Silver Lake
Video Games
(mostly old ones)
(mostly old ones)
Sleep and Pasta
Sports
Espionage
100
Many of the streets in Silver Lake have names that relate to the novel Ivanhoe. Name the author of the book.
Sir Walter Scott
100
What is the best selling video game of all time?
Minecraft
100
True or false, humans are the only mammal that will purposely delay its own sleep (like, we are the only ones that will force ourselves to stay awake even when tired).
True
100
In soccer, how many players does each team have on the pitch?
11
100
Famous fictional British spy
James Bond
200
Name at least one Native group that first inhabited the area now called Silver Lake.
Chumash, Tongva, and Kizh.
200
The best-selling Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game combined Super Mario Brothers with what other game?
Duck Hunt
200
Name this pasta that is about the size of rice.
Orzo
200
In hockey, how many players does each team have on the ice?
6
200
A Black abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the US Civil War. After escaping from captivity, she made 19 missions to help at least 300 enslaved people to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
300
The jogging path around the reservoir is about how long?
2.2 miles
300
What product did Nintendo make BEFORE making video games?
Playing cards
300
Approximately how much of your lifetime is spent sleeping?
One third. That means, if you live 100 years you likely slept about 33.3 years in total.
300
What is the most popular sport in India?
Cricket
300
What does CIA stand for?
Central Intelligence Agency
400
The name of the famous Japanese American-owned floral shop on Hyperion Avenue. It opened in 1929 and closed in 2006. Its sign still stands close to Trader Joe's.
Tokio
400
The first commercially successful video game.
Pong, a table tennis–themed arcade game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics.
400
Pasta that looks like either a bowtie or butterfly.
Farfalle
400
A team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh.
Bobsled
400
This Irish-American tailor and spy was introduced to Alexander Hamilton shortly after Hamilton arrived in New York.
Okieriete Onaodowan played him in the musical.
Hercules Mulligan
500
Name 2 of the 3 reservoirs in Silver Lake. Bonus 250 points if you name all 3.
Silver Lake, Ivanhoe, and Rowena
500
What food was the Pac Man modeled after?
Pac Man creator Toru Iwatani was eating pizza when he came up with the Pac Man.
500
In what country was pasta first eaten?
China
500
A ball sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball.
Racquetball or Squash (either is acceptable)
500
Widely considered America's first spy, he is best remembered for his speech before being hanged following the Battle of Long Island, in which he apparently said, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
Nathan Hale