History
Geography
Word of the Day
Riddles
Kid's Lit
100
What is the Nuremberg Defense?
Claiming you are just following orders when doing something illegal
100
In what body of water is Easter Island located?
South Pacific
100
Circumlocution
100
What waits for nothing and once lost can never be found?
Time
100
Something strange happens to an elephant
Horton Hears a Who
200
What did Dwight Eisenhower's 1919 road trip inspire?
The US interstate system (1952)
200
What European country’s flag is this?
Sweden
200
Interrobang
(1962)
200
What has many needles but doesn't sew?
A Christmas tree
200
A Hidden Retreat
The Secret Garden
300
Why did Victorian doctors endorse beards?
Beards were thought to filter out bad air (miasma) that caused disease.
300
In what country will you find the longest place name in the world?
New Zealand. 85-letter Maori name for a certain town/mountain
300
Stentorian
A loud and powerful voice: Stenor, a Herald in Homer's Iliad whose voice was as loud as 50 men
300
What can you catch but not throw?
a cold!
300
A spider saves a life
Charlotte's Web
400
Who were Baby Ruth candy bars named for?
"Baby" Ruth Cleveland, the daughter of former president Grover Cleveland
The candy maker, located on the same street as Wrigley Field, named the bar "Baby Ruth" in 1921, as Babe Ruth's fame was on the rise, 24 years after Cleveland had left the White House, and 17 years after his daughter, Ruth, had died (aged 12, from diphtheria).(Wikipedia)
400
Where is the only volcano that can be explore from the inside?
Iceland
400
Quixotic
Exceedingly idealistic, impractical, unrealistic
400
What kind of band never plays music?
A rubber band (arguable!)
400
Records of a fantastical place
The Chronicles of Narnia
500
What scientist invented the word “cell”?
Robert Hooke (1665, Micrographia book)
"cellulae" = monks rooms in a monastery
500
What country has a town built inside the crater of a volcano?
Japan
500
Eponymous
500
What runs all around the backyard but never moves?
A fence
500
A trip around the world
Around the World in 80 Days (1873)
