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100

Relative to its population, Harford County has one of the highest concentrations of this type of worker in Maryland.

What are federal employees?

100

Baltimore was founded in this year.

What is 1729?

100

Edgar Allen Poe lived, died, and is buried in Baltimore. Which NFL team is named after one of his works?

What is the Baltimore Ravens?

100

This 1988 John Waters’ cult classic was filmed around Baltimore, including at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical (Mervo) High School.

What is Hairspray?

100

The Port of Baltimore consistently ranks first or near first nationally in this cargo category

What are automobiles and light trucks?

200

Chartered in 1827, this was the first common carrier railroad in the United States.

What is the B&O railroad?

200

Featuring the Baltimore City Fire Department, this 2004 movie was set and filmed in Baltimore.

What is Ladder 49?

200

This interstate gives Harford County outsized influence in Maryland’s supply chain economy

What is Interstate 95?

300

This Harford County city became a key passageway for freedom seekers due to its rail access, waterfront, and proximity to Pennsylvania.

What is Havre de Grace?

300

This institution, founded in 1914, holds over 1,000 works by French impressionist Henri Matisse and recently hosted a blockbuster solo exhibition by an artist with strong Baltimore ties that drew a record 85,000 visitors.

What is the Baltimore Museum of Art?   

300

This Netflix series used a Joppa warehouse for interior scenes and the Liriodendron Mansion in Bel Air

What is House of Cards?

300

Many workers serving port logistics live in counties north of Baltimore, including this one

What is Harford County?

400

This Harford County installation is the U.S. Army’s premier research, development, testing, and evaluation center.

What is Aberdeen Proving Ground?

400

Invented, manufactured, and named in Baltimore, Maryland in 1890, the name of this "talking board" was reportedly spelled out by the board itself during a seance at 529 N. Charles St.

What is the Ouija Board?

400

Located in downtown Baltimore, this is the world’s largest, four-dial, gravity-driven, non-chiming clock.

What is the Bromo Seltzer Arts Tower?

500

There are 15/16?? Higher Education Institutions in the Central Region of Maryland. Name 5 of the institutions.

Johns Hopkins, UM Baltimore, Univ. of Baltimore, Morgan, Coppin, MD Institute of Art (MICA), Notre Dame of MD, Loyola, Baltimore City Community College, UMBC, Towson, Goucher, Stevenson, CCBC, Harford Community College  

500

Harford County’s location made it strategically important during this early American conflict.

What is the Revolutionary War?

500

This dark satirical comedy based in Towson, MD starred Kathleen Turner as a seemingly perfect suburban housewife turned murderer

What is Serial Mom?

500

This employer in the health care and life sciences industry is the largest employer in the central region, supporting approximately 149,000 jobs across Maryland, and consistently ranking as a top employer

What is Johns Hopkins University and Health System?

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