Hail
"...to the..."
Victors
"Val-"iant
Michigan
200
According to the National Severe Storms Laboratory, hail equal to or larger in diameter than this piece of U.S. currency is considered "severe."
What is the Quarter?
200
This three-part movie series featured a fictional technology known as the flux capacitor, which required 1.21 gigawatts of power to function.
What is
200
This film was the true winner of the Oscar for Best Picture, and not La La Land, as was first announced after an error by PricewaterhouseCoopers
Was is Moonlight?
200
Everybody loves this patron saint of epilepsy.
Who is Valentine?
200
People from Michigan's Upper Peninsula, or UP, are commonly referred to as "yoopers." They call people who live south of the Mackinac Bridge, in the Lower Peninsula, this nickname.
What are trolls?
400
Hail forms in this type of cloud, colloquially known as a storm cloud.
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud?
400
This 1982 song by George Thorogood and the Destroyers was not popular when it was released, but over the years has gained popularity in commercials, movies, and TV, often used to not-so-subtly introduce an unsavory character
What is "Bad to the Bone"?
400
This team, led by a new quarterback (a former grocery bagger and Arena football player), went on to beat the Titans 23-16 in Super Bowl XXXIV following a string of losing seasons after moving to a new city.
Who are the Rams?
400
The brand name of this sedative medication is derived from the Latin word "vale" for farewell or goodbye.
What is Valium (diazepam)?
400
After happening only 13 times in its history and once since achieving statehood, Michigan became the first English-speaking government to ban this in 1847.
What is the death penalty?
600
This state capital with a population of approximately 60,000, is North America's most hail-prone city with an average of 9-10 hail storms per year. Hopefully the hailstones don't hit the nuclear missiles stored in nearby Francis E. Warren AFB.
What is Cheyenne, Wyoming?
600
This 1996 John Krakauer book, later made into a movie in 2007, chronicled the last few years of the life of Christopher McCandless (or, as he was known after abandoning his family, Alexander Supertramp).
What is "Into the Wild"?
600
This Detroit native, nicknamed the "Brown Bomber," held the heavyweight boxing title for a record 11 years, having won 69 of 72 fights over his career.
Who is Joe Louis?
600
The root of this pink- or white-flowering plant may have sedative or anxiolytic effects, and is commonly sold in dietary supplements to promote sleep.
What is valerian?
600
Michigan's state stone, this is both a rock and fossil composed of fossilized coral. It was named after Ottawa chief Pet-O-Sega and shares a name with a northwestern Michigan city where they are commonly found.
What are Petoskey stones?
800
These are the most commonly damaged type of object after a hailstorm. Experts agree that the true damage can only be assessed after 5-10 days.
Crops
800
In this comedic science fiction book series, the supercomputer Deep Thought computes that 42 is The Answer to the Ultimate Questions of Life, The Universe, and Everything
What is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?
800
This American Idol winner went on to have a less-victorious career, including acting in a traveling production of Grease, singing at shows in Bally's casino in Las Vegas, and writing a book titled Heart Full of Soul: An Inspirational Memoir About Finding Your Voice and Finding Your Place.
Who is Taylor Hicks?
800
In Norse mythology, this female figure served the god Odin to decide who lived and who died in battle.
What is a valkyrie?
800
Party's over! In order to keep up with it's growing population, Detroit became the first city to assign these to individual households in 1847.
1000
This modern hail suppression technique, also used at airports to manage fog, involves using rockets and artillery shells to deploy silver iodide in the atmosphere which encourages the growth of water droplets to form rain or snow.
What is cloud seeding?
1000
This is the colloquial name (and lyric) of the 1957 musical advertisement, officially known as "Technicolor Refreshment Trailer No. 1."
What is "Let's All Go to the Lobby"?
1000
Needing a win (rather than a tie) to advance past the group stage in the 2010 men's World Cup, this forward scored the only goal in the final seconds of the U.S.A. vs. Algeria match.
Who is Landon Donovan?
1000
This amino acid replaces glutamate in the mutation that causes sickle-cell disease, making hemoglobin prone to abnormal aggregation.
What is valine?
1000
Founded in 1668 by Jacques Marquette, this fishing and trading city was the first European settlement in the Midwest and the third-oldest one west of the Appalachians.
What is Sault Ste. Marie?
