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Round 1
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Answer
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Which sport is the focal point of the 2024 film Challengers
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Tennis
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Which Virginia Woolf novel's title character is a gender-bending noble person who lives for centuries
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Orlando
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What element is located above iodine and below chlorine in the Periodic Table
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Bromine
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In what 2016 social deduction game do players assume the roles of liberals and facists in the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
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Secret Hitler
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The second smallest moon of Pluto is named after what three-headed dog who guarded the gates of the Underworld
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Cerberus
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In the mythology of which people was Xolotl, the dog-headed twin brother of Quetzalcoatl
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Aztec
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Round 2
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Hint
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Answer
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Complete the following song lyric: "Harder, better, faster..."
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Stronger
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What [Canadian] province became the first jurisdiction in North America to put a price on carbon, when it passed the Climate Change and Emission Management Act in 2003
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Alberta
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What DC character has Mark Hamill voiced many times since first lending his voice to the character in Batman: The Animated Series in 1992
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The Joker
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What Swiss psychologist devised a projective psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of ink blots were recorded and analysed
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Hermann Rorschach
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What conspiracy theorist, one of the most prominent figures of the QAnon movement in Canada, has proclaimed herself "Queen of Canada"
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Romana Didulo
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What two-word phrase, that had its origins in video gaming, now refers to any ploy that bypasses traditional methods or rules in order to improve one's success
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Cheat Code
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Round 3
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Hint
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Answer
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William Bateson coined what word for the study of inheritance in biology
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Genetics
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What unassuming brown snake is the world's most venemous
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Inland Taipan
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What Italian navigator was the first European, after the vikings, to sight Newfoundland
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John Cabot
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What 2024 Nintendo Switch Game has Princess Peach as the main protagonist
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Princess Peach: Showtime!
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Which MLB team won the World Series in 2016, breaking a hundred-and-eight-year drought known as the "Curse of the Billy Goat"
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Chicago Cubs
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What musical instrument appears on the coat of arms of Ireland
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Harp
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Per Islamic dietary laws, what Arabic word refers to permitted foods
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Halal
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Toothbrush bristles are usually made of what synthetic polymer
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Nylon
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