WEIGHTS & MEASURES
(FAIRLY)RECENT MOVIES
STATES' GEOGRAPHIC CENTERS
Minnesota-cana
COLLEGE VOCABULARY
400

At Starbucks a venti hot drink is this many ounces

20

400

Alicia Vikander plays this young woman who switches jobs from bicycle courier to tomb raider

Lara Croft

400

In Pulaski County 12 miles northwest of Little Rock

ARKANSAS

400

The Mall of America is located in this city.

Bloomington

400

Russet & tan are shades of this Ivy Leaguer

BROWN

800

It takes 640 of these units of land measure to make 1 square mile

Acres

800

Woody Harrelson as The Colonel leads the humans against the chimps in this movie

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES

800

5 miles north-northwest of Cadillac

MICHIGAN

800

Known as The Land of 10,000 Lakes, Minnesota is also known as this.

The Gopher State or The North Star State.

800

A botanist might call this Houston school Oryza sativa

Rice

1200

In the West one square mile of land is also called this

A Section

1200

Oscar winner Casey Affleck takes care of his nephew in this place By the Sea

MANCHESTER

1200

In Avoyelles Parish 3 miles southeast of Marksville

LOUISIANA

1200

Minnesota is cold, however of the 48 contiguous states, this one had the coldest recorded temperature of -70 in 1954.

Montana

1200

In Britain this Southern school would have a peerage & rank just below prince

Duke

1600

Pharmacists know that a grain equals about 65 of these, a more typical unit for pill doses

MILLIGRAMS

1600

In 2016 she donned the pillbox hat to play Jackie (Kennedy)

NATALIE PORTMAN

1600

In Hernando County 12 miles north-northwest of Brooksville former Home of the Tangerine

FLORIDA

1600

The Mayo Clinic is located in this city

Rochester

1600

In Wisconsin it's a yellow cheese; in Maine it's a 2000-student college

Colby

2000

A lively dance is in the name of this measure of booze that can be the equivalent of a shot

JIGGER

2000

He won an Oscar in 2018 for playing troubled cop Jason Dixon in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri

(SAM) ROCKWELL

2000

In the Pacific at 20 degrees 15 minutes north latitude 156 degrees 20 minutes west longitude

HAWAII

2000

POLARIS INDUSTRIES OF ROSEAU INVENTED THIS 

Snowmobile

2000

A Portland liberal arts college or part of an oboe's mouthpiece

Reed