Pop Culture
This character made their theatrical debut in the 1940 animated short A Wild Hare.
Who is Bugs Bunny?
How many major islands make up the Hawaiian Islands?
What is eight?
This popular type of baking dish originated from glass used in battery jars and railroad lanterns.
What is Pyrex?
The name of this Washington region sounds like it belongs in a Western movie, and it is one of the state’s major wine-growing regions.
What is Horse Heaven Hills?
According to this playground legend, saying her name three times into a mirror in a dark room will summon a ghostly figure.
Who is Bloody Mary?
This pathogen that causes acute gastroenteritis was presumed to have caused a large outbreak on the Washington Pacific Crest Trail in 2023.
What is norovirus?
This movie starring Ethan Hawke takes place in Vienna and involves the two main characters meeting on a train.
What is Before Sunrise?
This volcanic eruption in Washington State was preceded by a massive landslide and was one of the few to occur laterally, contributing to its massive devastation.
What is the Mount St. Helens eruption?
This current Washington state park hosted the never-employed WWII defense system Battery 248 overlooking Puget Sound.
What is Fort Ebey State Park?
This small oyster is Washington’s only native oyster species.
What is the Olympia oyster?
Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel introduced this Transylvanian count, who became the archetype for the modern vampire.
Who is Dracula?
This virus primarily infects pepper plants and is sometimes used as an indicator of the amount of fecal material in wastewater.
What is pepper mild mottle virus, or PMMoV?
This Seattle-based radio station is famous for its live in-studio performances, often compared to NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts.
What is KEXP?
With a maximum depth of almost 1,500 feet, this 50-mile-long lake is the deepest in Washington and the third-deepest freshwater lake in the United States.
What is Lake Chelan?
These two teams finished first and second in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Who are Spain and Argentina?
This cheese is traditionally used in a classic Greek salad and is commonly made from sheep’s milk or a mixture of sheep’s and goat’s milk.
This cheese is traditionally used in a classic Greek salad and is commonly made from sheep’s milk or a mixture of sheep’s and goat’s milk.
This author wrote The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, featuring the Headless Horseman.
Who is Washington Irving?
These two bacterial pathogens belong to the same genus but different species, and both can cause gastrointestinal illness. One has caused multiple outbreaks associated with contaminated water, while the other is associated with eating raw or undercooked seafood.
What are Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio parahaemolyticus?
This controversial 1997 racing game rewarded players for running over pedestrians and cows.
What is Carmageddon?
This European country has more islands than any other country in the world.
What is Sweden?
This ancient city was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
This ancient city was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
This spice is made from the dried stigma of a flower and is among the most expensive spices by weigh
What is saffron?
This 1692 Massachusetts panic led to more than 200 people being accused of witchcraft and 20 being executed.
What are the Salem witch trials?
This infectious agent contains no DNA or RNA and can cause diseases such as chronic wasting disease in deer and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
What is a prion?
This K-pop group became the first act in Billboard 200 history to have its first nine charting albums all debut at No. 1.
Who are Stray Kids?
This river flows through or along the border of 10 countries, more than any other river in the world.
What is the Danube?
In 1803, the United States purchased this enormous territory from France for about $15 million.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
French diners would traditionally wear napkins over their heads while eating this outlawed delicacy.
What is ortolan?
In this 1985 cult horror comedy, medical student Herbert West develops a glowing serum that can bring the dead back to life.
What is Re-Animator?
This bacterium is famous for surviving inside macrophages and causes a disease historically associated with “consumption.”
What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis?