California Dreaming
This city has the second-largest population in California.
Where is San Diego?
This statue, a gift from France, stands on Liberty Island in New York Harbor.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
This golfer won the 2025 masters, completing his career grand slam
Who is Rory McIlroy?
This is the name of the drone sent along with the Perseverance on the 2021 Mars Mission.
What is the ingenuity?
This is the name of a 8-carbon chain with no double bonds.
What is octane?
This California city is home to the technology hub known as Silicon Valley.
What is San Jose?
These streak-like lakes neighbor Cornell University.
What are the Finger Lakes?
In this sport, played on a diamond, success is defined by being able to fail 70% of the time and still be considered excellent.
What is softball?
This friendly robot from the Star Wars films is fluent in over six million forms of communication.
Who is C-3PO?
This event in 1347 marked the beginning of a pandemic that killed roughly one-third of Europe’s population.
What is the Black Death (or the Bubonic Plague)?
This California region is world-renowned for its wine production, particularly Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay.
What is Napa Valley?
This university, founded in 1865, boasts two Taiwanese presidents as alumni.
What is Cornell?
This basketball star made a surprising baseball debut in 1994.
Who is Michael Jordan?
This lovable trash-collecting robot is the star of a 2008 Pixar film.
Who is WALL-E?
In literature, this Shakespeare play features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
What is Hamlet?
This tectonic boundary running through California is responsible for many of the state’s earthquakes.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
This upstate New York town hosted a legendary 1969 music festival, though the concert actually took place on a nearby farm in Bethel.
What is Woodstock?
This bird name is used when a golfer hits only two shots on a par five.
What is an albatross?
This robotic spacecraft was launched in 1997 and provided detailed images of Jupiter and its moons during a flyby in 2000.
What is Galileo?
This US president was famous for spending only 32 days in office before dying of pneumonia.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
This Spanish mission, founded in 1769 by Father Junípero Serra, is the first in California’s historic mission system.
What is Mission San Diego de Alcalá?
These five boroughs make up New York City.
What are Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island?
This speed is the fastest softball pitch ever thrown in college softball.
79.4 mph
This sentient robot from 2001: A Space Odyssey is famous for its calm voice and chilling line, "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Who is HAL 9000?
These La Jolla Country Day teachers "coached" the Academic League team.
Who are Gary Peritz and Mr. Schall?