Biology
Geography
Technology
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100

An average human performs what basic eye function about 20 times a minute, or over ten million times a year? At year's end, your eye must be really moist.

Blinking

100

What is the capital of Denmark?

Copenhagen

100

What is the keyboard shortcut for pasting?

Ctrl + V

100

At the 2010 Academy Awards, the winning film for Best Animated Feature was a Disney-Pixar film featuring Kevin, Charles Muntz, Carl, Russell, and a dog named Dug. What is this helium-inflated film?

Up

100

What 1982 Toto song, whose title is a continent, experienced a resurgence in popularity in 2018 when Weezer covered the song?

Africa

200

Twenty percent of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere is provided exclusively by what large rainforest?

The Amazon

200

What is the smallest country in the world?

Vatican City

200

In 1999 Shigetaka Kurita invented what keyboard additions for cell phones that would eventually replace emoticons and even get their own movie?

Emojis

200

Chadwick Boseman starred in what 2018 Marvel film directed by Ryan Coogler?

Black Panther

200

What 2013 Miley Cyrus song claims she came in like the titular construction item, and swings on the same item in the music video?

Wrecking Ball

300

What is the organelle most commonly referred to as the "powerhouse of the cell?"

Mitochondria

300

What is the capital of Malaysia?

Kuala Lumpur

300

What technology company, now mostly known as a telecommunications giant, gained mass market popularity with its release of the “3310” cell phone in 2000?

Nokia

300

In "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe," what magical country does the White Witch put a spell on so that it is always winter but never Christmas?

Narnia

300

What pop singer's birth name was Demetria before she shortened it to only four letters for her first name on stage?

Demi Lovato

400

The last widely-accepted sighting of a certain bird species was in 1662 on the island nation of Mauritius. Intriguingly, due to the bird's remote home, the creature was considered mythological for a period of time. What is this bird?

The Dodo

400

Timbuktu is the capital of which country?

Mali

400

What delicious computer term did web browser programmer Lou Montulli coin to refer to information that is sent from the browser to the web server? (You usually need to accept them)

Cookies

400

One of the biggest box-office draws of 2022 thus far has been the animated origin-story prequel called "Minions: The Rise of" WHO?

Gru

400

What 17-year old musical artist's 2019 debut album "When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?" made her the first artist born in the 2000s to have a number-one album in the United States?

Billie Eilish

500

A unicellular eukaryote called Plasmodium, which develops in blood-feeding insects like mosquitoes and then spreads to vertebrate hosts, is the cause of what deadly disease?

Malaria

500

How many countries border Kyrgyzstan?

4

500

In education, the acronym STEM stands for "science, technology, engineering, and mathematics." When an A is added to form the acronym STEAM, what does the A stand for?

Arts

500

According to the tagline of the 1979 sci-fi/horror classic Alien, "In space, no one can hear you" do what?

Scream

500

Born Megan Jovon Ruth Pete in Texas in 1995, what rapper and singer's stage name comes in part from her tall height as a child? She's currently 5' 10" and had her first No. 1 Billboard hit with the song "Savage" in 2020.

Megan Thee Stallion