Geography
This country hosts 7% of the globe’s renewable fresh water and has the most natural lakes in the world.
What is Canada?
This is the largest public ski resort in Utah and North America.
What is Park City Mountain Resort?
The office renovation started this month and year
What is December 2023?
Averaging in at 3.6 pounds, these books listed phone numbers of businesses and were no longer printed after 2019.
What are yellow pages?
This repeating zig zag-like pattern in architecture, is a decorative motif (pattern) resembling an inverted V, and is also the name of an oil company.
What is Chevron?
Number of US states that touch the Pacific Ocean. ($200 bonus if you can name the states!)
What is 5? Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington
Utah has this many National Parks ($200 bonus if you can name each of them)
What is 5? Arches, Bryce Canyon, Canyonlands, Capital Reef, and Zion?
This person found out they had a long-lost older sister at the age of 38
Who is Whitney Ward?
This butter and caramel flavored hard candy was first created in Germany in 1093, and introduced to the world under its current name in 1969.
What are Werther’s Original?
This beloved, soft-spoken painter known for his "happy little trees" once served as a tough drill sergeant in the U.S. Air Force before vowing never to raise his voice again.
Who is Bob Ross?
The King James Bible refers to it as the Salt Sea.
What is the Dead Sea?
These two railroads met at Promontory Point in Utah marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
What are the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads?
This person was featured in a VCBO newsletter and has 13 grandchildren!
Who is Jared Anzures?
Invented in 1949, this wireless communication device became widely used in the 1980’s and 90’s to send and receive short alphanumeric messages.
What is a pager?
This mythological figure was the central character in Homer's Iliad, and had a terrible heel.
Who is Achilles?
Come visit Mongo /Not far from the Congo /Tibesti mountains are not that bad /Yes, we’re talking, talking ’bout…
What is Chad?
This is the name AND (relative) elevation of the tallest peak in Utah
What is King’s Peak at 13,528 feet? (answers within 100 feet are accepted)
Bibi’s dog had this many puppies.
What is 8 puppies?
Not a dictionary, these sets of books communicate the meaning and accumulated knowledge of a subject.
What is an Encyclopedia set?
This unit of electrical resistance is also the sound you make when pretending to be enlightened.
What is an Ohm?
This Argentinian region’s name is Spanish for “big feet,” perhaps because Spaniards saw Indians who wore large boots.
What is Patagonia?
In 2002 Utah hosted the Winter Olympics. There were 78 total events including the return of this event.
What is Skeleton Sledding?
Before dodgeball, the office held an annual basketball game. During one intense game, this limb was broken, ending all future games. ($500 bonus if you can name the person that was injured!)
What is an arm? (What is Alex Booths arm for bonus)
Predating cassettes, these cartridges were introduced in 1965 and discontinued after 1988.
What is an 8 track?
This iconic band formed a year before VCBO, and had David Lee Roth as it’s original lead singer?
Who is Van Halen?