Science & Nature
What’s the only big cat that doesn’t roar?
Cheetah
Which work is a collection of stories told by pilgrims traveling to Canterbury?
The Canterbury Tales
How long did the Great Depression last?
12 years, from 1929 to 1941
What is the deepest lake in the United States, located in southern Oregon?
Crater Lake at 1,943 feet deep
Which book about a band of rabbits became a bestseller in 1972?
Watership Down
Which fruit is associated with Isaac Newton and gravity?
Apple
This ancient Roman poet wrote Metamorphoses, a collection of mythological transoformations.
Ovid
Who is the only US president to have been a former prisoner of war?
Andrew Jackson
Oregon officially gained statehood as the 33rd state on which famous holiday in 1859?
Valentines Day
What was the first animal to ever be cloned?
A sheep
What is the rarest blood type?
AB-
Which ancient poem begins, "Sing, Muse, of the anger of Achilles..."?
The Illiad
Which Hun leader received 2,100 pounds of gold from the Romans each year as part of a treaty?
Attila the Hun
When was the last eruption of Mount St. Helens?
1980
Who was Johnny Carson’s longtime sidekick on “The Tonight Show”?
Ed McMahon
Which type of cloud is associated with thunderstorms?
Cumulonimbus
The final section of Dante's Divine Comedy depicts heavenly bliss.
Paradiso
What year did the Titanic sink?
1912
What is the name of the 30-foot hemlock log that has been floating completely upright in Crater Lake since at least 1896?
In human anatomy, what does the “hallux” refer to?
The big toe
Which type of tree doesn’t lose its leaves in winter?
Evergreen
What is the Buddhist collection of teachings that includes the Dhammapada?
Tipitaka or Pali Canon
Who is often called "the father of the atomic bomb"?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Which river-carved gorge on the Oregon-Idaho border is the deepest in North America, plunging deeper than the Grand Canyon?
Hell's Canyon, 7,913 ft deep
How many states does the Appalachian Trail cross?
14 states--Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine
What’s the name of the process in which plants lose water through tiny pores in their leaves?
Transpiration
Which Roman philosopher wrote Meditations, which are still read as classics of Stoic thought?
Marcus Aurelius
What was the name of the first successful English colony in North America, established in 1607?
Jamestown
What 1965 sci-fi masterpiece novel was inspired by the author's visit to the coastal sand dunes near Florence, Oregon?
Dune by Frank Herbert
Jim Henson is the creator of what beloved cast of characters?
What are the names of the two moons of Mars?
Phobos & Deimos
She was an American poet who was so reclusive that she only published 10 out of her 1800 poems while alive, yet became a legend after her death.
Emily Dickinson
How many rules are contained in the Code of Hammurabi?
282
What animal is featured on the reverse side of Oregon’s unique, two-sided state flag?
A golden beaver
What New Jersey town is home to a statue of Frank Sinatra?
Hoboken
What is the tallest type of grass?
Bamboo
Which victorian novelist worked in a blacking factory as a child, an experience that shaped his book, Oliver Twist?
Charles Dickens
How many months were in the Roman calendar?
What breakfast side-dish staple was invented in 1953 by the founders of Ore-Ida in Ontario, Oregon?
The Tater Tot
Who invented the cotton gin?
Which planet is also known as the “Evening Star”?
Venus
Amid the Cold War, this dystopian novel imagined a society where truth is whatever the state says it is.
1984 by George Orwell
Who founded the Sons of Liberty?
Samuel Adams & John Hancock
How many federally recognized Native American tribes make their home in Oregon today?
Nine tribes
What is the largest volcano on earth?
Mauna Loa on Big Island, Hawaii
Which planet has the largest ocean?
Jupiter
What feminist author wrote A Room of One's Own, arguing that women needed money and privacy to write?
Virginia Woolf
How many US states were once part of Mexico?
10-- California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and parts of Arizona, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Wyoming
What is the name of Portland's 2-foot-wide patch of green, officially recognized as the world's smallest park?
Mill Ends Park
What U.S. state grows coffee beans?
Hawaii