Cloud Types
Underdogs
Famous Highways
Lost and Found
Clothing
100
This is the subcategory of cloud that refers to a raincloud. It also is the name of one of Harry Potter's broomsticks.
What is Nimbus?
100
The 1980 USA Men's Hockey Team defeated this team at the Lake Placid Olympics, in a game which is now referred to as the Miracle On Ice.
What was the Soviet Union?
100
The historic "Mother Road" begins in Chicago, Illinois and goes through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending in Santa Monica, California.
What is Route 66?
100
This ship was rediscovered in Newfoundland, Canada in 1985 by a Franco-American expedition after it sank from an iceburg in 1912.
What is the Titanic?
100
This type of shoe was worn as a status symbol, and made the wearer taller than they actually were, although they're notoriously difficult to walk in at first.
What are high heels?
200
Generally detached clouds, they look like white fluffy cotton balls. They show vertical motion or thermal uplift of air taking place in the atmosphere.
Cumulus
200
In 2004, the Greece soccer team took home the cup of this continent in a series of thrillers as they took down the likes of France, Czech Republic, and Portugal among other teams.
What is Europe?
200
This parkway connects Skyline Drive in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina with arguably the most scenic mountain drive in the country.
What is the Blue Ridge Parkway?
200
In August 1911, a man hid overnight in a closet at the Louvre Museum in Paris then emerged early the next day, when the building was closed to the public, and stole this famous painting off a wall. In 1913, it was returned.
What is the Mona Lisa?
200
This type of pullover originated in the 1930s in the US for workers in cold New York warehouses. It became popular because of the rise of hip-hop and its iconic appearance in the blockbuster Rocky film.
What is a hoodie?
300
From the Latin word for 'layer' these clouds are usually broad and fairly wide spread appearing like a blanket.
Stratus
300
In the first 16-1 seed upset in tournament history, the Retrievers from UMBC took down this basketball team 74-54.
What is Virginia?
300
Following the longest river in the U.S. and going through Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, this road is the longest scenic highway in the United States.
What is the Great River Road?
300
This Egyptian Pharaoh was buried young, and against all odds, the tomb was discovered nearly untouched by looters in a 1922 excavation led by Howard Carter. In fact, his tomb was the only royal burial found intact in modern times.
Who was King Tutankhamen?
300
Taylor Swift sang about this type of knitted sweater with fastening down the front.
What is a cardigan?
400
From the Latin word for "curl of hair", these clouds are the high, wispy clouds to first appear in advance of a low-pressure area such as a mid-latitude storm system or a tropical system such as a hurricane.
Cirrus
400
Goran Ivanisevic, a tennis star, took home a huge surprise victory of this famous tournament in 2001, after being ranked 125th at the start of the tournament.
What is Wimbledon?
400
Also known as US 1 or Route 1, this highway is a series of bridges connecting Key West and the rest of the Florida Keys to Miami.
What is the Overseas Highway?
400
Lost in an ancient Greek field, this statue depicting Aphrodite without arms was rediscovered by a farmer in 1820.
What is the Venus de Milo?
400
This type of pants were worn by miners who came north in the late 1890s during the Klondike Gold Rush. They were prized because they were so durable.
What are (Levi's) Jeans?
600
Clouds that occur in the middle section of the troposphere are given this special prefix.
What is alto-?
600
Sri Lanka had a series of stunners, beating India and England to advance to the finals before winning their first ever world cup against Australia by just 7 wickets in this sport.
What is cricket?
600
Covering nearly 100 miles along a desolate stretch of road near Area 51 and boasting a speed limit of Warp 7, people often travel this highway hoping to see aliens.
What is the Extraterrestrial Highway?
600
In 2000, the ancient Egyptian city of Thonis-Heracleion, was discovered hidden within this, near modern day Alexandria.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
600
This type of hat is said to have been introduced around 1900. Originally made from wool felt, these hats were worn by Irish farmers as protection from the rain, because the raw wool made these hats naturally waterproof.
What are bucket hats/fisher hats?