Lakes that are Great (but not necessarily the Great Lakes)
Travel and Tourism
Weather Events
Bullies in Pop Culture
I Girlbossed Too Hard
Sea Creatures
Potpourri
100
Great Bear Lake is the largest lake entirely within this country, taking up about 12,000 sq. miles of the Northwest Territory
What is Canada?
100
The ancient city of Machu Picchu is located in Peru, high in this mountain range.
What are the Andes?
100
Cases of this color rain have been recorded since Homer's Iliad and are considered a bad omen. Scientists believe this phenomenon is caused by aerial spores of green microalgae. The most recent occurrences have been in Spain, Portugal and Iran.
What is red? (called Blood Rain)
100
This bully, created by Charles Schulz and sister to Linus, is always able to convince Charlie Brown she's not going to pull the football away as he barrels for it. And she always does it anyway.
Who is Lucy Van Pelt?
100
For 7 seasons, from 1986-1993, this TV sitcom featured 4 girl-bosses running an interior decoration firm in Atlanta.
What is Designing Women?
100
Also known as the orca, this black and white sea creature is actually part of the dolphin family, though its name would suggest otherwise.
What is a killer whale?
100
One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, these were built as ceremonial burial vaults for Egyptian pharaohs.
What are the Great Pyramids of Giza?
200
The smallest of the Great Lakes, this one is between New York and the Canadian province that shares its name. The US/Canada border spans it center. Its average depth is 283 feet, maximum depth 802 feet, area is 7340 square miles.
What is Lake Ontario?
200
Paris is the City of Love. This is the City of Brotherly Love.
What is Philadelphia?
200
According to Dolbert's Law, you can take the frequency of this animal sound in 14 seconds, add 40 and get the approximate temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
What are cricket chirps?
200
In this 1976 movie based on a Stephen King novel, the titular character is bullied by Chris Hargensen and her boyfriend Billy Nolan, culminating in a pigs-blood soaked prom.
What is Carrie?
200
She owned and ran her own business in a largely male dominated industry and invented the Little Black Dress. She was financially independent and never had a husband.
She was even quoted as saying, “The moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses, I chose my dresses.”
Who is Coco Chanel?
200
In Greek, this sea creature is known as monodon monoceros, which translates to one tooth, one horn.
What is a narwhal?
200
Celebrated this past Sunday, "May the Fourth be with you” is the official tagline of the galaxy-wide holiday to celebrate this film franchise.
What is Star Wars?
300
Local languages give this names such as Ukerewe and Nyanza, but we know this, the largest lake in Africa by the name of the second longest running English monarch.
What is Lake Victoria?
(not to be confused with Victoria Lake which is in Newfoundland)
300
This iconic structure (technically a mausoleum) is found in Agra, India and is considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
What is the Taj Mahal?
300
Cape Farewell, on this island (that is not for sale, no matter how many times the President asks), is the windiest place on earth.
What is Greenland?
300
Nurse Ratched appears in this film, as one of cinema’s harshest villains, icy right down to her orthopedic shoes.
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
300
For daring to be a single mother by choice, this fictional TV news anchor earned the wrath of then-Vice President Dan Quayle in 1992.
Who is Murphy Brown?
300
Clownfish and sea anemonies have this kind of a relationship (starting with an S), one that benefits each of them. The anemonies provide safe housing for the clownfish, while the clown fish clean the anemone of debris.
What is Symbiotic?
300
Known for his habit of whacking his right hind foot against the ground, this Disney bunny is Bambi's best friend.
Who is Thumper?
400
A volcanic lake forms in the caldera of a volcano. Lake Toba, located on this Indonesian island, known for coffee, has a surface area of 448 square miles.
What is Sumatra?
400
This traditional and National dish of Spain made with saffron-infused rice and various meats or seafood.
What is Paella?
400
From 1873-1877, people migrating to the Great Plains coincided with devastating swarms of this species of grasshopper. They mainly stayed in the Rocky Mountains until a jet stream facilitated movement to the Plains, where they bred and devoured all the crops (as well as fences, wool and anything else in their path).
What are locusts?
400
R Lee Ermey plays the bully of a drill sergeant, preparing recruits for the reality of the war in Vietnam, in this 1987 Stanley Kubrick film.
What is Full Metal Jacket?
400
In 1955, this actress and star of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company, through her marriage to company president Alfred Steele. After his death in 1959, she was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forced to retire in 1973.
Who is Joan Crawford?
400
This sea creature with 3 hearts and 8 limbs has 3 basic defense mechanisms, ink propulsion, jet propulsion and camouflage.
what is the octopus?
400
Known as "stabilizers" outside the U.S., this teaching aid with a two-word name was introduced by the Huffy company in 1949. Their design hasn't changed much since then and have been largely replaced by balance bikes since 1997.
What are training wheels
500
Lake Baikal, located in the south-central area of this country, ranks 1st among freshwater lakes in volume. With a volume of approximately 5500 cubic miles, it contains approximately 20% of the world's total surface fresh water.
What is Russia?
500
The terrifyingly named Harpy Eagle has a wingspan of up to seven feet and talons that can grow as big as grizzly bear paws. Be careful if you go to visit this country's famous canal, Harpy is the national animal and could eat you for breakfast.
What is Panama?
500
As the Great Depression intensified, drought and decades of over-farming in the Southern Plains dried out the topsoil and a series of this kind of storm from 1933 to 1939 blew it eastward. This lead to 2.5 million "Okies" leaving their home states like Texas, Kansas and of course, Oklahoma.
What is a dust storm?
500
If there's anything worse than a bully, it's a bully who can turn on the charm to trick your own mom into thinking he's an angel. Eddie Haskell was able to do that on this show, always mean to the title character and overly sweet to his mom, June.
What is Leave it To Beaver?
500
Born Sarah Breedlove in 1867, this Louisiana native was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist and is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Who is Madam CJ Walker?
500
Often mistaken for the jellyfish, this hydrozoan found in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean. its stings cause immediate and excruciating pain, often resulting in welts or blisters on the skin, though is rarely fatal.
What is the Man-O-War?
500
The Halifax Gibbet was an early version of this apparatus, used in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England. It was used in Ireland as early as 1307 as an alternative to beheading by axe or sword.
What is a guillotine?