Pop Culture
Quoting “you have died of dysentery" didn’t come from “Grey’s Anatomy” or “House, M.D.”—it’s a throwback to which computer lab pioneering game from your ‘90s childhood?
What is The Oregon Trail?
Featured on many state license plates and the state quarter, which tourist destination is Oregon’s sole National Park?
What is Crater Lake National Park?
Located in the city of Eugene, the University of Oregon’s football team, the Ducks, proudly wear what two colors to represent their school?
What are green and yellow?
What is Oregon's state flower?
What is the Oregon Grape?
Which Oregon city is home to the well-known catalog gift company Harry and David?
What is Medford?
In this town you can find the Shakespeare Festival. For a bonus point, also name two of the theaters that host the festival in this town.
What is Ashland, Oregon?
Theaters: Angus Bowmer, Allen Elizabethan, Thomas Theatre.
True or false: There is Oregon lava rock on the moon.
True
Which West Coast university does Nike have a close relationship with (they designed the football team’s uniforms and donate a lot of money to the athletics programs)?
What is The University of Oregon?
What is Oregon's state animal?
What is a beaver?
True or false: In 1854, a coin toss decided that Portland, Ore. would be named Portland rather than Boston.
True.
This is one of two towns that inspired Gravity Falls in Oregon
What is Boring, Oregon?
Name the states that border Oregon.
What are Nevada, California, Washington, and Idaho?
True or False? Nearly half of Oregon’s total area is forested – close to 30 million acres.
True
The western half of Oregon is primarily covered in dense forests, and the tree that produced this cone is the most common in these forests. With a scientific name of Pseudotsuga menziesii, which tree is a staple of Oregon commerce, used primarily for building lumber?
What is the Douglas Fir?
This coffee chain, local to the western United States, is based in Grants Pass, Oregon--not, as the name might suggest, Amsterdam or The Hague.
What is Dutch Bros?
This movie was filmed at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood.
What is "The Shining"?
This is the highest elevation point at 11,239 feet.
What is Mount Hood?
The state’s official nut is ____ and Oregon grows 99 percent of the entire U.S. commercial crop.
What is the hazelnut?
What fish, which is born in freshwater streams, migrates to the ocean, then returns to its native streams to spawn, is a symbol of the Pacific Northwest
What is salmon?
This is Oregon's state gemstone. It is a variety of crystal feldspar, and its color (which ranges from water-clear to pale yellow, soft pink, blood red, blue, and green) is determined by the amount of copper in the stone.
What is a sunstone?
This delicious breakfast food was invented in Oregon by two brothers, Nephi and Golden Grigg, the founders of Ore-Ida.
What are tater tots?
This date is located on the Oregon state flag and indicates when Oregon was admitted to the Union as a state.
What is 1859?
Where was the only attack on a MAINLAND American military site during World War II?
Bonus point: Who carried out the attack?
What is the Oregon coast?
Who were Japanese militia with submarines?
These are three of the five species of Pacific Salmon that inhabit many of the Pacific Northwest National Forests.
What are Chinook, Coho, Chum, Pink, and/or Sockeye?
This famous donut shop in Portland, Oregon once served NyQuil- and Pepto Bismol-coated doughnuts before the FDA shut down the medicinal pastry operation.
What is Voodoo Donuts?