Geography
Southbridge history
Garden
Wild card 2
rod Murphy senior
100

These are the 7 continents of the world

What are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, Antarctica, Europe  

100

This manufacturer helped Southbridge earn its name as the “eye of the commonwealth”?

What is American Optical?

100

These flowers are the first to bloom at the end of winter

What are crocuses?

100

This Canadian city is the country’s capital

What is Ottowa?

100

This was RPM’s first job

What is paper boy?

200

This South American landmark is known as the lost city of the Incas.

What is Machu Pichu?

200

This is the year southbridge was incorporated 

What is 1816?

200

Peppers are graded according to their heat level with this scale?

What is Scoville?

200

This composer wrote The Marriage of Figaro.

Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?

200

This army camp is where RPM was in 1962 when his first child was born

What is Camp Drum in New York? 

300

This us the most northern capital city in the world

What is Reykjavik Iceland? 

300

This was the population of Southbridge in 2020

What is 17000?

300

This is the name of a backyard vegetable garden put in during ww2. 

What is a victory garden?

300

This national food of Spain is made with rice, saffron and seafood

What is paella?

300

This brick and mortar auto parts business was one of RPM’s many entrepreneurial endeavors 

What is Windham Napa Auto Parts? Bonus point for what town it was in - putnam ct

400

This is the highest mountain in North America

What is Dinali, aka mt McKinley? 

400

This manufacturer started in 1818 and made knives and surgical equipment 

What is Harrington cutlery company? 

400
You need both of these types of material to make good compost

What are greens (nitrogen rich) and browns (carbon rich)?

400

This is the author of Les Miserables

Who is victor Hugo?

400

This is the street in Cambridge where a triple decker was the home of RPM and his family for many years. 

What is Fairmont Ave? Bonus if you know the number of the house 34

500

This is how many countries there are in Africa?

What is 54?

500

This is the meaning of the name Quinabaug River

What is long pond (qunne = long, paug = pond)?

500

The training of a fruit tree to grow on a wall is called this

What is espalier?

500

This element has the highest atomic number in the periodic table 

What is uranium?

500

This is a mountain in New Hampshire where RPM enjoyed camping and fishing as a kid, and later visited with his kids. 

What is Crocket mountain in Bennington?