Outdoors
Sports/Exercising
Middle Earth
The Idea of the West
Family
100

This classic dry fly, named for a delicate insect, is often the first pattern new anglers learn to tie.

What is the Adams?

100

In barbell training, this term describes the portion of a lift where the muscle is lengthening under tension, often used to increase strength and hypertrophy.

What is the eccentric phase?

100

This hobbit inherits the One Ring from Bilbo.

Who is Frodo Baggins?

100

This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the United States and opened the West for settlement.

What is the Louisiana Purchase?

100

Megan's favorite color.

What is blue

200

This antlered animal, known for its loud autumn “bugle,” is one of the most popular big-game species hunted in North America.

What is the elk?

200

This type of training, often abbreviated as “PAP,” involves performing a heavy lift followed by an explosive movement to improve power output.

What is post-activation potentiation?

200

his sword, reforged from Narsil, is wielded by Aragorn.

What is Andúril?

200

This 1890 battle marked the last major armed resistance of the Plains Indians against U.S. forces.

What is the Battle of Wounded Knee?

200

Mom can't make a decision to save her life but she picked this as her favorite food.

What is anything Chocolate?

300

On many long-distance trails, this term refers to a short side path leading to water, a viewpoint, or a campsite off the main route.

What is a spur trail?

300

This NHL trophy, first awarded in 1924, is given annually to the league’s top point scorer during the regular season.

What is the Art Ross Trophy?

300

This giant spider in Mirkwood attacks Bilbo and the dwarves.

Who is Shelob?

300

Famous frontiersman Davy Crockett served in this early 19th-century conflict between settlers and Mexico.

What is the Texas Revolution?

300

This is the name of Maddy's current Beta Fish.

Who is Dean?

400

This feature, created by the region’s lack of glacial flattening, gives Driftless Area streams their characteristic spring-fed, cold-water trout habitat.

What are limestone or karst valleys?

400

The energy system that fuels very short, maximal efforts like sprinting or heavy lifting is called this.

What is the phosphagen (or ATP-PC) system?

400

This massive, winged serpent in The Silmarillion guards Angband and is a lieutenant of Morgoth.

Who is Glaurung?

400

This law, passed in 1862, granted settlers 160 acres of land if they improved it for five years.

What is the Homestead Act?

400

Tony's green car could give him away, or so could his license plate with these letters and numbers.

What is AYA-8397?

500

This subspecies of North American elk, once nearly extirpated from its native range, is smaller than its Rocky Mountain cousin and is the primary target in hunting zones spanning parts of the Midwest and Great Plains.

What is the Merriam’s elk?

500

The first athlete to run a marathon under 2 hours did so in 2019, though it was unofficial.

Who is Eliud Kipchoge?

500

The tragic elf prince of Doriath, who loved Lúthien but ultimately dies before completing his quest.

Who is Túrin Turambar?

500

This 19th-century Native leader of the Lakota Sioux led his people at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Who is Sitting Bull?

500

Dad likes to send deer pictures in the family group chat. This is the number of photos he sent of them this week.

What is ?