locked to.

What is KELT-9b?

200

This number Cell-Boy, from Bill Nye the Science Guy

What is one?

300

This measurement which children enjoy chalking up is shown by contour intervals on a topographic map.

What is elevation/height?

300

This was a disease which killed millions of Native Americans during the Columbian Exchange. Don't confuse this pox for the cough-cold variant!

What is smallpox?

300

There are this many elements named after someone, the same number of lines in a sonnet and the square root of 196.

What is 14?

300

This dwarf planet's status has been debated about time and again, so much so that this came up when I googled it: All of the moons of this dwarf planet are named after beings in Hades, the Greek underworld.

What is Pluto?

300

This knowledgeable robot from Brainpop

Who is Moby?

400

In the book Hatchet, Brian Robeson crash lands his bush plane in this region of Canada, which includes Yukon and Nunavut.

What is Northern Canada?

400

These small parasites which you can get attached to you by dipping your hand in a pond used to be a widely-used blood-sucking cure. 

What are leeches?

400

Dynamite was created by this Swedish chemist, the namesake of nobelium. 

Who is Alfred Nobel?

400

This is the star which the 3 Kings followed to get to Baby Jesus, the brightest star in our sky.

What is Polaris?

400

Because of this scientific law, humans cannot fly without aid.

What is gravity?

What is the Law of Gravity?

500

In the film and novel The Outsiders, the Greasers and Socs live in this state, the home of the world's first parking meter. 

What is Oklahoma?

500

This middle section of the small intestine comes from the word 'fasting' in Latin because it is found empty after death. 

What is the jejunum?

500

Which element, discovered while two scientists experimented on liquid air shares its name with a Dodge sedan?

What is neon?

500

This star cluster was originally the main focus of a Druid rite on Halloween. It was also believed to detemine the 'veil of life or death', as earthsky.org phrases it.

What are the Pleiades?

What are the Seven Sisters?

500

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