2020 News
Winter Food
Fruit
Bad Guys
Riddles
100

This social media site that debuted in 2016 rocketed to attention and became entangled in political affairs.

What is TikTok?

100

Acorn and butternut are two of the most popular winter varieties of this food?

What is squash?

100

The most common mandarin orange in the United States, it was named for a city in Morocco.

What is a Tangerine?

100

The name of the Netflix documentary about Joe Exotic.

What is Tiger King?

100

What has a head but never weeps, has a bed but never sleeps, can run but never walks, and has a bank but no money?

What is a river?

200

The city and country of the 2020 summer Olympics that have been postponed.

Where is Tokyo, Japan?

200

This is the most popular holiday pie. Costco's version is 4 lbs.

What is pumpkin pie?

200

Although this juice orange may have originated in Portugal, it bears the name of a Spanish city & region.

What is a Valencia?

200

This character hoped to make a coat out of 101 Dalmatians.

Who is Cruella de Vil?

200

You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy.

What is a candle.

300

On May 30, the first private company launched astronauts into space on this rocket.

What is SpaceX's Falcon 9?

300

Over 1.76 billion of these candy sticks are made every year for the holidays.

What are candy canes?

300

The Anjou & Comice varieties of this fruit originated in France.

What is a pear?

300

Princess Leia chokes this no-good alien to death.

What is Jabba the Hutt.

300

I was known to Greek philosophers a thousand years ago, I have numbers all in a line, and I can tell you if rain will turn to snow. What am I?

Thermometer

400

In mid-March this city became the epicenter of the coronavirus in the US with far more cases than many countries had at the time.

Where is New York City?

400

The Deadliest Catch follows crews hunting this prime winter catch.

What is Crab. Red king crab and opilio crab. Red king crabs are the largest crab species, weighing an average of six to 10 pounds (with the record female and male weighing 10.5 and 24 pounds, respectively. 

400

What we usually call this in the United States is actually the netted or nutmeg melon?

What is a cantaloupe?

400

In this 1988 film Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber spoils Bruce Willis' day?

What is Die Hard?

400

I have cities but no houses, forests but no trees, water but no fish. What am I?

What is a map.

500

For the four-week period ending April 11, sales of this supermarket item jumped 410% year over year, causing nationwide shortages.

What is yeast?

500

Blumenkohl is the German name for this winter vegetable.

What is a cauliflower?

500

Alligator pear is another term for this.

What is an Avocado?

500

He-man's arch-nemesis?

Who is Skeletor?

500

A cowboy gallops into town on Monday, stays for two days, and leaves town on Monday. How can this be?

The horse's name is Monday.