Ken Jennings' Maps & Geography
Ken Jennings' Maps & Geography Part II
American Geography & History
American Government & Economy
Ken Jennings' Greek Mythology
Ken Jennings' Greek Mythology Part II
The Northeast
The Southeast
The Midwest
The Southwest
The West
100
The first person to survey the height of Mount Everest added an extra ___________ feet because 29,000 exactly seemed suspicious.
What is 2 feet?
100
What's the only state with a one-syllable name?
What is Maine?
100
What were the first 10 Amendments collectively known as?
What is the Bill of Rights?
100
To what branch of government do the President and Vice President belong?
What is the Executive Branch?
100
Who was the leader of the Titans?
Who was Cronus?
100
What was Galatea before being transformed into a person?
What is a sculpture?
100
What is this an image of?
What is Niagara Falls?
100
What sport is this?
What is NASCAR?
100
What is defined as "level or gently rolling land covered in grasses, with few trees"?
What is a prairie?
100
How did the Grand Canyon form?
What is the fact that the Colorado River eroded surrounded rock over millions of years to form it?
100
What is defined as a tall post carved with the images of people and animals?
What is a totem pole?
150
The world's largest living structure is twelve hundred miles long off the coast of Australia, and is even visible from space. What's it called?
What is The Great Barrier Reef?
150
What city was the first to ever have a population top seven digits?
What is Rome?
150
How many countries border the United States, and what are they?
What is two, Mexico and Canada?
150
What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?
What are the Bill of Rights?
150
Between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite - who was judged the most beautiful?
Who was Aphrodite?
150
Theseus used what, to help him navigate the Minotaur's maze?
What is a ball of thread?
150
What is this an image of?
DAILY DOUBLE
In what year did it open?
What is Ellis Island?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is 1892?
150
This is one of the oldest cities in the Southeast, founded in 1670 by English settlers.
What is Charleston?
150
What three major rivers flow through the Midwest?
What are the Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Ohio Rivers?
150
Which 4 states makes up the Southwest?
What is Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona?
150
Which state in the West has the hottest place in all the region? Which state has the most extreme winter temperatures?
What is California (Death Valley) and Alaska?
200
What is the name of the longitudinal imaginary line that passes through Greenwich, England?
What is the prime meridian?
200
What is the world's biggest lake?
What is the Caspian Sea?
200
What is defined as "a hill, but with a flat top"?
What is a mesa?
200
A person or a company who makes a good or service to sell to others is known as a what?
What is a producer?
200
Instead of blood, a golden substance called ________________ ran through the gods veins.
What is ichor?
200
Athena turned this master weaver into a spider.
Who was Arachne?
200
This is the highest mountain in the Northeast.
DAILY DOUBLE
In which state is it located?
What is Mount Washington?
DAILY DOUBLE
What is New Hampshire?
200
This is a drawing of a large farm, known as a __________, where enslaved Africans were forced to work.
What is a plantation?
200
What are religious people who set up settlements to teach religion?
What are missionaries?
200
What are the two main rivers in the Southwest region?
What are Rio Grande and the Colorado River?
200
What is the name of the geographical area made up of countries that border the Pacific Ocean?
What is the Pacific Rim?
250
What is the Japanese name for their country?
What is Nippon?
250
Mount Chimborazo is located in what South American country?
What is Ecuador?
250
What are the FIVE regions of the United States?
What is the Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, Midwest, and West?
250
How many Amendments to the Constitution have their been?
What is 27?
250
What was the weapon forged by the Cyclopes for Hades?
What is a helmet?
250
Odysseus used this name to help him defeat Polyphemus.
Who was Nobody?
250
Land that is almost surrounded on all sides by water is known as a what?
What is a peninsula?
250
This type of plant is often considered a symbol of the region.
What is Spanish Moss?
250
What river connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the St. Lawrence River?
250
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Father Marcos de Niza both brought along this man, when searching for "cities of gold."
Who was Estevan?
250
What is a prospector?
Who are people that search for gold or other minerals?
300
What is the size of the Earth in mile?
Must be within 2,000 miles.
Bonus 300 points if you know the exact size.
What is 24,902 miles?
300
About how deep is the Mariana Trench?
Must be within 2,000 feet.
What is 36,000 feet?
300
Who were the main members of the Axis alliance during World War Two?
Who was Germany, Italy & Japan?
300
The process through which goods and ideas spread between different countries is called _____________.
What is globalization?
300
Who stole fire from Olympus for humans?
Who was Prometheus?
300
Who was Orpheus' wife?
Who was Eurydice?
300
What is the largest state park in the US?
What is Adirondack Park?
300
This is a dirt or concrete wall that keeps water from overflowing riverbanks.
What is it called?
What is a levee?
300
Which of the 5 Great Lakes IS NOT located in the Midwest?
What is Lake Ontario?
300
What were the two main goals of missions?
What was to teach Christian beliefs to the Native Americans and to claim land for Spain?
300
What are systems with pipes that carry water long distances?
What are aqueducts?
350
What is the only country whose flag looks different on the back?
Where is Paraguay?
350
What is the name of the unscientific organization that does not believe that the Earth is round?
What is the Flat Earth Society?
350
What is the best definition of the word adapt?
What is to change to fit a new set of conditions?
350
On what date was the Declaration of Independence approved?
What is July 4th, 1776?
350
What is Poseidon's Roman name?
What is Neptune?
350
What is the term for extreme arrogance?
What is hubris?
350
What is the name of this landmark?
What is Boston Commons?
350
This person would sign an agreement in which he or she promised to work for free for a period of time.
What is an indentured servant?
350
Who invented the steel plow in 1837?
Who is John Deere?
350
What reservoir did the Hoover Dam create once it was built on the Colorado River?
What is Lake Mead?
350
In what year did the California Gold Rush begin?
When is 1849?
400
What is the fear of maps called?
What is cartophobia?
400
The Southern Ocean was not "created" until what year?
Must be within 2 years. Hint: it is within the last 30 years.
What is 2000?
400
What is the belief that it was Americans’ “clear duty” to expand the nation from coast to coast?
What is Manifest Destiny?
400
_____________ are things that encourage us to take an action, such as making a purchase.
What are incentives?
400
What type of tree is a symbol of Zeus?
What is an oak?
400
Charybdis was a demonic ___________ monster with a giant mouth.
What is a whirlpool?
400
Which two states account for the most agricultural output?
What is New York and Pennsylvania?
400
At what speed (in miles per hour; MPH) is a hurricane considered a Category 5?
What is more than 157 MPH?
400
What state is the nation's top egg-producing state?
What is Iowa?
400
Describe 4 causes of erosion.
What are rivers (such as the Colorado) flowing through an area, what is rainwater (that washes away dirt, soil, and rock), what are melting and moving glaciers, and what is wind that picks up sand and blows it against rocks and mountains?
400
What 4 cities in the west were some of the largest in the country by 1920?
What are Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Denver?
450
Missouri is known as The _____________ State.
What is The Show-Me State?
450
What is the world's oldest surviving republic?
Bonus 450 points: Give the full name.
What is the Most Serene Republic of San Marino?
450
Land along rivers is called a _________ _________, formed after a river overflows.
What are flood plains?
450
_____________ means that one country’s economy relies upon the economies in other countries to succeed.
What is interdependence?
450
What was Hera's favorite animal?
What is a peacock?
450
Poseidon's sons Otus and Ephialtes were killed by what kind of weapon?
What is a spear?
450
What is the name of this landmark?
What is Independence Hall?
450
What two Southeastern states stayed in the Union during the Civil War?
What is Kentucky and West Virginia?
450
What was the largest Native American city in the United States, and in what modern state would it be located?
What is Cahokia, and it was located in Illinois?
450
In what year was Texas annexed to the United States? And what war did it lead to?
When is 1845 and it led to the Mexican-American War?
450
In what city and in what year was the first air conditioned office building opened?
What is San Antonio in 1928?
500
What super volcano is technically bigger than Mount Everest, and located in Hawaii?
Where is Mauna Kea?
500
If a 2007 finding holds, the Amazon River is actually __________ miles longer than the Nile.
Must be within 10 miles.
Bonus 500 points if you can give the exact distance.
What is 93 miles longer?
500
What is an underground layer of porous rock that holds water called?
What is an aquifer?
500
What amendment gave everyone over 18 the right to vote?
What is the 26th amendment?
500
Who was the hero, turned into a rooster for failing to announce the sunrise?
Who was Alectryon?
500
What animal is Apollo's special sacrifice?
What is a wolf?
500
An exclusive right to make and sell an invention is known as a what?
What is a patent?
500
What is the name of this flower? And to what state is it the state flower?
What is a camellia and what is Alabama?
500
What two parts is the Midwest split into, and in what direction (North, South, East, West) do they lie?
What are the Great Plains to the west, and the Central Plains to the east?
500
In what year did Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his companion hear about "cities of gold" while traveling through present-day Texas?
When was 1528?
500
What are the 11 states of the West?
What is California, Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii?
550
The death of what British admiral and his fleet led to a prize to solve the problem of longitude?
Who is Sir Cloudesley Shovell?
550
The Washington Monument became the tallest building in what year?
Must be within 10 years.
What is 1884?
550
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War?
Who was Jefferson Davis?
550
What is known as the process of hiring people to work outside of a company?
What is outsourcing?
550
Heracles calmed the savage horses in his eighth labor by feeding them their master, who was he?
Who was King Diomedes?
550
This mortal man understood the speech of animals.
Who was Melampus?
550
What 11 states are incorporated in this region?
What are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware?
550
What 12 states make up the Southeast?
What are Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Florida?
550
What 12 states make up the Midwest?
What are North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio?
550
What are the four fastest growing metropolitan areas in the Southwest, that were mentioned in the text?
What are Houston, TX; San Antonio, TX; Dallas, TX; and Phoenix, AZ?
550
What two places became states in 1959? For what reasons?
What is Hawaii and Alaska?
Hawaii was an important stop on the trading route to Asia. Alaska was purchased from Russia and initially considered a waste of money, however not once oil and gold were discovered!