The United States is the world's #1 producer of meat from three types of common animals. Name two of them
What are chicken, cow/beef, or turkey?
100
This is the official song for the District of Columbia
What is the Star-Spangled Banner?
100
The blockbuster negotiation known as T-TIP
What is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership?
100
Three months after stepping down as Secretary, he was elected President of the United States
Who is Herbert C. Hoover?
100
You might want to eat a WHOLE one of these at the famous Ben's Chili Bowl
What is a "half-smoke"?
200
The United States is the #1 producer of corn as well as this other cereal/grain, which is most commonly used for livestock feed and biofuels
What is sorghum?
200
This DC landmark, built for a cost of $1 million in the 1800s, is currently closed due to damage from a 2011 earthquake
What is the Washington Monument?
200
The Western Hemisphere agreement known as AFTA
What is the Andean Free Trade Agreement?
200
A Secretary that served under Nixon; in 2006 a DC-based, economics-oriented institute was named after him
Who is Peter Peterson?
200
The local chef, famous for ramen at Toki Underground and Asian street food at Maketto, that was a 2016 semi-finalist for best chefs in America (James Beard Foundation)
Who is Erik Bruner-Yang?
300
The United States is the leading country for this dangerous weather phenomenon
What are tornadoes?
300
This street originally served as the northern border for the city of Washington -- it was then known as "Boundary Street"
What is Florida Avenue?
300
The Eastern Hemisphere negotiation known as RCEP
What is the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership?
300
TWO of the five women that have been Secretary (including acting Secretaries)
Who are Penny Pritzker, Rebecca Blank, Mary Good, Barbara Franklin, or Juanita Kreps?
300
The legendary dish served every day by the U.S. Senate's restaurant. The tradition supposedly began around 100 years ago at the request of Senator Fred Dubois of Idaho
What is navy bean soup (or Senate bean soup)?
400
The United States is the #1 producer of this delicious processed product of animal origin, but only the #5 exporter -- France, Italy, and Germany export more!
What is cheese?
400
This was the original name proposed for a post-statehood DC under the 2016 draft state constitution
What is New Columbia?
400
The Middle-eastern trade bloc known as GCC
What is the Gulf Cooperation Council?
400
Brother and son of former mayors of Chicago, this Secretary served under President Clinton from 1997 to 2000.
Who is William (Bill) Daley?
400
The tiny Columbia Heights restaurant, named #2 new restaurant in America in 2016 by Bon Appetit, that often has lines stretching around the block
What is Bad Saint?
500
The year that the United States became the world's #1 producer of petroleum hydrocarbons
What is 2013?
500
TWO of the four letters that are skipped in the DC "alphabet" of streets
What are J, X, Y, or Z?
500
The negotiation among WTO members known as EGA
What is the Environmental Goods Agreement?
500
The position of the Secretary of Commerce in the line of Presidential succession -- after the Vice President but well before the Secretary of Homeland Security
What is 10th? (or, What is just before the Secretary of Labor and just after the Secretary of Agriculture?)
500
President-Elect Trump was deposed in a lawsuit against this DC celebrity chef, who backed out of a deal to open a restaurant in the Trump Hotel