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Potpourri
100
This deep gorge in Arizona was carved out by the Colorado River over several thousand years.
What is the Grand Canyon?
100
This suffragist and abolitionist decried anti-Black racism at the 1851 Women's Rights Convention in a speech known as "Ain't I Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
100
The tradition of spilling a cooler of this electrolyte beverage on your coach began at a football game between NY and Washington in 1984.
What is Gatorade?
100
Throughout the day of April 15, 1912, newspapers around the country reported that this ship struck an iceberg, but that the passengers had all been rescued and were on their way to either New York or Halifax.
What is the Titanic?
100
This card game, invented by British poet Sir John Suckling, is scored on a peg board.
What is cribbage?
100
This author and illustrator created Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny and Jemima Puddle-Duck.
Who is Beatrix Potter?
100
Before becoming a famous crooner and TV star, this singer of Catch a Falling Star was a barber
Who is Perry Como?
200
These geologic phenomena are caused by water eroding underground rock, primarily limestone, creating hidden cavities that eventually collapse when the surface layer can't support itself.
What is a sinkhole?
200
This female country music star was the first woman to have a number one country hit, "It Wasn't God Who Made Honky-Tonk Angels," in 1952.
Who is Kitty Wells?
200
The Lambeau leap began in 1993, when LeRoy Butler, a safety for this team, scored a touchdown and jumped into the stands and into the arms of their devoted Cheesehead fanbase.
Who are the Green Bay Packers?
200
In 1686, The Royal Society of London poured all of its money into a book called The History of Fish, which they wrongly thought would be a huge success, and had no money left to publish the treatise on this man's laws of motion and gravity
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
When playing Gin Rummy, each player is dealt 10 cards that must be sorted into melds. At the end of the game, the unmatched cards are called this, the same name as the town where Wild Bill Hickok died in 1876.
What is Deadwood?
200
This author of The Hobbit reportedly believed "cellar door" was the most beautiful phrase in the English language.
Who is JRR Tolkein?
200
Moonshine smuggling during Prohibition and its aftermath directly birthed this sports organization, as bootleggers modified cars for speed and skill to evade law enforcement on backroads.
What is NASCAR? (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing )
300
This Polish scientist went against convention at the time and proposed the heliocentric model, saying that the planets all revolved around the sun rather than the earth.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
300
This tennis star, whose last name is the same as the Japanese city where she was born, won her first Grand Slam title at the 2018 US Open
Who is Naomi Osaka?
300
The marching band of this university, home of the Buckeyes, spells out their name in cursive on the field at half-time. Since 1936, a graduating sousaphone player is tasked with being the dot on the I.
What is Ohio State?
300
Ronald Wayne was the little-known third founder of this computer company. He sold his 10% stake back to his co-founders for only $800.
Today, a 10% stake in that company would be worth more than $90 billion.
What is Apple?
300
This card game takes its name from the Spanish word for Basket
What is Canasta?
300
She was the oldest of the Bronte sisters.
Who is Charlotte?
300
BENELUX is the collective abbreviation for these three countries.
What are Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemborg?
400
This M word, as a verb means to follow a curvy, winding path. As a noun, its the curve or loop of a river as erosion changes its path.
What is MEANDER?
400
Jackie Cochran was the first woman to do this on May 18, 1953. The first man to do it was Chuck Yeager, who achieved this feat on October 14, 1947.
What is break the sound barrier?
400
Growing this tradition started with the 1980 New York Islanders, on their way to their 4th consecutive Stanley Cup win, though it didn't officially have a name until the 1984-1985 Detroit Red Wings just couldn't be bothered to whittle down their face scruff.
What is the Playoff Beard?
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400
In 1989, this Panamanian dictator took refuge in the Vatican Embassy. for ten straight days, the US military surrounded the building with massive speakers and blasted a playlist of loud rock and heavy metal music, including tracks like Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle," forcing him to surrender.
Who is Manuel Noriega?
400
Find the Lady is the British name for this classic street hustle and magic trick "game" where a dealer uses sleight-of-hand to make a spectator lose a bet while trying to follow a "money card" among three face-down cards.
What is Three-Card-Monte?
400
His initials stand for David Herbert. He is best known for his novels, Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterley's Lover. The latter was subject to an obscenity trial in 1960.
Who is DH Lawrence?
400
Celibate Egyptian Priests were forbidden to eat this member of the allium family, as it was considered an aphrodisiac
What are onions?
500
This E word is used by geologists to describe rock weathering in which shells or plates are broken away from a rock leaving it rounded in appearance. In the shower, its what your loofa does.
What is Exfoliation?
500
Her play, "A Raisin in the Sun," was the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway. It opened in March 1959.
Who is Lorraine Hansberry?
500
This ceremonial first pitch of baseball season became a tradition in 1910 when this president threw out the first pitch at a game between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.
Who is Taft?
500
In 1788, the army of this European country got into a drunken argument over schnapps with their own infantry. A single shot was fired, and in the ensuing confusion, different units of the multi-ethnic troops shouted at each other in different languages and mistook each other for the enemy Ottoman Turks.
What is Austria?
500
You are dealt this many cards in a game of Whist
What is 13?
500
It matters not how straight the gate
How charged with punishment the scroll
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.
So ends this poem by William Ernest Henley, written in 1875.
What is Invictus?
500
RC Cola was the innovator of using these for packaging.
What are tin and aluminum cans?