NCAA D1 Football Teams
Nepo Babies
RELIGION HAS ITS PLACE
TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY
AN "F" IN HISTORY
FINAL JEOPARDY
100
Colorado State University
Who are the Rams?
100
This public servant is the child of the 41st President of the United States.
Who is George W. Bush?
100
"Kirk" is a Scottish word for church, & Greyfriar's Kirk has stood for 400 years in this capital's Old Town
Where is Edinburgh?
100
As a young man, D.C.-born J. Edgar Hoover worked at this library as a messenger & in the cataloging department
What is the Library of Congress?
100
These essays were written "in favor of the new Constitution"
What are the Federalist Papers?
200
Florida State University
Who are the Seminoles?
200
“You’re So Vain” is written by this songwriter and heir to a major publishing company.
Who is Carly Simon?
200
This type of house of worship can be decorated with inscriptions of Koranic verses, but no human figures
What is a mosque?
200
Known as "The Bod", the Bodleian Library at this British university contains 4 copies of the Magna Carta & a Gutenberg Bible
What is (the University of) Oxford?
200
One month after this royal was killed in 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
200
Category
The First Thanksgiving
300
Oregon State University
Who are the Beavers?
300
This actor won an Oscar in 1996 for his role in “Leaving Las Vegas”. He is also a member of the Coppola family.
Who is Nicholas Cage?
300
The Naval Academy one is pretty grand, though the word generally means "smaller than or subordinate to a church"
What is a chapel?
300
NYC's Riverside Branch pioneered open these, despite librarians' fears that patrons would steal the books
What are open stacks?
300
U.S., British & Iraqi forces retook this Iraqi city in the second battle of it at the end of 2004
What is the Battle of Fallujah?
300
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Tisquantum (known famously as Squanto) was a translator for Massasoit and Governor Bradford who spoke English and Wampanoag, a language from this Indigenous language family of the Americas.
400
Appalachian State University
Who are the Mountaineers?
400
In the show “Maid,” Andie MacDowell and this actress play mother and daughter, replicating their actual familial relationship.
Who is Margaret Qualley?
400
Jesus was a regular shulgoer--the King James Bible says, "as his custom was, he went into" this "on the Sabbath day"
What is the synagogue?
400
This city's main public library, named for Mayor Harold Washington, has a teen learning center called YOUmedia
What is Chicago?
400
The son of Japanese immigrants, he was the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000; his daughter ran for the job 3 times
Who is Fujimori?
400
Question
What is Algonquian?
500
United States Air Force Academy
Who are the Falcons?
500
“Here a while back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge" is a line that is featured in the film “No Country for Old Men,” which is a direct reference to this actor’s father, who was a hitman.
Who is Woody Harrelson?
500
Here is an image clue of Hanoi's Tran Quoc Buddhist temple & if we had olfactory clues, you could smell the Hoi An this
What is incense?
500
Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world's first known library in the 600s B.C.
Where is Assyria?
500
Like a university, a river in British Columbia is named for this explorer who reached its mouth in 1808
Simon Fraser