EAGLE "TIME"
HUDSON'S BAY HISTORY
THREE OF A KIND
THE "CATEGORY" CATEGORY
RHYME TIME
100
The F-15 Eagle, traveling at max speed, could fly from New York to Tokyo in just over 4 of these
(Your response will be a unit of time, such as 'seconds' or 'centuries')
What are hours?
100
The actual body of water called the Hudson's Bay is located in this country
What is Canada?
100
Tap, square, break
What are dances?
100
The newest category of these awards is 'Best Casting', introduced in 2025
What are the Academy Awards (or Oscars)?
100
Not quite annual
(Your response will be in the form of two rhyming words.)
What is nearly yearly?
200
A bald eagle's migration takes, on average, 8 to 15 of these to complete
(Your response will be a unit of time, such as 'seconds' or 'centuries')
What are days?
200
In 1825, the Hudson's Bay Company chose this site as their headquarters for their Pacific Northwest trade
What is Fort Vancouver?
200
Umaga, Giulia, Triple H
Who are WWE Wrestlers?
200
It's the most severe category of hurricane, with wind speeds exceeding 157 miles per hour
What is Category 5?
200
Ginormous mushroom
(Your response will be in the form of two rhyming words.)
What is a humongous fungus?
300
Altair, the brightest star in the Aquila constellation (Latin for 'eagle'), is also one of the closest stars to Earth - it would take light from Altair only 17 of these to reach the Earth
(Your response will be a unit of time, such as 'seconds' or 'centuries')
What are years?
300
The Hudson's Bay Company had a monopoly on the trade of these
What are furs?
300
Tiger, mako, thresher
What are sharks?
300
Kākāpō, axolotls, and orangutans have all been categorized as this status by the International Union for Conservation of Nature
What is "critically endangered"?
300
Odd group of connected mountains
(Your response will be in the form of two rhyming words.)
What is a strange range?
400
The crew of the Lunar Eagle Module on the Apollo 11 mission spent 21.6 of these on the moon's surface
What are hours?
400
Between 1820 and 1870, the Husdon's Bay Company was a de facto government of much of northernmost America, and even printed and issued its own this
What is money / currency?
400
Ode, sonnet, acrostic
What are (types of) poetry?
400
The FIDE categorizes tournaments of this board game based on the average Elo rating of competitors
What is chess?
400
Edible crustacean gangster
(Your response will be in the form of two rhyming words.)
What is a lobster mobster?
500
To become an Eagle Scout, you must have been a Life Scout for at least six of these
What are months?
500
Hudson's Bay was discovered in 1610 by the British explorer Henry Hudson, while he was searching for this fabled route
What is the Northwest Passage?
500
Moral, legal, bar
What are codes?
500
Mood, tense, case, and voice are all grammatical categories in this scientific discipline
What is linguistics?
500
Written text of a movie about an underground burial chamber
(Your response will be in the form of two rhyming words.)
What is a crypt script?