Celebrate with PRIDE
For 100 points: This six-color icon, designed by Gilbert Baker in 1978, serves as the universal symbol of LGBTQ+ pride and diversity.
What is the Rainbow Flag?
For 100 points: Juneteenth commemorates the end of this brutal system of forced labor in the United States, following the conclusion of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
For 100 points: This classic summer dessert, traditionally made over a campfire, consists of a toasted marshmallow and a layer of chocolate sandwiched between two graham crackers.
What is a S'more?
For 100 points: Despite having no brains or nervous systems, these ocean creatures have survived all five of Earth's mass extinctions and are biologically immortal under the right conditions.
What are jellyfish?
For 100 points: Kicking off on June 11, this massive global soccer tournament is being co-hosted by three North American countries: the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
What is the FIFA World Cup?
For 200 points: This New York City bar was the site of the June 1969 uprising that serves as the catalyst for the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and the inspiration for Pride Month.
What is the Stonewall Inn?
For 200 points: On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in this Texas island city to deliver General Order No. 3, officially informing enslaved people they were free.
What is Galveston?
For 200 points: This popular outdoor lawn game, often played at summer BBQs, involves players taking turns throwing fabric bean bags at a raised, angled wooden board with a hole in it..
What is Cornhole (or Bean Bag Toss)?
For 200 points: Because they lack sweat glands, these pink, mud-loving farm animals actually wallow in the mud to keep their skin cool and protect themselves from sunburn.
What are pigs?
For 200 points: For the first time in history, the 2026 Men's FIFA World Cup has expanded the tournament field from 32 teams to this record-breaking number of competing nations.
What is 48?
For 300 points: In 1977, this civil rights leader made history by being elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming one of the first openly gay elected officials in the United States.
Who is Harvey Milk?
For 300 points: Though Juneteenth marks the day freedom finally reached Texas, this executive order issued by Abraham Lincoln technically declared enslaved people free two and a half years earlier.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
For 300 points: Often considered the "Capital of BBQ," this Midwestern city is famous for its slow-smoked meats covered in a thick, sweet, tomato-and-molasses-based sauce.
What is Kansas City?
For 300 points: This iconic European monument can grow up to six inches taller during the summer because the intense heat causes its iron structure to undergo thermal expansion.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
For 300 points: In July, Major League Baseball's brightest stars will head to the "City of Brotherly Love" to play the 96th annual MLB All-Star Game at this stadium, home of the Philadelphia Phillies.
What is Citizens Bank Park?
For 400 points: This Black, transgender activist and self-identified drag queen was a central figure in the Stonewall Riots and co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) alongside Sylvia Rivera.
Who is Marsha P. Johnson?
For 400 points: Known as the "Grandmother of Juneteenth," this activist walked from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., at age 89 to campaign for Juneteenth to become a federal holiday.
Who is Opal Lee?
For 400 points: When grilling, the faint, dark parallel lines seared onto the surface of meat or vegetables are caused by this scientific chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars.
What is the Maillard reaction?
For 400 points: Because of how their unique shoulder blades and bones are structured, these slow-moving mammals can actually hang upside down even after they have died.
What are sloths?
For 400 points: Starting July 4, cycling's legendary Tour de France will make history by hosting its "Grand Départ" (opening stages) for the very first time in this European country, starting in the city of Barcelona.
What is Spain?
For 500 points: Decades before Stonewall, this pioneering LGBTQ+ rights organization was founded in Los Angeles in 1950 by Harry Hay to protect and improve the rights of gay men.
What is the Mattachine Society?
For 500 points: In 1872, Black community leaders in Houston pooled $800 to purchase this 10-acre plot of land specifically to host their annual, independent Juneteenth celebrations.
What is Emancipation Park?
For 500 points: In traditional Southern barbecue, this specific pinkish layer of meat found just below the crust (or "bark") is caused by nitric acid absorbing into the meat during a long smoke.
What is the smoke ring?
For 500 points: Cultivated in 1951 from a patient named Henrietta Lacks, this famously "immortal" human cell line was the first to be successfully grown in a lab and is still used in medical research today.
What are HeLa cells?
For 500 points: In late July, the multi-sport Commonwealth Games return for their 23rd iteration, being hosted entirely in this major Scottish city after a condensed, targeted sports program was approved.
What is Glasgow?