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2023 SAG Awards
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These building blocks of proteins generally differ only by their sidechains.

What are amino acids?

100

Winner of Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

Who is Brendan Fraser?

100

This 19th century scientist traveled the world on the HMS Beagle in his studies of the evolution of species.

Who is Charles Darwin?

100

The White House has banned this app on government-issued phones. This app also recently set a time limit on how long minors could use it.

What is TikTok?

200

This type of genetic material forms part of an organelle necessary for the translation of mRNA.

What is ribosomal RNA?

200

Winner of Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role 

Who is Michelle Yeoh?

200

This Danish physicist not only developed a model of atomic structure involving orbits around a nucleus, but also has an element named after them.

Who is Niels Bohr?

200

These celebrities have recently become the namesakes of a McDonald's meal.

Who is Cardi B and Offset?

300

This unique type of cell-cell communication occurs in neurons and involves neurotransmitters.

What is synaptic signaling?

300

Winner of Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series 

Who is Jennifer Coolidge?

300

This Polish-French physicist specialized in studying radioactivity and helped discover two new elements, polonium and radium.

Who is Marie Curie?

300

An FDA advisory committee has recommended that the agency approve Pfizer and GSK vaccines for this.

What is RSV?

400

Found in the mitochondrial electron-transport chain, its release into the cytoplasm also triggers apoptosis.

What is cytochrome c?

400

Winner of Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series 

Who is Abbott Elementary?

400

This French microbiologist disproved the theory of spontaneous generation and created vaccines for anthrax and cholera, among other accomplishments.

Who is Louis Pasteur?

400

The Department of Justice concluded that this mysterious illness experienced by government officials was likely not caused by foreign adversaries.

What is Havana Syndrome?

500

This is a type of segmentation gene in early development that creates subdivisions along the anterior-posterior axis. Hunchback is one of them.

What is gap gene?
500

Tied the SAG Awards record this year for most nominations

Who is Everything Everywhere All at Once?

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Who is The Banshees of Inisherin?

500

This scientist, who also happens to be a Philadelphian, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week for their work on click chemistry and bio-orthogonal chemistry.

Who is K. Barry Sharpless?

500

After a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, this chemical was burned off, releasing phosgene and hydrogen chloride into the environment.

What is vinyl chloride?