Colleges + Universities
In Blue
What's on the Menu?
A Big Country
Literary Dreams
100

In 2026 this SoCal school's women's basketball team toppled South Carolina to win its first NCAA title

What is UCLA?

100

In 1842 John Herschel came up with the cyanotype, which would eventually lead to this staple of the architecture world

What is the blueprint?

100

Dave's Triple

What is Wendy's?

100

Though it has only one official one, China spans 5 of these east to west

What are time zones?

100

E.B. White was inspired to write this story after a dream about "a small character who had the features of a mouse"

Who is Stuart Little?

200

Edwin Stanton & Rutherford B. Hayes were graduates of Kenyon College, the oldest private college in this state

What is Ohio?

200

Deep Blue, built by this co. known for creating computers to defeat humans in brainy games, beat Garry Kasparov in 19 chess moves in 1997

What is IBM?

200

The Chicken Little Combo & Comeback sauce

What is KFC?

200

Though it lost about 350,000 square miles of territory in 1947, it was still the world's 7th-largest country

What is India?

200

This author was inspired to set a book someplace rainy after a dream about a vampire & a human girl

Who is Stephanie Meyer?

300

All aboard the Boilermaker Special, the official mascot of this university

What is Purdue?

300

This troupe with shows in Orlando & Vegas promises you'll "never experience the same show twice"

What is Blue Man Group?

300

The Caniac Combo

What is Raising Cane's?

300

Argentina spans more than 2,000 miles from Jujuy province in the north to this island province down south

What is Tierra del Fuego?

300

While half-asleep on a Concorde flight, Stephen King got the idea for this work when he imagined Charles Dickens held captive

What is Misery?

400

This university is located in Corvallis, nestled in the heart of the Willamette Valley; go Beavers!

What is Oregon State?

400

This beast of U.S. folklore was a big 'un, yessir! You could put 42 axe handles plus a plug o' tobacco 'tween his eyes, you could

Who is Babe?

400

The 1921 slider & the chicken ring slider

What is White Castle?

400

It's the apt name of the nearly one million square mile area seen here

What is Western Australia?

400

A dream, possibly opium-induced, gave Samuel Taylor Coleridge this poem with a dome & a dame with a dulcimer

What is "Kubla Khan"?

500

Marlee Matlin is a lifetime honorary trustee of this DC school, & was one of its commencement speakers in 2022

What is Gallaudet University?

500

The animated TV pup Bluey is a Blue Heeler, also called this breed, ACD for short

What is an Australian cattle dog?

500

The original pink sugar cookie

What is Crumbl?

500

"O", I hope you know Russia has 46 of these provinces, from an old Slavonic word meaning "empire"

What are oblasts?

500

William Styron said a dream of a woman he knew in the 1940s who had a tattoo from Auschwitz inspired this work

What is Sophie's Choice?