Geography
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American History
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Zombies!!!
100

Used in ancient times by the poet Tibullus, "The Eternal City" is a nickname given to what European capital?

Where is Rome?

100

The Maine Hunting Shoe, which is also known as a "duck boot", was the first product ever sold by what clothing brand, which is now the third largest company in Maine?

What is L.L. Bean?

100

What Native American language is renowned for being used by code talkers from a namesake tribe during World War II?

What is Navajo?

100

Which Elvis Presley song was featured in his debut 1956 movie of the same name?

What is Love Me Tender?

100

What was the first feature length zombie film?

What is White Zombie?

200

How many U.S. state capitals lie west of Los Angeles?


What is six?

200

Who is known as the "Father of Haute Couture"?

Who is Charles Frederick Worth?

200

 A specific war in U.S. history is largely credited as cutting off the supply of British goods and thus stimulating American industry in Pittsburgh. Only a few years later, the city was producing large amounts of iron, brass, tin, and glass. What is this war with inadvertent benefits for Pittsburgh's manufacturing?

What is the War of 1812?

200

Who sang the 1961 classic "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"?

Who are The Shirelles?

200

Which Halloween song includes the following lyrics: "The zombies were having fun, the party had just begun"?

What is Monster Mash?

300

Lódz, Wroclaw, and Poznan are the third, fourth, and fifth most populous cities (respectively) in what European nation?

Where is Poland?

300

What is a carved, portrait-profile brooch called?

What is a cameo?

300

One of the most memorable, and contentious, elections in U.S. history was a narrow win for Rutherford B. Hayes over what Democrat, then Governor of New York, who had won the electoral college votes?

Who is Samuel J. Tilden?

300
Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" was featured in which movie?


What is Armageddon?

300

 According to Harvard ethnobotanist Wade Davis, a living person can actually be turned into a zombie using the flesh of what aquatic animal?

What is a pufferfish?

400

Costa Rica is bordered by two countries: Nicaragua and what Central American country whose largest cities include San Miguelito and Las Cumbres?

Where is Panama?

400

Which designer is known for creating the iconic "Le Smoking" tuxedo suit for women in 1966?

Who is Yves Saint Laurent?

400

Commonly nicknamed “Black Wall Street” due to the thriving African American business within the area, what district in Tulsa, Oklahoma was burned to the ground during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre?

Where is Greenwood?

400

While Jennifer Rush’s famous version of "The Power of Love" was released in the UK in July 1985, in which European country was the original single released ten months earlier?

Where is West Germany?

400

The concept of zombies dates back to what epic poem?

What is The Epic of Gilgamesh?

500

 What island is the largest in the Mediterranean Sea?

What is Sicily?

500

In 1917, an employee of the Universal Fastener Company received a patent for a device called the Separable Fastener, which we would recognize as the modern zipper. What was his name?

Gideon Sundback

500

What activist for gay liberation and drag queen was one of the central figures of the Stonewall uprising in 1969? She was a performer with the Hot Peaches and the Angels Of Light, and was also an AIDS activist.

Who is Marsha P. Johnson?

500

Which classic love song was written in 1960 by Doc Pomus, a man who couldn't dance at his own wedding due to his childhood polio?

What is "Save the Last Dance for Me"?

500

In the 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, which is widely credited with establishing the modern zombie genre, how many times is the word "zombie" said? (answer up to the number "ten")

What is zero?