Obscure Sports Rules
In Major League Baseball, this happens when a fair ball bounces over the outfield fence, awarding the batter two bases.
What is a ground rule double?
This Dr. Seuss character causes chaos for Sally and her brother on a rainy day while wearing a tall, striped accessory.
Known for its lush farmlands in the south and suburbs in the north, this is the official state nickname of New Jersey.
What is The Garden State?
This theorem states that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted this document, formally severing ties with Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In the NFL, if a player catches a kickoff or punt and calls for this, they have the rare option to attempt a "free kick" field goal on the next play.
What is a fair kick?
In this E.B. White classic, a clever spider saves a pig named Wilbur by weaving words like "Some Pig" into her web.
Standing six stories tall in Margate, NJ, this architectural landmark is the world's largest (and arguably only) wooden elephant.
Who is Lucy?
To find the sum of the interior angles of any polygon with n sides, you use this formula.
What is $(n - 2) \times 180?
Ratified in 1865, this amendment to the Constitution officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
In Golf, if a player accidentally hits their own ball with their club during a practice swing while the ball is "in play," they are typically assessed this many penalty strokes.
What is one?
In Roald Dahl's Matilda, this terrifying headmistress enjoys throwing children by their pigtails.
Who is Miss Trunchbull?
In 1937, this massive German airship famously caught fire and crashed while attempting to land at Lakehurst Naval Air Station.
What is the Hindenberg?
This term refers to a line that touches a circle at exactly one point without crossing through it.
What is a tangent?
During the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted this series of programs and reforms to lift the U.S. out of the Great Depression.
What is The New Deal?
In Basketball, if a player remains in the "paint" for more than this many seconds while their team has the ball, a turnover is called.
What is three seconds?
Max travels to an island of monsters after being sent to bed without supper in this Maurice Sendak book.
What is Where the Wild Things Are?
According to folklore, this winged, hooved creature has haunted the Pine Barrens of South Jersey since the 18th century.
What is the Jersey Devil?
This is the volume formula for a sphere with radius r.
What is V = (4/3)pi r^3?
This 1954 Supreme Court case ruled that "separate but equal" public schools were unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Ed?
In Tennis, this term describes a situation where a player is negatively affected by an opponent’s deliberate shout or movement, resulting in the point being replayed or awarded.
What is a hindrance?
This Lewis Carroll poem, found in Through the Looking-Glass, introduced nonsense words like "frumious" and "galumphing."
What is Jabberwocky?
This famous inventor, known as the "Wizard of Menlo Park," established his industrial research lab in NJ in 1876.
Who is Thomas Edison?
A circle has a diameter of 20 units. Using 3.14 for pi, this is the circle’s total area.
What is 314? (A=pi*r^2)
These 85 essays, written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, were published to urge New Yorkers to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
What are the Federalist Papers?