Games
Infectious Diseases
Design & Architecture
Plants
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100
This card game features adorable but deadly felines and is described as "a kitty powered version of Russian Roulette"
What is Exploding Kittens?
100
These two words are a well-known term for someone who spreads disease or misfortune to others. One of the words is also part of a famous gay burger hangout in Hillcrest.
What is Typhoid Mary?
100
This city has the most Frank Lloyd Wright houses in the U.S.
What is Oak Park, Illinois?
100
This Japanese word for the art of miniature trees literally translates to "planted in a container"
What is bonsai?
100
The exclusive Sonoma County region famous for its Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot blends
Alexander Valley
200
This popular online game gives players six attempts to guess a five-letter word
What is Wordle
200
These small arachnids, known for attaching to hosts and sucking blood, can transmit Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever and possibly result in facial paralysis
What are ticks?
200
This architectural style, popular in the 1920s and 1930s, is characterized by bold geometric shapes, rich colors and lavish ornamentation.
What is Art Deco?
200
This diverse family of flowering plants has over 28,000 species, is known for its complex and often showy blooms, and includes the vanilla plant
What is an orchid?
200
This classic cocktail combines bourbon or rye whiskey with sugar, bitters, and a cherry garnish
What is an Old Fashioned?
300
This ancient game, played with 28 rectangular "bones" has roots tracing back to 17th century China
What is Dominoes
300
Doctors wore this when treating which disease in the 16th and 17th centuries?
What is bubonic plague?
300
This type of pre-engineered metal building system, named after its manufacturing company, is known for its quick assembly and use in commercial and industrial structures.
What is a Butler building?
300
These trees are home to a national park, a sound bath and the largest boulder in California.
What is Joshua?
300
This town in Sonoma County is known for its zinfandel and syrah production
What is Healdsburg?
400
Originally called "Number Place," this popular puzzle was renames with a Japanese word meaning "single number"
What is Sudoku?
400
This viral hemorrhagic fever, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has a high mortality rate and causes severe bleeding.
What is Ebola?
400
This primary color, along with red and blue, forms the basis of many color theories in design.
What is yellow?
400
The most common plant on earth
What is grass?
400
This wine-based apertif from Turin, Italy is a key ingredient in classic cocktails like the Negroni and Manhattan
What is vermouth?
500
This game includes Draw, Reverse, Skip and Wild cards.
What is Uno?
500
Along with Mr. Butts, a comedic rendering of this disease is sometimes seen in Doonesbury and is known as Mr. ____."
What is Covid?
500
This American architect, known for his use of white and geometric forms, designed the Getty Center in Los Angeles and the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.
Who is Richard Meier?
500
On Oct. 20, 2023, Washington D.C. attorney Kristin Hucek was in the lead on the TV show Jeopardy when she buzzed first in the category "Houseplants." The clue had a picture of this plant and the clue was was "Though its name means 'loving tree,' it's very popular indoors as a houseplant." She named this plant, which was deemed incorrect, but caused an outcry from Jeopardy fans as actually being the correct answer.
What is Monstera?
500
This process for harvesting and extracting juice for winemaking is also one of the two words of a hugely popular video game.
What is crush?