Measure for Measure
The Dog Days
All Spaced Out
World of War (Craft?)
Music to My Ear
100
In the United States and Canada, one ton is equal to this many pounds.
x) 1000
y) 2000
z) 5000
What is 2000?
100
Bred to rout badgers out of badger-holes.
x) Beagle
y) Japanese Chin
z) Dachshund
What is Dachshund?
100
Betelgeuse & Rigel are the two giant stars in this constellation.
x) Andromeda
y) Orion
z) Cassiopeia
What is Orion?
100
Philo of Byzantium recorded the earliest-known materials for crafting this tool, during a siege ca. 250 BCE.
x) Invisible ink
y) Explosive powder
z) Horseshoes
What is invisible ink?
100
Best-selling female musician in the history of recording, to date.
x) Madonna
y) Beyoncé
z) Celine Dion
Who is Madonna?
200
10 kilograms, in pounds.
x) 22
y) 9
z) 31
What is 22? (or 22.05)
200
Bred to hunt leopards.
x) Dalmatian
y) Borzoi
z) Afghan Hound
What is Afghan Hound?
200
In our solar system, this planet has the shortest day (i.e. rotates the fastest).
x) Mercury
y) Jupiter
z) Neptune
What is Jupiter?
200
During WWII, this country found a way to make explosives out of fish oil. Because they could, I guess.
x) Norway
y) Canada
z) Japan
What is Norway?
200
Broadway musical with the record for number of Tony nominations.
x) Phantom of the Opera
y) Les Misérables
z) Hamilton
What is Hamilton?
300
A fortnight - as heard in Shakespeare, Game of Thrones, or Ye Olde Renaissance Faire - refers to how much time?
x) Ten Days
y) Two Weeks
z) One Month
What is Two Weeks?
("Fort'night" = "Fourteen Nights")
300
Given their size, you'd hardly guess they were bred to herd sheep.
x) Yorkshire Terrier
y) Lhasa Apso
z) Corgi
What is Corgi?
300
The man-made spacecraft now farthest from Earth.
x) Voyager I
y) Sputnik IV
z) Viking II
What is Voyager I?
300
Credited as the first civilization to record the use of a trebuchet catapult.
x) Chinese
y) Aztecs
z) Egyptians
What is Chinese?
300
The most covered & re-covered song, since the advent of musical recording.
x) Yesterday (orig. The Beatles)
y) Hunk of Burnin' Love (orig. Elvis Presley)
z) Cry Me a River (orig. Julie London)
What is "Yesterday?"
400
Standard keg of beer = 15.5 gallons, or this many pints:
x) 50 pints
y) 124 pints
z) 175 pints
What is 124 pints? (They comes in pints?)
400
Bred in the 17th century by an order of monks, to track & rescue pilgrims and travelers lost in the Swiss Alps.
x) Great Pyrenees
y) St. Bernard
z) Bernese Mountain Dog
What is the St. Bernard?
(bred by monks from the Hospice of Saint Bernard, explicitly for mountain rescue. The Bernese Mountain Dog was a herder used to guard highland sheep)
400
Titan, Enceladus, Mimas & Iapetus are just some of the moons orbiting this planet.
x) Saturn
y) Uranus
z) Neptune
What is Saturn?
400
To avoid battling the Romans at sea, this commander took an army of footsoldiers, cavalry, and war elephants over the Alps to invade Rome in 218 BCE.
x) Alexander the Great
y) Hannibal
z) Xerxes of Persia
Who is Hannibal?
400
Best-selling movie soundtrack album, to date.
x) High School Musical
y) The Bodyguard
z) Grease
What is The Bodyguard?
500
"Four score & seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation," implies how many years prior to the Gettysburg Address?
x) 47 years
y) 87 years
z) 21 years (14+7)
What is 87?
(a score = 20, so four-score = 80)
500
As the name suggests, this breed originated in Germany:
x) Great Dane
y) English Mastiff
z) French Poodle
What is Great Dane?
(bred in Germany, for the Danish nobility)
500
Ceres is an unofficial "dwarf planet," sandwiched between the orbits of these two "true planets."
x) Mercury & Venus
y) Saturn & Uranus
z) Mars & Jupiter
What are Mars & Jupiter?
500
19th Century Prussian conquerors forbade their Danish subjects from displaying the flag of Denmark. So, in protest, the Danes bred an animal with a colored coat to look like the flag instead.
x) Dog
y) Horse
z) Pig
What is Pig? (Husum Red Pied - aka, the Danish Protest Pig)
500
World's longest-running annual TV singing competition.
x) American Idol
y) Eurovision
z) Asia New Singer
What is Eurovision? (broadcast annually, 1955-present)