Cops and Criminals
Ecology
Chess
The World Cup
Who Painted That?
100
These criminal organizations, notorious for their strict codes of conduct, take their name from a losing hand in the traditional card game Oicho Kabu.
100
THE THOUSAND DOLLAR QUESTION!!! The famously over-harvested dodo, endemic to the island of Mauritius, was first recorded by Dutch sailors in 1598. To the nearest year without going over, in what year did it effectively become extinct?
1662
100
What is the only move in chess in which a player can move two of his pieces in the same move?
castling
100
What player scored by punching the ball into the net in what came to be known as the “Hand of God” goal against England in the quarter-finals of the 1986 World Cup?
Diego Maradona
100
Name the painter or the painting
The Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh
200
What city has the third largest police department in the United States?
Los Angeles
200
In the 1930s and 1940s, workers in the U.S. were paid to plant over three million acres of this Asian vine as a way for farmers to stop soil erosion. By 1970 the U.S. Department of Agriculture had listed it as a weed, and by 1997 it was placed on the Federal Noxious Weeds List.
kudzu
200
What is the only chess piece that can perform an 'an passant'?
the pawn
200
The United States failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup after their humiliating 2-1 defeat to this country in October.
Trinidad and Tobago
200
Name the painter or the painting
Self Portrait with a Monkey, Frida Kahlo
300
This drug has street names such as Tina, Crissy, tweet, glass, ice, and go.
Crystal Meth/Methamphetamine
300
The last Atlas bear, Africa’s only native bear to have survived into modern times, was shot by hunters in 1870 near the city of Tetouan in this country.
Morocco
300
IBM's Deep Blue super-computer defeated what world chess champion in a six game match played over the course of May 3-11, 1997?
Gary Kasparov
300
He is the only player in the world to have won three World Cup titles - 1958, 1962, 1970.
Pele
300
Name the painter or the painting
The Birth of Venus, Botticelli
400
How many rounds does the Glock 19 hold in its magazine?
15
400
By 1987 the black-footed ferret was considered extinct in the wild. The ferret has since recovered to endangered status due to captive breeding programs and the designation of protected areas for it and this animal, which composes up to 90% of the ferret’s food.
the prairie dog
400
Name the piece that must move for White, and where to, for White to checkmate Black in one move.
Queen to b3
400
This French player received the Golden Ball for player of the tournament at the 2006 World Cup, despite his infamous sending off in the final against Italy for head-butting Marco Materazzi in the chest.
Zinedine Zidane
400
Name the painter or the painting
Girl with the Pearl Earring, Johannes Veemer
500
This criminology theory, introduced in a 1982 article by social scientists James Wilson and George Kelling, states that maintaining and monitoring urban environments to prevent small crimes such as vandalism helps to create an atmosphere of lawfulness, thereby preventing more serious crimes from happening.
Broken Windows Theory
500
Name this body of water, once the 4th largest lake in the world.
Aral Sea
500
This chess opening, still among the most popular, is named for a 16th century Spanish bishop who studied this and other openings in his 'Libro del Ajedrez,' written in 1561.
Ruy Lopez
500
Ferenc Puskás, 'the Galloping Major,' considered one of the ten best players of all time, took his team to the World Cup final in 1954 where he played the entire game against West Germany and scored a goal despite a fractured ankle. He was banded from soccer for two years by the Union of European Football Associations for refusing to return to his country after this 1956 political event.
The Hungarian Uprising
500
Name the painter or the painting
The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Hokusai
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