National Parks
Music & Musicals
Common Bonds
STEM?
Anagrammed First Ascents
100

What was the first national park?

Yellowstone
100

Mamma Mia is a story created based on the works of what group?

ABBA

100

Sur, Bend, Bear

Big _____

100

(9-3)*(6/2)2

54
100

Adam Ondra: license

Silence

200

What famous author helped establish Yosemite National Park?

John Muir

200

What Broadway musical is named for a major Midwestern city and features songs like "All That Jazz" and "Cell Block Tango"?

+100 if you can name a TV show that contained an iconic spoof of this musical

Chicago

+100: Victorious (will award points if you can corroborate your answer if you didn't write Victorious) 

200
Jug, crimp, pinch

Types of climbing holds

200

What is the name of the tallest grass on earth?

Bamboo

200

Alex Honnold: analeptic

El Capitan

300

Which national park is the newest?

New River Gorge, West Virginia

300

What is the longest-running musical in Broadway history?

The Phantom of the Opera
300

Yard, cubit, league

Units of measurement

300

At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?

-40

300

Jimmy Webb: weep all erks

Sleepwalker

400

List at least 6 of the national parks in California.

+100 points if you can name all of them (there are more than 6).

++100 if you list them in order from southernmost to northernmost.

Joshua Tree
Channel Islands
Death Valley
Pinnacles
Sequoia
Kings Canyon
Yosemite
Lassen Volcanic Park
Redwoods

400

What was Jimi Hendrix's only Top 40 hit song?

All Along the Watchtower

400

Book, gram, in

Social media app endings

400

What is the name of the process by which a cell engulfs a solid particle from the surroundings?

Phagocytosis 

400

Robyn Erbesfield: so red voe

Overdose

500

What date did President Woodrow Wilson sign the act creating the National Park Service?

+100 if you can guess another reason this date (sans the year) is significant.

++100 if you can guess yet another reason this date (sans the year) is significant.

8/25/1916

+100: the first Trader Joe's opened on 8/25

++100: Mahta was born on 8/25 >:)

500

What musical inspired a movie adaptation featuring Antonio Banderas?

Evita

500

Wende, bunny, blackhawk

Lesser known museums in California  

500

Which part of the brain is responsible for regulating basic bodily functions such as breathing and heart rate?

General: brainstem

Specific: medulla oblongata 

500

Margo Hayes: air to zen ail

Realization

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