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This former teacher graciously subbed when Mrs. Eggen had online trainings two days last week. She is unrelated to the person who founded this facility.

Who is Mrs. Hoffman?

100

This undecided state is worth the minimum of 3 electoral votes, which makes sense when you consider how little population it has spread out over its huge area.

What is Alaska?

100

These water animals are named after a type of flower,  since they apparently look similar. I'm pretty sure the flowers don't have poisonous tentacles, though.

What are sea anemones?

100

This endangered type of rhino was just born in Disney's Animal Kingdom.

What is a white rhino?

100

This is the sport that Ghost is joining in our book.

What is track?

200

This important US document set up federal guidelines on what voting would look like and who could vote. Thankfully it also laid out guidelines on how to amend the document so that voting rights got expanded to more than just white land-owning men over the age of 21.

What is the (US) Constitution?

200

Joe Biden has an extremely small lead in this Deep South state, in no small part thanks to Atlanta.

What is Georgia?

200

While coelenterates are invertebrates, this kind at least has something called skeletons, which it leaves behind in the warm ocean water it lives in, in the form of reefs.

What is coral?

200

A 7.0 earthquake hit two European countries on the 30th, though you only need one.

What is Greece or Turkey?

200

Maine is famous for harvesting these crustaceans we studied.

What are lobsters?

300

Things were rough in this Southeast Asian country; they were dealing with widespread flooding even before the landfall of Typhoon Molave, and now category 5 "super typhoon" Goni.

What is Vietnam?

300

This western state is too close to call, but it's been trending towards Biden... which could be because of how hard COVID shutdowns have affected the economy of Las Vegas.

What is Nevada?

300

Despite the name, these are not fish, but are instead coloenterates whose tentacles should never be messed around with, even if they're washed up on the beach.

What are jellyfish (or sea jellies)?

300

This hurricane in Nicaragua was the 28th named storm this year, a tie for the most since 2005.

What is Hurricane Eta?

300

Hawaii and Arizona are the only states that never use this alternative to regular time.

What is Daylight Savings Time?

400

The recently discovered Ningaloo Reef, which is up to 500 meters tall (taller than the Empire State Building!) can be found off West coast of this Pacific island nation.

What is Australia?

400

This battleground state, where the Constitution was written, is currently leaning Biden.

What is Pennsylvania?

400

This type of animal leaves skeletons that you might find in the kitchen, though these days they're more often artificially made.

What are sponges?

400

This World Heritage Site in Peru is reopening after 8 months, though it'll be a while before international tourists are allowed again.

What is Machu Picchu?

400

Ogre-faced spiders can hear up to 6.5 feet away using these.

What are legs?

500

This satirical "news" site is a prime example of why you don't automatically believe anything you read on the internet, because its headlines are actually jokes, even if you have to peel back the layers of irony to find out why.

What is The Onion?

500

This state, which isn't actually in the north at all, has mostly voted Republican in the past 60 years, but at the moment it's hard to tell.

What is North Carolina?

500

Last week I accidentally made copies from the teacher's book of the science worksheets, which had all the answers filled out. The worksheet was about these usually-10-legged and usually-salt-water crustaceans.

What are crabs?

500

Asteroid 16 Psyche could be made of either of these metals, worth up to $10 quintillion. 

What is iron and/or nickel?

500

Baarle Nassau and Baarle Hertog are parts of the same town split between the Netherlands and this European country.

What is Belgium?