Left-Coast Geography
Dance the Night Away
Last Summer Fling
It’s Over
Happy Birthday, September Baby
100
This U.S. city is the home of the world-famous Space Needle.
Answer: What is Seattle? The Space Needle was built for the 1962 World’s Fair, a futuristic fair with a 21st-century theme
100
The waltz and the foxtrot are examples of this type of dance.
Answer: What is ballroom?
100
Rafters who navigate rapids go through this type of water.
Answer: What is white water? Small groups of around six occupy an inflatable raft, while groups of white-water tubers ride individually in a tire inner tube
100
When someone falls off a ship into the water, he or she is said to go here.
Answer: What is overboard?
100
This is one of the two failed Republican candidates in the 2016 primary race for U.S. president who celebrate their birthday on the same day. Born September 6, 1962, he is the governor of New Jersey. Born September 6, 1954, she was once the CEO of HP.
Answer: Who is Chris Christie or Carly Fiorina?
200
This is one of Los Cabos, the popular Mexican tourist resorts at the tip of Baja California.
Answer: What is Cabo San Lucas or San José del Cabo? Los Cabos means “The Capes.”
200
Ballet has this number of basic positions.
Answer: What is five?
200
During the summer, the courts are filled with singles and doubles of all ages who love to play this sport that has curious scoring.
Answer: What is tennis? In tennis, love equals zero, and the first four points are 15, 30, 40, and “advantage.” A tie at 40–40 is called “deuce.”
200
Weeds that grow out of control are known as this.
Answer: What is overgrowth?
200
Known as Mr. Jack and allegedly born on or around September 5, 1846 or 1850—no one knows for sure—this entrepreneur founded a whiskey company in Lynchburg, Tennessee, that bears his name.
Answer: Who is Jack Daniel? No one knows his real birthday, but it is celebrated during September. He began distilling as a child and founded Jack Daniel’s when he took over a distillery
300
This California city is famous for its cable cars.
Answer: What is San Francisco? Andrew Smith Hallidie introduced the first cable car in 1873. After he witnessed horses slipping and falling to their deaths on San Francisco’s cobbled inclines, he modified the cable car he had used for mining during the Gold Rush
300
This type of dance requires metal plates on the bottoms of shoes.
Answer: What is tap dancing? According to Britannica, “Tap originated in the United States through the fusion of several ethnic percussive dances, primarily African tribal dances and Scottish, Irish, and English clog dances, hornpipes, and jigs.”
300
This is “up” along the beaches of the Pacific Ocean and the beaches of Hawaii.
Answer: What is surf’s (or surf)? “Surf’s up” means there are sufficient waves breaking for good surfing.
300
A Type A personality who does exceptionally well in business is known as this type of over.
Answer: What is overachiever?
300
Born September 30, 1935, this popular crooner’s greatest hits include “Chances Are,” “The Twelfth of Never,” and “Misty.”
Answer: Who is Johnny Mathis?
400
This Mexican tourist destination is famous for its La Quebrada cliff divers.
Answer: What is Acapulco? The divers plunge 115 feet into the gulley below the cliff. Waters in the gulley vary from six to 16 feet in depth.
400
In ballet, a pirouette is this type of step.
Answer: What is a spin or a turn?
400
This competitive water activity can take place from a low board, a high board, or a platform.
Answer: What is diving?
400
A guest who visits for too long does this to their welcome.
Answer: What is overstay?
400
Born September 16, 1956, this magician shares the name of a Charles Dickens classic novel.
Answer: Who is David Copperfield?
500
This Alaskan island chain juts into the Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea.
Answer: What are the Aleutian Islands?
500
In a 1961 tune about a certain type of twist, Joey Dee and the Startliters sang: Well, they’ve got a new dance and it goes like this
 (Bop shoo-op, a bop bop shoo-op)
 Yeah, the name of the dance is [this].
Answer: What is the peppermint twist? The song was “The Peppermint Twist.” The twist got its start at New York City’s Peppermint Lounge in 1960.
500
There aren’t many of these left in North America, but during the summer, people watch movies at this type of outdoor theater.
Answer: What is drive-in?
500
A person who forgot to set an alarm runs the risk of doing this.
Answer: What is oversleep?
500
Born September 19, 1974, he succeeded Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show.
Answer: Who is Jimmy Fallon? He took Leno’s seat in 2014 and is the current host of The Tonight Show.
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