Disaster!
The Richter scale measures the severity of this kind of natural disaster.
What is an earthquake?
This child goes missing in the first season of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things.
Who is Will Byers?
This is the regulation height for all basketball hoops in the NBA.
What is 10 feet?
Young Afrobeats musician Ayra Starr is signed to Roc Nation, the record label created by this world-famous rapper from Brooklyn, NY.
Who is Jay-Z?
This is the in-game currency for the popular gaming platform Roblox.
What are Robux?
Hot wet air from the Gulf of Mexico clashes with cold mountain and prairie air over flat land, which is why, compared to any other country in the world, America experiences the most of this kind of natural disaster.
What are tornadoes?
This is the number of seasons planned for the hit Netflix show Stranger Things.
What is five?
This king on the court holds a record for most points scored of all time in the NBA.
Who is LeBron James?
This hit Drake single, featuring Afrobeats star Wizkid, became Spotify's most-streamed song ever and set a Guinness world record in 2016.
What is "One Dance?"
This green-and-red 3D wireframe game, featuring a ball rolling down an endless incline, used to be one of the rare unblocked games in MCPS, spawning a sequel.
What is Slope?
In Washington state during the spring of 1980, Mount St. Helens became the greatest natural disaster of this kind in America, killing 57 people, destroying 200 homes, 47 bridges, and hundreds of miles of highways.
What is a volcano?
This fictional small town in Indiana features as the primary setting for the hit Netflix show Stranger Things.
What is Hawkins?
This NBA legend took a break from his record-smashing career in the 90's to try his hand at baseball.
Who is Michael Jordan?
Hailing from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this youthful lad incorporated the phrase "Never Broke Again" into his stage name.
This iconic videogame pioneered the use of cutscenes, powerups, and playable characters -- even though it was designed to look like a pizza with a slice missing.
What is Pac-Man?
In 1964, an underwater earthquake created this kind of disaster, the only of its kind to have taken lives in the continental United States.
What is a tsunami?
The young boys of Stranger Things bond their friendship -- and explain the unknown -- using this popular tabletop game.
What is "Dungeons & Dragons?"
The "National" in "National Basketball Association" refers to America -- but don't tell that to this Canadian city.
What is Toronto?
"You hate it when I call you a small child" is the opposite meaning of the hook to this smash hit by The Notorious B.I.G.
What is "Big Poppa?"
This installment to the Grand Theft Auto franchise was so controversial it was rated "Adults Only," pulled from stores, and even recalled by Rockstar Games, who revised the game and released it again for a "Mature" rating.
What is Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas?
These natural disasters are named alphabetically, alternating between boy names and girl names.
What are hurricanes?
"Jane Hopper" -- the adoptive daughter of Jim Hopper in Stranger Things -- is better known by this name.
Who is "Eleven?"
To set a new high for most points scored of all time in the NBA, LeBron James had to break this legend's previous record.
Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
Born in Brooklyn NY, Christopher Wallace was an honor roll student, but due to his music career, he became famous worldwide by this stage name instead.
Who is The Notorious B.I.G.?
"We got Hollow Knight: Silksong before we got..." this game, according to many impatient gamers frustrated with its delayed release.
What is Grand Theft Auto VI?
Everything's bigger in this state -- especially the number of tornadoes, for which this state has the most annually.
What is Texas?
The hit Netflix show Stranger Things was created by these two brothers, whose names appear at the beginning of every episode.
Who are the Duffer Brothers?
The phrase "5-3" has this special meaning to Muggsy Bogues, who holds a record like no other in all of NBA history.
What is the height of the shortest NBA player ever?
Before contributing to the legacy of gangsta rap, this musical legend attended the Baltimore School for the Arts in high school and studied theatre, poetry, ballet, and jazz.
Who is Tupac Shakur?
"Jumpman" was the original English name for the first appearance of this character, who is arguably the most famous videogame character of all time.
Who is Mario?
This disease is notorious for being the most deadly pandemic in human history -- killing around a quarter of the world's population.
What is the Black Death/Bubonic Plague?
This is the birth name of the ultimate antagonist of Stranger Things -- someone the rest of the characters refer to as "Vecna."
Who is Henry Creel?
It's a shame Mr. Hoobler called in sick during last year's Student-Staff Basketball Game -- he missed witnessing the dominating performance of this legendary TV artist.
Who is Bob Ross?
This hit single by the reggae artist Shaggy was featured in the 2006 animated film Barnyard, as performed by an enormous mouse named "Biggie Cheese."
What is "Boombastic?"
From 2015-2022, the official motto of the Roblox gaming platform was these two words.
What is "Powering Imagination?"