Geography
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100

Term meaning “of or relating to the sea or ocean”; also relating to navigation by watercraft

What is marine?

100

This 1976 sports drama launched a popular franchise featuring a boxer played by Sylvester Stallone.

What is Rocky?

100

Main computer input device for text.

What is the keyboard?

100

This major sporting event takes place every four years.

What are the Olympic Games? 

Fun Fact: The last time the Olympic gold medal was made of solid gold was 1912.

100

If you receive this red flower, it signifies the sender’s love.

What is a rose?

100

One of two states that is rectangular in shape.

- Colorado

- California

- Maine

- Vermont

- Wyoming

- New Mexico

- Nevada

- Rhode Island


What is Colorado or Wyoming?

200

An image of a place, city, state, or the world, drawn to scale.

What is map/a map?

200

This 1977 romantic film stars Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.

What is Annie Hall?

200

The largest planet in our solar system.

What is Jupiter?

200

When you hear the crackling sound coming from this, get ready to sing some songs or tell a story.

What is a campfire?

200

This octagonal red sign is the universal sign for this.

What is “stop”?

200

The state of Washington is home to the largest building in the world, which belongs to this aviation company.

A.) GE Aviation

B.) Boeing

C.) Lockheed Martin

What is Boeing?

B. 

400

Spooky term that describes a deserted village or town with remains of infrastructure and buildings.

What is ghost town?

400

Louise Fletcher plays this character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the nemesis of Jack Nicholson’s character.

Who is Nurse Ratched?

400

Dutch artist who painted the famous painting The Starry Night.

Who is Vincent van Gogh?

400

On this continent, many shops close for the month of August.

A.) Australia

B.) Africa

C.) Europe

What is Europe?

C. 

400

This is the only red precious gemstone.

What is the ruby?

400

This state has the largest economy in the United States.

A.) Texas

B.) New York

C.) California

D.) Florida

What is California?

C.

600

A barrier that restricts the flow of water in a river or creek, whether built by people or created by animals.

What is dam?

600

Cary Grant (as Peter Joshua) and Audrey Hepburn (as Regina Lampert) headline this classic 1963 rom-com set in France, in which, unbeknownst to Regina, her husband has been thrown off a train to his death. 

a.) How to Steal a Million

b.) The Grass is Greener

c.) Charade

What is Charade?

C.

600

The process that plants use to convert sunlight to energy.

What is photosynthesis?

600

This popular fruit associated with South Carolina and Georgia is harvested in August.

What is peach?

600

A red necktie is often called this, as it symbolizes authority and confidence in the wearer.

What is a power tie?

600

This state has the most incorporated companies.

A.) Wyoming

B.) Nevada

C.) Delaware

What is Delaware?

C.

800

A chain or collection of islands, such as the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador.

a.) archipelago

b.) beach

c.) subcontinent

What is archipelago?

A.

800

In Good Morning, Vietnam, he plays the lead, a morning radio DJ on a military base.

Who is Robin Williams? He plays irreverent DJ Adrian Cronauer, who has never encountered a rule he could follow.

800

The name of the treaty that ended World War I.

A.) Treaty of Versailles? 

B.) Treaty of Paris

C.) Treaty of Trianon

What is the Treaty of Versailles?

A.

800

This country celebrates Independence Day on August 15.

A.) Pakistan

B.) India

C.) Bangladesh

What is India? 

B.

800

This red vegetable with an edible pink stalk is sometimes mistakenly thought to be a fruit.

What is rhubarb?

800

Alaska is more than twice as large as this giant southern U.S. state.

What is Texas?

1000

A navigable route by waterway.

What is sea lane/shipping route or shipping lane?

1000

This Watergate movie was released in 1976 and stars Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford.

A.) The Final Days

B.) All the President’s Men

C.) The Post

What is All the President’s Men? 

B.

1000

The chemical symbol for gold on the periodic table.

500 extra points for the number.

What is Au?

Its atomic number is 79.

1000

This famous annual meteor shower peaks in August. 

A.) Perseid meteor shower

B.) Leonid meteor shower

C.) Geminid meteor shower

What is the Perseid meteor shower?

A. 

1000

This red “fish” is often mistaken for a crustacean, but it is an echinoderm.

What is a starfish?

1000

This state’s official state song is “Yankee Doodle.”

A.) Connecticut

B.) Massachusetts

C.) New Hampshire

What is Connecticut?

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