Rocks for Jocks
Oregon Geology
Pop Culture
Natural Disasters
Space Stuff
100

The type of plate boundary that runs along the Pacific Northwest

What is Convergent (Subduction)?

100

Oregon's only national park

What is Crater Lake?

100

This movie had the biggest box office success of 2023 (so far)

Barbie

100

The Pacific Northwest's 'Big One'

What is an inevitable >8.0 magnitude earthquake?

100

The order of the planets, starting closest to the Sun

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

200
The three main types of rocks

What are Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic?

200

Oregon's state rock

What is thunderegg?

200

The members of the band Boygenius

Who are Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers, and Julian Baker?

200

Avalanches, rockfalls, creep, and mudflows are all types of this

What is mass wasting (mass movement)?

200

Southern equivalent of the Aurora Borealis

What is Aurora Australis?

300

Limestone and dolomite erode to produce these spooky structures

What are caves? (Karst Caves)

300

Structure frequently seen in Oregon's volcanic rocks, including at Skinner Butte

What is columnar basalt?

300

The rerecorded albums Taylor Swift released in 2023 

What are Speak Now and 1989?

300

This many acres burned during Oregon 2023 fire season

What is 160,000 acres?

300

Process responsible for creating all heavy elements

What is stellar/supernovae nucleosynthesis?

400

Most abundant mineral group in the Crust

What are silicates?

400

Multistate glacial floods that washed through the Willamette Valley repeatedly

What are the Missoula Floods?
400

Disaster struck this undersea tour to the site of a famous shipwreck

What is the Titan Submersible?

400

The year Mt. St. Helens erupted

What is 1980?

400

Age of the Milky Way Galaxy

What is ~13.4 billion years old?

500

Jasper, Agate, Onyx, Citrine, and Chalcedony are all made of this mineral

What is quartz?

500

The largest Cascade Volcano, and flanked by lakes on its East and West sides

What is Newberry Volcano?

500

Recently released movie adaptation of a famous video game, starring Josh Hutcherson

Five Nights at Freddy's

500

The Southwest United States is currently experiencing a severe __, the worst in the region in 1,200 years

What is a megadrought?

500

The planet with the largest magnetic field

What is Jupiter? If visible would be 3x larger than the moon from Earth