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This trophy is awarded to the NHL playoff champion.
What is the Stanley Cup?
Churchill won this prestigious award in 1953 for his historical writing.
What is the Nobel Piece in Literature?
This is the one place in the world where you cannot find pumpkins.
What is Antartica?
This is the name of Harry Potter's school.
What is Hogwarts?
This is the name of the championship series played at the end of the MLB season.
What is the World Series?
What is a hat trick?
Before coming prime minister, Churchill wrote this type of firsthand account about his experiences as a soldier and a war correspondent.
What are memoirs?
This is the name for a male turkey.
What is a gobbler?
This is Harry Potter's owl.
Who is Hedwig?
This is the name of the team that plays at Fenway Park.
Who are the Boston Red Sox?
This annual outdoor NHL game lets professionals hockey players compete in a stadium under the open sky.
What is the Winter Classic?
This famous Churchill speech includes the well-known phrase 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.'
What is the 'The Few' speech?
These were the first group of people in history to use scarecrows.
Who are the Egyptians?
This is Harry's red-haired best friend.
Who is Ron Weasley?
This occurs when a batter hits a fly ball that is caught in fair or foul territory for an out.
What is a fly-out?
In hockey, this term describes a goal scored by a player when their team has fewer players on the ice than the opposing team because of a penalty.
What is a shorthanded goal?
This is the hobby that Churchill enjoyed in his later years.
What is painting?
This is the country that is believed to have started the tradition of carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns.
What is Ireland?
This is the sport played on flying broomsticks at Hogwarts.
What is Quidditch?
This rule allows a runner to advance to the next base without the batter hitting the ball, when the pitcher delivers a wild pitch or the catcher fails to hold it.
What is a passed ball or a wild pitch?
This NHL team won the Stanley Cup in 2018, earning the first championship in franchise history.
Who are the Washington Capitals?
What was Churchill's speech impediment? (Hint: He used to practice saying "The Spanish ships I cannot see for they are not in sight.")
Pronounced "s" as "sh"
This is the approximate date of the autumnal equinox (the start of fall).
What is September 22nd or 23rd?
This is the platform where the Hogwarts express departs.
This is Platform 9 and 3/4.
This is the pitcher famous for recording 5,714 career strikeouts.
Who is Nolan Ryan?