Nature Nerds
Passport to Summer
Campfire Tales & Cinema Trails
Camping 101
Songs of the Summer
100
This vitamin, known for boosting your mood, is often produced when you're in the sun.
What is Vitamin D?
100
In the Southern Hemisphere, summer begins in this month.
What is December?
100
This 1975 film about the dangers of the ocean became the first major summer blockbuster.
What is Jaws?
100
Hanging up food is a common way of protecting supplies from unwanted predators. This system, known as a "BLANK Bag", was named after these campsite thieves.
What are bears?
100
This 2014 festival anthem by Calvin Harris features about 70 unique words repeated over 3 minutes and 44 seconds, with the title word making up roughly 8% of the lyrics.
What is "Summer"?
200
True or False: Poison ivy has 3 leaves.
What is True?
200
This European country celebrates La Tomatina, a summer festival known as "the biggest food fight in the world", by throwing tomatoes at other participants.
What is Spain?
200
In this classic horror movie, a group of kids spend their summer at Camp Crystal Lake, trying to avoid the hockey-mask wearing Jason Voorhees.
What is Friday the 13th?
200
This organization, founded in 1910, is credited with popularizing outdoor education and camping for boys in the U.S.
What is the Boy Scouts of America?
200
While there is no definitive correlation between the two, this 1983 Bananarama hit shares it's name with Taylor Swift's 2019 track.
What is "Cruel Summer"?
300
In basic navigation, moss tends to grow more heavily on this side of trees in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the north side?
300
This country celebrates Midsummer with maypole dancing, flower crowns and herring.
What is Sweden?
300
In the Percy Jackson series, demigod children attend this summer camp for training.
What is Camp Half-Blood?
300
This Californian national park is the home of "Half Dome", a famous rock formation climbed by 50,000 people a year.
What is Yosemite?
300
What is "Summer Nights"?
400
If you encounter this type of bear in the wild, your best form of defense is "playing dead".
What is a grizzly bear?
400
In this South Asian county, the summer monsoon season (June through September) brings over 70% of the nation's annual rainfall, vital for their agriculture and economy.
What is India?
400
This now cult-classic comedy was originally a box office flop when it premiered in 2001, though many of the original cast members moved on to have successful careers.
What is Wet Hot American Summer?
400
This colloquial phrase helps campers protect nature by cleaning up, staying on trails, and leaving the outdoors as they found them.
What is Leave No Trace?
400
This haunting 2012 hit by Lana Del Rey describes feeling blue despite the heat, "cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99", and is often associated with moody summer nights.
What is "Summertime Sadness"?
500
During extreme periods of heat or drought, some animals enter this state of dormancy, which is the opposite of hibernation.
What is estivation?
500
The Midnight Sun, a phenomenon where the sun doesn't set, is visible in this Arctic Nation.
What is Norway?
500
This 1961 Disney film was originally based on a German children's novel titled "Lottie and Lisa" and is partially set at a summer-camp.
What is The Parent Trap?
500
This commonly used navigational tool is mostly known by it's acronym - GPS.
What is Global Positioning System?
500
This 1985 Bryan Adams song recalls a memorable time during his youth, saying "those were the best days of my life".
What is "Summer of '69"?