Christmas Trivia
Hindsight 2020
The National Park Service
Jeopardy!
Potpourri
100

The country where the Christmas tree tradition started

What is Germany?

100

This holiday was on the same night as the end of daylight savings time this year, which only happens once in a blue moon

What is Halloween?

100

The Antiquities Act of this year created the Nat'l Park Service

What is 1916?

100

Alex Trebek had this job before becoming jeopardy host

What is a news anchor?

100

The skunk ape is the Florida version of this legendary humanoid

What is Bigfoot? (Maybe you should be asking where is bigfoot?)

200

The best selling christmas song (and single) of all time

What is Bing Crosby's White Christmas?

200

This Supreme Court Justice passed away this year due to complications with pancreatic cancer.

Who was Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg?

200

The first land set aside for protection by the US gov't under President Abraham Lincoln in 1864

What is Yosemite Nat'l Park (but at the time it was a state park)

200

If you've been a contestant on Jeopardy, you can't be a contestant on this game show

What is Wheel of Fortune?

200

Lift your spirits with potpourri that contains these leaves, a mainstay of koalas

What are Eucalyptus leaves?

300

The number of ghosts Scrooge was visited by in A Christmas Carol

What is 4? That book sucks

300

January 1st was on this day of the week in 2020?

What is Wednesday?

300

This state has the most Nat'l Parks

What is California (8 parks exclusively, 1 shared park)
300

The most common category on jeopardy

What is Before & After?

300

Shaped like a bow tie, this pasta has a name that means butterflies in Italian

What is Farfalle?

400
St. Nicholas was born in what would become this modern day country

What is Turkey?

400

The Pentagon released footage of these in April

What are UFOs?

400

The most recent Nat'l Park

What is White Sands, New Mexico (Dec 20, 2019)

400

The record for most consecutive games won

What is 74?

400

Workers in the New Deal's agency, the CCC, planted more than 2 billion trees in the 20th century to help fight erosion

What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?

500

Jesus was most likely born during this month

What is September?

500

The murder of this Iranian general sparked World War 3 memes in January of this year

Who was General Qasem Soleimani?

500

This park has no campsites, visitors centers, or roads, and the least amount of visitors per year

What is Gates of the Arctic Nat'l Park

500

Alex Trebek says he watches himself on jeopardy every night, unless this basketball team is playing

What are the Los Angeles Lakers?

500

In 1747, Jacques Daviel became the first to treat cataracts by safely removing this clouded eye part

What is the lens?

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