US Geography
This is the largest US state by square miles.
What is Alaska?
(Bigger than Texas!)
This will be the next couple in Hills and Valleys to get married.
Who are Jose and Jam?
This is Childish Gambino's real name.
What is Donald Glover?
This is the final book of the Old Testament.
What is Malachi?
(There are 39 books in the Old Testament, and 27 in the New Testament!)
This is the number of degrees that the angles of any triangle add up to.
What is 180?
This is the year Wisconsin became a state.
What is 1848?
(The University of Wisconsin was founded the same year!)
He is the singer of the 2017 track "Hills and Valleys".
Who is Tauren Wells?
This was the year Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards.
What is 2022?
He was the eldest of the 12 sons of Jacob.
Who is Reuben?
(In order, they are Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin)
This film franchise, starring Tom Cruise, released its 8th and final film last month (May 2025).
What is Mission Impossible?
(Josh Sr. loves these)
This state’s city of Carbondale lies at the intersection of paths of totality of the 2017 and 2024 solar eclipses.
What is Illinois?
This is the number of people in the Hills and Valleys Slack group whose name begins with either "C" or "J".
What is 9?
(Carol, Chris, Christian, Cole, Jasmine, Jam, Jose, Josh Jr., Josh Sr)
This was Billboard's Song of the Summer in 2017, and its YouTube video has the second-most views ever.
What is Despacito?
(The video with the most views is "Baby Shark")
Of the seven churches that were written to in Revelation 2-3, this one shares its name with a historic American city.
What is Philadelphia?
(The seven churches written to are Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea)
This was the year that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 was released to theaters.
What is 2011?
This is the number of US state capital cities further west of Los Angeles by longitude.
What is 6?
(Honolulu, Juneau, Olympia, Salem, Sacramento, Carson City)
This is the number of people in the Hills & Valleys Slack group.
What is 19?
This person holds the record for being the youngest artist in music history to debut three #1 Hits on the Billboard Hot 100.
Who is Olivia Rodrigo?
(Driver's License, Good 4 u, and Vampire)
This is the shortest book of the Bible by number of verses.
What is 2 John?
(The shortest book of the Bible by word count is 3 John)
This is the tallest volcano in Africa.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
(With an altitude of 19,341 ft, is also the tallest mountain in Africa overall)
The Bank of America Plaza - the tallest building in any US state capital - is known locally as "the pencil building" and is located in this city’s Downtown.
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
(The skyscraper has 55 stories and stands 1,023 ft.)
This is the month that the most people have birthdays in the Hills & Valleys group.
(There are 5 people with birthdays in this month!)
What is January?
(Cole, Aubree, Jam, Josh Jr., & Austin)
This is the closest 2026 World Cup host city by driving distance to Madison.
What is Kansas City?
These are the three books of the Bible in which the story of Hezekiah and Sennacherib is told.
(List them all)
What are 2 Kings, 2 Chronicles, and Isaiah?
The current World Chess Champion was born in this country.
What is India?
(Gukesh Dommaraju, at age 18, became the youngest World Champion in history on December 12, 2024)