Hard Geography
Art History
Category Potpourri #2
NHL and Hockey Knowledge
The Eternals Movie Trivia
Famous West Virginians
Ocean Animals
100

This South American city is the highest national capital in the world

What is La Paz?

100

This famous Tuscan painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer is also credited with one of the earliest drawings of an "aerial screw" resembling a helicopter

Who is Leonardo DaVinci?

100

Nerds vs. Jocks: Also the atomic number of carbon, this is the number of points scored from a touchdown in the NFL

What is 6?

100

This phrase is used when referring to the collective group of the Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers, Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks

What is the Original Six?

100

Running at 157 minutes (2 hours and 37 minutes), The Eternals is the second-longest running film in the MCU after this movie, which ran for 181 minutes (3 hours and 1 minute).

What is Avengers: Endgame?

100

This person was drafted by the LA Lakers in 1960 and helped them win 6 NBA championships. In 1996 he was named one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history.

Who is Jerry West?

100

At 90 feet long, this animal is the largest animal on Earth

What is a blue whale? 

200

This Pennsylvania city is home to Arnold Palmer, Fred Rogers, and the banana split

What is Latrobe?

200

One of Picasso’s famous paintings, this work was inspired by the bombings of civilians during the Spanish War

What is "Guernica"?

200

TV Dinner: According to CNET, Netflix’s most watched show of 2021 was this calamari sounding drama. 

What is Squid Game?

200

 Hockey is one of the few sports in which player substitutions do not require a stop in play, a phenomenon commonly called this

What is “change on the fly”?

200

In addition to The Eternals, this actor appears in another Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) movie: Captain Marvel.

Who is Gemma Chan?

200

This person was the first American female gymnast to win the Olympic individual all-around gold medal and score a perfect 10 on the vault in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Who is Mary Lou Retton?

200

This fish thrives in fresh water and salt water and shares part of its name with a land mammal

What is a bull shark?

300

This is the only United States state that does not have a flag in a shape with 4 edges

What is Ohio ? 

300

Georges Seurat was an impressionist painter who used tiny dots of pure colors to create images, a style known this

What is Pointillism?

300

Put it in Perspective: If you ever mess something up at work, remember the captain of this ship that blocked the Suez Canal for 6 days in March 

What is Ever Given?

300

In this year, the NHL become the first major professional sports league to release a sustainability report

What is 2014?

300

These two DC comic characters are mentioned by name in The Eternals.

Who are Superman and Alfred Pennyworth?

(When Sersi and Ikaris meet Kingo and his assistant Karun on the Bollywood film set, Gilgamesh jokes about Karun being like Alfred, referring to Batman's butler. When Sersi and Ikaris visit Phastos and his family in Chicago, Phastos' adoptive son Jack incorrectly calls Ikaris Superman. This is the first MCU movie where its counterpart DC is mentioned openly.)

300

This person was the first person to officially break the sound barriers in 1947. Clue: The capital city’s airport is also named after this person.

Who is Chuck Yeager?

300

Also known as a cigar shark, this animal shares a name with a commonly used baking utensil

What is the cookie cutter shark?