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Maddie's Special Interests
100

Presently, the NHL includes seven teams in Canada. Name one.

The Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, and the Winnipeg Jets

100

What is the hottest planet?

Venus

100

What is the team sport played on ice where players slide granite stones towards a circular target area called the house, aiming to accumulate the highest score by strategically placing their stones?

Curling

100

At 120 bpm, this song from 1977 is commonly used to help remember the proper tempo for CPR.

Stayin Alive

100

What is a narrative principle emphasizing that every element in a story should be necessary, while irrelevant elements should be removed?

Chekhov's gun

200

Who is the landlady from the Sherlock Holmes books and short stories who shares a name with a river in New York?

Mrs. Hudson

200

What language is the Aenied written in?

Latin

200

This state has voted for the democratic canidate in every presidential election since 1976.

Minnesota

200

What is the name for the body of water between Long Island and Connecticut?

Long Island Sound

200

House of the Dragon is currently debuting its third season following the ancestors of Daenerys Targaryen. What Emmy Award winning show is House of the Dragon a spin off from? 

Game of Thrones

300

Which Montreal-headquartered circus group has shows including "O", "Mystere", "Kurious", "Alegría", and "Kà"?

Cirque du Solei

300

Who won the Battle of Actium?

Octavian/Augustus

300

This magical duo hots a tv show where different magicians attempt to fool them.

Penn and Teller

300

What are the gauge bosons which mediate the strong nuclear force between quarks to form hadrons?

Gluons

300

The Muppets have released 10 movies since their release in 1979. Name one.

Bonus: In which Muppet movie is Kermit the Frog thrown into a Russian Gulag?

The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets from Space, It's a Very Muppet Christmas Movie, The Muppets Wizard of Oz, The Muppets

Muppets Most Wanted

400

Name the three oldest metro systems in the world.

London Underground/Tube, Chicago L, and the Budapest Metro

400

Who played Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park?

Hint: He died last week

Sam Neill
400

Who was the first American world chess champion?

Bobby Fischer

400

The music manufacturer Gibson originally made instruments in Kalamazoo before moving to which musically acclamied city?

Nashville

400

What wooden instrument has "drone" strings that resemble the sound of a bagpipe?

Dulcimer

500

The concept of which modern Pinterest-y room decor lighting trend was orginated as a part of the costuming for the 1881 Gilbert and Sullivan show Lolanthe: or the Peer and the Peri, made posssible by the technological advancement of it being the first show to use all electric lighting?

Fairy lights

500

What is the first multicellular organism to have its entire genome sequenced?

Caenorhabditis elegans

500

This statistical distribution gives the probability of a certain number of independent events occurring in a fixed interval of time.

Poisson distribution

500

This hypnotist in One Piece was the secondary antagonist of the Syrup Village arc and later became a Lieutenant Commander for the Marines.

Jango

500

Xavier University, who Maddie's Dad played baskbetball for in 1991, is apart of which NCAA D1 basketball conference?

Hint: Saint John's (mens) and UConn (womens) won this conference last season.

Big East

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