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This Disney villain seizes the throne of Pride Rock after plotting his own brother Mufasa's demise.

Who is Scar?

400

This seasonal movement describes birds flying south to warmer climates to survive the winter.

What is Migration?

400

This historic Pennsylvania city's name literally translates from Greek as the "City of Brotherly Love."


What is Philadelphia?

400

Invented in 1876, this numerical system is used by most public libraries to organize and classify non-fiction books.

What is the Dewey Decimal System?

400

These bowl-shaped holes and depressions covering the moon's surface were mostly created by asteroid and meteor strikes billions of years ago.


What are craters?

800

Though they were silver in L. Frank Baum's original book, the 1939 film changed them to this vibrant gem color to pop in Technicolor.

What are the ruby slippers?

800

To stay full, a giant panda must spend up to 12 hours a day munching on this specific plant, which makes up 99% of its diet.

What is Bamboo?

800

Along with Cotton, Cattle, Citrus, and Climate, this shiny metal mined heavily in the state completes Arizona's "Five C's."


What is Copper?

800

Many libraries give you free digital access to e-books and audiobooks on your phone through this popular app.


What is Libby?

800

Nearly 1 in 6 people on Earth speak a variant of this tonal language group, which relies on logographic characters rather than an alphabet.


What is Chinese?

1200

This 8-year-old boy is accidentally left behind when his family flies to Paris for Christmas.

Who is Kevin McCallister

1200

Surface temperatures on this second planet from the sun reach a scorching 900 degrees Fahrenheit due to its dense, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.


What is Venus?

1200

While the tiger is the largest natural big cat, it can be outsized by this rare, captive hybrid of a male lion and a female tiger.


What is a liger?

1200

If you are working on a school research paper and need expert help finding sources, you should head to this specific desk at the library.

What is the reference desk?

1200

Hatching from eggs as water-breathing tadpoles, frogs undergo this dramatic biological transformation to become land-dwelling adults.


What is metamorphosis?

1600

In the stylized 2013 Mickey Mouse animated shorts, Donald Duck's traditional black bowtie was permanently swapped for one of this color.

What is red?

1600

Often called the "Wood Wide Web," trees use underground networks of this organism to share nutrients and warn each other of pests.


What is fungi?

1600

Despite being fierce ocean predators, sharks surprisingly have this exact number of bones in their bodies.


What is zero?

1600

This fast-growing section of the library features illustrated storytelling formats, including comic book collections and Japanese Manga.


What is graphic novels?

1600

On a standard QWERTY keyboard, this letter is the only primary vowel not on the top row.


What is A?

2000
In early drafts of Back to the Future, the time machine was not a DeLorean, but rather this heavy, standard kitchen appliance.


What is a refrigerator?

2000

Plunging nearly 36,000 feet down in the Pacific Ocean, this crescent-shaped depression is home to the deepest known point on Earth.


What is the Mariana Trench?

2000

Despite the fame of its largest metropolis, this upstate municipality serves as the official capital of New York.


What is Albany?

2000

Holding over 170 million items, this Washington, D.C. institution is the largest library in the world and the oldest federal cultural institution in the U.S.


What is the Library of Congress

2000

While pure black is expressed digitally as six zeros (#000000) in this system, pure white is represented by six of this highest letter in the code.


What is F? (#FFFFFF)