Geography
Term meaning “of or relating to the sea or ocean”; also relating to navigation by watercraft
What is marine?
This 1976 sports drama launched a popular franchise featuring a boxer played by Sylvester Stallone.
What is Rocky?
Main computer input device for text.
What is the keyboard?
This major sporting event takes place every four years.
What are the Olympic Games?
Fun Fact: The last time the Olympic gold medal was made of solid gold was 1912.
If you receive this red flower, it signifies the sender’s love.
What is a rose?
One of two states that is rectangular in shape.
- Colorado
- California
- Maine
- Vermont
- Wyoming
- New Mexico
- Nevada
- Rhode Island
What is Colorado or Wyoming?
An image of a place, city, state, or the world, drawn to scale.
What is map/a map?
This 1977 romantic film stars Woody Allen and Diane Keaton.
What is Annie Hall?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
When you hear the crackling sound coming from this, get ready to sing some songs or tell a story.
What is a campfire?
This octagonal red sign is the universal sign for this.
What is “stop”?
The state of Washington is home to the largest building in the world, which belongs to this aviation company.
A.) GE Aviation
B.) Boeing
C.) Lockheed Martin
What is Boeing?
B.
Spooky term that describes a deserted village or town with remains of infrastructure and buildings.
What is ghost town?
Louise Fletcher plays this character in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the nemesis of Jack Nicholson’s character.
Who is Nurse Ratched?
Dutch artist who painted the famous painting The Starry Night.
Who is Vincent van Gogh?
On this continent, many shops close for the month of August.
A.) Australia
B.) Africa
C.) Europe
What is Europe?
C.
This is the only red precious gemstone.
What is the ruby?
This state has the largest economy in the United States.
A.) Texas
B.) New York
C.) California
D.) Florida
What is California?
C.
A barrier that restricts the flow of water in a river or creek, whether built by people or created by animals.
What is dam?
Cary Grant (as Peter Joshua) and Audrey Hepburn (as Regina Lampert) headline this classic 1963 rom-com set in France, in which, unbeknownst to Regina, her husband has been thrown off a train to his death.
a.) How to Steal a Million
b.) The Grass is Greener
c.) Charade
What is Charade?
C.
The process that plants use to convert sunlight to energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This popular fruit associated with South Carolina and Georgia is harvested in August.
What is peach?
A red necktie is often called this, as it symbolizes authority and confidence in the wearer.
What is a power tie?
This state has the most incorporated companies.
A.) Wyoming
B.) Nevada
C.) Delaware
What is Delaware?
C.
A chain or collection of islands, such as the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador.
a.) archipelago
b.) beach
c.) subcontinent
What is archipelago?
A.
In Good Morning, Vietnam, he plays the lead, a morning radio DJ on a military base.
Who is Robin Williams? He plays irreverent DJ Adrian Cronauer, who has never encountered a rule he could follow.
The name of the treaty that ended World War I.
A.) Treaty of Versailles?
B.) Treaty of Paris
C.) Treaty of Trianon
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A.
This country celebrates Independence Day on August 15.
A.) Pakistan
B.) India
C.) Bangladesh
What is India?
B.
This red vegetable with an edible pink stalk is sometimes mistakenly thought to be a fruit.
What is rhubarb?
Alaska is more than twice as large as this giant southern U.S. state.
What is Texas?
A navigable route by waterway.
What is sea lane/shipping route or shipping lane?
This Watergate movie was released in 1976 and stars Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford.
A.) The Final Days
B.) All the President’s Men
C.) The Post
What is All the President’s Men?
B.
The chemical symbol for gold on the periodic table.
500 extra points for the number.
What is Au?
Its atomic number is 79.
This famous annual meteor shower peaks in August.
A.) Perseid meteor shower
B.) Leonid meteor shower
C.) Geminid meteor shower
What is the Perseid meteor shower?
A.
This red “fish” is often mistaken for a crustacean, but it is an echinoderm.
What is a starfish?
This state’s official state song is “Yankee Doodle.”
A.) Connecticut
B.) Massachusetts
C.) New Hampshire
What is Connecticut?