Minnesota Geography
Word Origins
Dolly Parton's Top Hits
Presidential Predicaments
Laughing Matters
100

At 2,301 feet, this is Minnesota's highest point.

What is Eagle Mountain?

100

The word niche is derived from a 17th-century Old French verb meaning this in Modern English.

What is "to nest?"

100

Dolly Parton talks about the struggles of a long work week in this 1980 classic composed for a movie hit.

What is 9 to 5?

100

President Andrew Jackson was shot by this attorney and slave trader in 1806 over a horse race dispute, who was later killed by Jackson when he survived the assailant's bullet to his chest.

Who was Charles Dickinson?

100

In a 1987 comic, Gary Larson describes Jane Goodall using this derogatory term in dialogue between two chimpanzees.

What is a tramp?

200

The steep hills of southwestern Minnesota constitute this Pleistocene-age glacial plateau.

What is the Coteau des Prairies?

200

The phrase incorporated into the state seal of Virginia originates in whole from this Romance language, now becoming revitalized in parts of Europe in an effort to stave off its extinction.

What is Latin?

200

This country tune, written in 1973, went on to rank as #9 on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Country Songs of All Time" in 2014.

What is Jolene?

200

This U.S. President owned a raccoon named Rebecca that could be walked around the White House using a leash.

Who was Calvin Coolidge?

200

According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), this type of disorder can result in prolonged sadness and lack of personal enjoyment, which includes but is not limited to laughter and productivity in one's field of choice.

What is a major depressive disorder (MDD)?

300

Informally, this is Minnesota's only "mountain range."

What are the Sawtooth Mountains?

300

This word, used in the name of a condition characterized by a sensitivity to gluten, originated from the Ancient Greek koiliakos, meaning "belly" in Modern English.

What is celiac?

300

This song takes its name from a novel published posthumously under author Ernest Hemingway in 1970 with the intent to better his reputation following Across the River and Into the Trees (1950), an unprofitable failure.

What is Islands in the Stream (1983)?

300

In 1938, this former U.S. President took a tour of Europe, stopping in Germany to meet Adolf Hitler, the only President to do so before Hitler's suicide in 1945.

Who was Herbert Hoover?

300

A so-called "laughter epidemic" occurred among Tanzanian residents in 1962, stemming from an instance of MPI, or mass psychogenic illness, along this major African landform.

What is Lake Victoria?

400

This tributary of the Minnesota River, located in South Dakota, is argued by some experts to be the true source of the Mississippi River, not Lake Itasca.

What is the Little Minnesota River?

400

The epithet -cene is used in a historical context as a descriptor for Earth's geological periods, called this in that study's terminology.

What are epochs?

400

Inspired by Dolly's Coat of Many Colors (1971), an author with this publishing firm produced a children's picture book in 1996, using the song as its basis.

What is HarperCollins Publishers LLC?

400

During his 1984 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan produced political buttons targeting Democratic candidate Walter Mondale, making the satirical claim that he enjoyed eating this food.

What is quiche?

400

Jim Davis, who created the comic strip Garfield, which earned a Guinness World Record in 2002 for its widespread acceptance in over 2,500 literary works as a staple, was born in this Indiana city in 1945.

What is Marion, Indiana?

500

Born into New York lineage in 1839, this acclaimed geologist published 6 volumes of his monumental work The Geology of Minnesota, traveled with Custer on his 1874 Black Hills Expedition, and later became the first director of the Minnesota Geological Survey.

Who was Newton Horace Winchell?

500

Originating in Native American tongue, this state's name comes from the Mohegan word for "river driven by the tides."

What is Connecticut?

500

This 1982 soundtrack, alongside its parent film production starring Burt Reynolds, was turned into a play by The Black Hills Playhouse in South Dakota for a debut 2024 viewing.

What is The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas?

500

Then-businessman President Donald Trump produced ads in major newspapers calling for the execution of this famous African American group accused of the sexual assault of a white woman in New York City's Central Park in 1989.

Who were the Central Park Five?

500

This medical condition is used to describe the manifestation of uncontrollable laughter or heightened emotional behavior in humans, often the result of brain injury or the effects of a second neurological disorder.

What is Pseudobulbar affect (PBA)?