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100

An astonishing 172.8 inches of snow ended up falling in February 1969 on this New Hampshire mountain.

What is Mount Washington?

100

This agency is the regional accreditation agency for colleges and universities in the six New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

What is The New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE)?

100

This car was first made available by the Ford Motor Company in 1908, and was the first affordable mass-produced vehicle.

What is the Model T?

100

According to a survey by Dance magazine, this Christmas-themed Tchaikovsky ballet accounts for nearly half the annual revenue of many dance companies.

What is the Nutcracker?
100

This fearsome gangster, otherwise known as "Scarface", was the crime boss who was head of the Chicago Outfit.

Who is Al Capone?

200

Chionophobia, a word derived from Greek, is a psychological condition meaning this.

What is fear of snow?

200

This is the year New Hampshire College launched its Internet-based distance learning program (now known as “SNHU Online”).

What is 1995?

200

The 1953 film "Roman Holiday" is famous for its scenes of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck riding around Rome on a scooter made by this Italian brand whose name means "wasp".

What is Vespa?

200

"The Cricket on the Hearth" is a holiday novel by this famous British author. Better known for a different Christmas novel he wrote.

Who is Charles Dickens?

200

This is the name of the scale used to measure spiciness of peppers.

What is the Scoville Scale?

300

One of the determining factors in the shape of individual snowflakes is this. The study of flakes has identified that long, thin needle-like ice crystals form when it is higher, while when it is lower will lead to very flat plate-like crystals.

What is temperature?

300

This is the year New Hampshire College resettled in its current location, a 300-acre campus on Manchester’s Merrimack River. 

What is 1971?

300

The first speeding ticket was given in 1896 to Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, for going this speed, earning himself a fine of 1 shilling!

What is 8 MPH?

300

The New York Times announced “The Times Building will be especially illuminated tonight in honor of the birth of" this new year, when the ball first dropped in celebration.

What is 1908?

300

Forget the Euro! This is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

What is the Swiss Franc?

400

On January 7th, 1971, an official National Weather Service observation station at Hawley Lake in eastern Arizona recorded an all-time record low temperature for the state, reaching this.

What is -40 degrees F?

400

This was the year SNHU was founded.

What is 1932?

400

In May 1950 Alfa Romeo's Giuseppe Farina celebrated victory in the first ever world championship race, the British Grand Prix, for this racing sport.

What is Formula One?

400

Eating Kentucky Fried Chicken on Christmas Day has been a popular tradition since the 1970s in this nation.

What is Japan?

400

King Tut was this age when he became the ruler of Egypt.

What is 9?

500

This language has 421 terms related to snow.

What is Scots?

500

Originally named this, the tiny enterprise enrolled fewer than 10 day students and 35 evening students in bookkeeping, accounting, and secretarial courses.

What is the New Hampshire Accounting and Secretarial School?

500

The so-called ‘Double Sunrise’ service flight, which ran from Australia to Sri Lanka from 1943-45, often lasted over this many hours, with passengers seeing the sunrise twice.

What is 30 hours?

500

The Mullagh Medal goes to the Player of the Match for Australia's traditional Boxing Day face-off at MCG in this sport. 

What is Cricket?

500

This famous artist was considered a suspect in the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911. 

Who is Pablo Picasso?

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