BEACHES
This North Carolina beach shares its name with the site of the first powered flight.
What is Kill Devil Hills?
This North Carolina mountain town is known for its arts scene and sits near the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is Asheville?
This Jewish holiday commemorates the sparing of Israelite homes during the final plague.
What is Passover?
This book by J.K. Rowling begins the story of a young wizard at Hogwarts.
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
This band released the album Rumours, one of the best-selling albums ever.
Who is Fleetwood Mac?
This American breakfast pastry is often glazed and twisted, sometimes filled with cinnamon.
What is cinnamon roll?
This Florida beach city is known for its Art Deco district and lively shoreline.
What is Miami Beach?
This balding peak along the Appalachian Trail near the NC–Tennessee border is famous for its grassy summit.
What is Max Patch?
In the first biblical plague, this river famously turned to blood.
What is the Nile River?
This book series features demigod Percy, son of Poseidon.
What is Percy Jackson & the Olympians?
This Irish rock band is led by Bono.
Who is U2?
This pastry, made by layering butter and dough repeatedly, creates flaky, airy layers.
What is puff pastry?
This Outer Banks island is home to the tallest natural sand dune system in the eastern U.S., found in a state park.
What is Jockey's Ridge State Park?
This long-distance hiking trail runs through North Carolina’s mountains and stretches from Georgia to Maine.
What is the Appalachian Trail?
This disease caused repeated outbreaks in London, including a major one in 1665.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
This Suzanne Collins trilogy includes Katniss Everdeen as its main character.
What is The Hunger Games?
This band, fronted by Freddie Mercury, recorded “Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Who is Queen?
This New Orleans bakery is famous for king cakes, traditionally eaten during Mardi Gras.
What is Haydel's Bakery?
Located in Brazil, this iconic beach shares its name with a famous song by Frank Sinatra.
What is Copacabana?
This mountain, whose name suggests cold weather, is a popular ski destination in Avery County.
What is Sugar Mountain?
This devastating 14th-century pandemic killed millions in Europe and was caused by a bacterium spread by fleas.
What is the Black Death?
This fantasy series by C.S. Lewis begins with a trip through a wardrobe.
What is The Chronicles of Narnia?
This progressive rock band released the album The Dark Side of the Moon
Who is Pink Floyd?
This San Francisco bakery is known worldwide for its sourdough bread.
What is Boudin Bakery?
Stretching along Sydney, this beach is one of Australia’s most famous tourist spots.
What is Bondi Beach?
This mountain is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River.
What is Mount Mitchell?
This trade route helped spread the Black Death from Asia to Europe.
What is the Silk Road?
This novel by Joseph Conrad explores colonialism through a journey into Africa.
What is Heart of Darkness?
This band’s drummer, Phil Collins, later became a successful solo artist.
Who is Genesis?
This type of yeast-leavened French bread is long, thin, and crisp on the outside.
What is a baguette?
This The Beach Boys song celebrates surfing in California.
What is Surfin' USA?
This rugged gorge in western North Carolina is often called the “Grand Canyon of the East.”
What is Linville Gorge?
This European city famously ordered quarantines and established early public health measures during plague outbreaks.
What is Venice?
This novel by Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and centers on Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman.
What is Beloved?
This alternative rock band released OK Computer in 1997.
Who is Radiohead?
This Italian dessert, a coffee-flavored layered cake, is often found in bakeries worldwide.
What is tiramisu?
This animated movie features a Hawaiian girl and her ocean adventures.
What is Moana?
This process forms many mountains when tectonic plates collide.
What is orogeny/convergent plate boundary?
This term refers to a disease outbreak that spreads across multiple countries or continents.
What is a pandemic?
This complex novel by James Joyce follows Leopold Bloom through a single day in Dublin.
What is Ulysses?
This British band, known for Animals and The Wall, was founded by Syd Barrett.
Who is Pink Floyd?
This dense, fruit-filled cake is popular in the UK during Christmas.
What is Christmas pudding?
This pink sand beach is located on Harbour Island in this Atlantic country.
What is Bahamas?
This famous mountain pass in the Alps was crossed by Napoleon Bonaparte.
What is the Great St. Bernard Pass?
This branch of science studies how diseases spread and can be controlled.
What is epidemiology?
This novel by William Faulkner uses multiple narrators to tell the story of the Compson family.
What is The Sound and the Fury?
This American rock band, led by Tom Morello, fused rap and heavy metal in albums like Rage Against the Machine.
Who is Rage Against the Machine?
This process, often used in bread baking, allows dough to rise before baking.
What is proofing?
This natural process causes sand to move along the shoreline due to wave action.
What is Longshore Drift?
This is the name for a line connecting points of equal elevation on a map.
What is a contour line?
This book of the Bible contains the story of the Ten Plagues.
What is Book of Exodus?
This Shakespeare tragedy features the Prince of Denmark seeking revenge.
What is Hamlet?
This American band released Remain in Light and was known for its innovative use of African polyrhythms in rock.
Who is Talking Heads?
These small, round French cakes are often filled with cream or fruit and have a crisp shell.
What are macarons?
These tiny organisms often create white sandy beaches through their skeletal remains.
What are coral?
This term describes a bowl-shaped depression carved by glaciers on a mountain.
What is a cirque?
This final and most devastating plague struck the firstborn of Egypt.
What is the Death of the Firstborn?
This dystopian novel by Margaret Atwood is set in the Republic of Gilead.
What is The Handmaid's Tale?
This band helped define country rock in the 1970s and included members from The Byrds and Poco
Who is Eagles?
This Italian bread, traditionally eaten at Easter, is slightly sweet and shaped like a ring or braid.
What is Pane di Pasqua?
This scale measures wave strength and is often used to describe ocean conditions
What is the Beaufort Scale?
In The Sound of Music, this Austrian city near the Alps serves as the setting.
What is Salzburg?
This port city was one of the first in Europe where the Black Death was recorded in 1347.
What is Messina?
This novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky follows Raskolnikov after he commits a murder.
What is Crime and Punishment?
This country-rock band, famous for “Chicken Fried,” hails from Georgia.
Who is Zac Brown Band?
This type of bread from Germany is dense, dark, and often made with rye and caraway seeds.
What is pumpernickel?
This type of dune forms when sand is blown inland and stabilized by vegetation.
What are coastal dunes?
This fictional mountain range is home to dragons in Game of Thrones.
What are the Frostfangs?
This English scientist helped develop early ideas about germs centuries after plague outbreaks.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
This postmodern novel by Thomas Pynchon is known for its complexity and WWII setting.
What is Gravity's Rainbow?
This Canadian band, led by Neil Peart, is known for complex time signatures and albums like 2112.
Who is Rush?
This French term refers to a master baker who has completed an apprenticeship and is highly skilled in traditional baking.
What is maître boulanger?