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100

This gas is essential for human survival.

What is oxygen?

100

This actor plays the main character in the 2023 film The Marvels.

Who is Brie Larson?

100

Bananas grow on trees

What is Fiction: They grow on large herbs 

100

The first person to walk on the moon.

Who is Neil Armstrong?

100

It has hands but cannot clap.

What is a clock?

200

This organelle in a cell contains most of the genetic material.

What is the nucleus?

200

This viral song by Tate McRae includes the lyric “I can’t believe I believed you.”

What is Greedy?

200

Venus is the hottest planet in our solar system.

What is Fact?

200

The Berlin Wall fell in this year.

What is 1989?

200

I’m tall when I’m young and short when I’m old.

What is a candle?

300

This type of rock is formed from cooled lava or magma.

What is igneous rock  ?

300

The 2022 Netflix series about a young pianist uncovering family secrets is called…

What is Heartstopper?

300

Lightning never strikes in the same place twice

What is fiction?

300

This 20th-century scientist developed the theory of relativity.

Who is Albert Einstein?

300

The more of this you take, the more you leave behind.

What is a footsteps?

400

This law states: “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”

What is Newton’s Third Law?

400

In 2023, this South Korean movie won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the Oscars.

What is Parasite?

400

The human body has more bacterial cells than human cells.

What is fact?

400

The ship that led the First Fleet to Australia in 1788.

What is the HMS Sirius?

400

It appears once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years.

What is the letter M?

500

This part of the brain controls balance and coordination.

What is the cerebellum?

500

This 2023 artist became the first solo act to have three songs simultaneously in the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100, breaking a record previously held by The Beatles.


Who is Olivia Rodrigo?

500

Water boils at 90°C at sea level.

What is fiction?

500

Australia’s first Prime Minister.

Who is Edmund Barton?

500

The more you take away from me, the bigger I become. What am I?

What is a hole?