Potent Potables
Our National Parks
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100

Hennesy, a common cognac, has to be produced in Cognac, France. Despite it being a French liquor, the founder of Hennesy is from the same country that gave us hurling and soda bread

Ireland

100

The oldest national park, centered over the largest super volcano in North America, was founded in 1872 

Yellowstone
100

A former President of India and hailing from Rameswaram, he worked extensively as an administrator of ISRO and came to be known as the Missile Man of India

A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

100

The Brits use this word to refer to an apartment

Loft

100

The first organized football game happened 1869 between Princeton and this Big Ten school located in Piscataway, NJ

Rutgers

200

This wine made from honey was created almost 3,500 years before the wheel was invented

Mead

200

Threee of the ten highest waterfalls in the world, one of them being Bridalveil Fall, are located in this national park

Yosemite

200

In 1620, this country, which gave us Mads Mikkelsen and Hans Christian Andersen, established a settlement in Tharangambadi on the coast of Tamil Nadu

Denmark

200

The Goo Goo Dolls are famous for giving us this song, which is named after a part of your eye

Iris

200

Alumni from this prestigious college of music in Boston have won 310 Grammy awards, by far the most of any university in the world

Berklee College of Music
300

According to their reps, the U.S. military is the largest buyer of this single barrel whiskey in the world

Jack Daniels

300

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is the largest national park, covering 13,000 square miles or 13.2 million acres in this state purchased by William Seward in 1867

Alaska

300

This book store that was founded in Chennai in 1844, is the oldest bookstore in India

Higginbothams

300

This is a clamp fastened across the strings of a fretted musical instrument to raise its tuning

Capo
300

This school, which gave us Herb Brooks and Kevin McHale, has its own Lettuce Club, where members try to eat an entire head of lettuce as fast as they can

University of Minnesota

400

This country's favorite liquor is Baiju, which usually distilled from fermented sorghum 

China
400

This state's five national parks are all within easy driving distance of each other, which means that you can cross all of them off your “bucket list” on just one trip

Utah

400

This popular tourist destination, also referred to as “The Queen of Hills,” is where snooker was invented in 1875

Ooty

400

The Serum Institute of India is located in this city

Pune

400

Any student who completes archery, fencing, sailing and pistol (or rifle) classes is eligible to receive a pirate’s license at this famous Institute.

MIT

500

In the 1600s, thermometers were filled not with mercury, but rather this liquor made by distilling wine

Brandy

500

Only one state in the country is not lucky enough to currently have either a national park or national monument, it's also the state that gave us Joe Biden (hmm)

Delaware

500

The governor of Tamil Nadu in 1875 also shares the name with this Brit who eventually became the UK Prime Minister and was famous for his foreign policy of appeasement that led to the rise of Hitler in Germany

Sir Neville Chamberlain

500

This U.S. island territory's unofficial motto is "Where America's Day Begins"

Guam

500

The school, home of the first Heisman trophy, holds the largest scavenger hunt in the world every year

UChicago

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