Famous Opponents
Sherlock Holmes and
Who is Professor Moriarty?
In the United States, the most common type is O positive, and the rarest is AB negative.
What are blood types?
This is the last of the four familiar operations in arithmetic.
What is Substraction?
Men themselves have wondered what they see in me.
They try so much but...
...they can't touch my inner mystery.
Phenomenal Woman, Maya Angelou
The Golden State
What is California?
Moby Dick and
Who is Captain Ahab?
A ruler may be divided into inches, but a thermometer is divided into these.
What are degrees?
This is the first human sense.
What is hearing?
Do not go gentle into that good night / Old age should burn and rave at close of day / Rage, rage
What is
… against the dying of the light.
by Dylan Thomas
Old Line State
What is Maryland?
According to some historians, General George Washington gave the name “Old Line State.” Maryland was given that name because with its regular line troops, the Maryland Line, served courageously in many Revolutionary War battles.
Maryland’s second nickname is The Free State. Maryland was first recognized as a “Free State” on November 1, 1864. On that date, the Maryland Constitution of 1864 took effect. By its provisions, slavery within the State’s borders was abolished, and Maryland became a free state.
Alexander Hamilton and
What is Aaron Burr?
Anthracite, the highest grade of coal, is made up almost entirely of this element.
What is carbon?
This is the first of the five vital organs in the human body.
What is the brain?
The other four are: heart, kidney, liver and lungs
Because I could not stop for Death...
What is
he kindly stopped for me.
by Emily Dickinson
The Pine Tree State
What is Maine?
Magic Johnson and
Who is Larry Bird?
Name the three scales of temperature measurement.
What are: Fahrenheit, Celsius, Kelvin
Fahrenheit is a temperature scale based on one proposed in 1724 by the physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686–1736).[1] It uses the degree Fahrenheit (symbol: °F) as the unit.
The degree Celsius (symbol:(°C / ℃) is the unit of temperature based on the centigrade scale.
The kelvin (symbol: K) is the base unit for temperature in the International System of Units (SI). The Kelvin scale is an absolute temperature scale that starts at the lowest possible temperature (absolute zero), taken to be 0 K
This is the last color in the rainbow.
What is violet?
For there is always light,
If only we're brave enough to see it ...
If only we're brave enough to be it.
Amanda Gorman
The Sunflower State
What is Kansas?
Duracell and
What is the Energizer?
Both days and nights are always twelve hours long in this location.
What is the equator?
This is the last president of the United States by first name.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
Well, son, I'll tell you:
Life for me ...
... ain't been no crystal stair.
Langston Hughes
The Show Me State
What is Missouri?
Joe Frazier and
Who is Muhammad Ali?
Oxygen is the third-most abundant element in the universe. Can you name two more of the top six elements?
Hydrogen, Helium, Oxygen, Carbon, Neon, Iron
This country comes after the Czech Republic.
What is Denmark?
Once upon a midnight dreary, While...
... I pondered, weak and weary
Edgar Allen Poe
The Treasure State
What is Montana?
After more than a century of producing gold, silver, copper, and other natural resources, Montana received the official nickname ‘The Treasure State’. It first appeared on the cover of a state promotional booklet in 1895 and gained widespread appeal thereafter.
Despite ‘The Treasure State’ being a fitting nickname, it wasn’t the first, or last, nickname Montana received – it was just the one that stuck.