Galveston, The Tropical Crown Jewel of Texas
High School Group Projects
The Mountain Goats
Aphorisms of Garfield
Woodpeckers and also Berries of North America
100

The city of Galveston lies within this county.

What is Galveston County?

100

My AP Bio lab partner, who was planning on pursuing an MD, believed that eating an entire mango could cure one of this mosquito-borne disease.

What is Malaria?

100

This is a Mountain Goats song.

What is [insert Mountain Goats song]?

100

This astral body lends its name to the day of the week that Garfield hates.

What is the Moon?

100

The Gila Woodpecker tend to make their nests in mesquite trees as well as the saguaro variety of this type of plant.

What is a cactus?

200

French pirate Louis-Michel Aury was based in Galveston as he fought of the Spanish in this country's war for independence.

What is Mexico?

200

In a tangent during the 33 minute long cooking video I made for my senior Latin class final project, I compared Phaedrus' fable of The Stag at the Spring to this election won by George W. Bush.

What is the 2000 United States Presidential Election?

200

This second most populous country in Western Africa with its capital in Accra lends its name to a compilation Mountain Goats album released in 2002.

What is Ghana?

200

Garfield often threatens to ship Nermal to this Emirati capital city.

What is Abu Dhabi?

200

Berries often supplement the diets of woodpeckers, whose tendency to primarily consume bugs and larva make them an example of this type of feeding behavior characterized by the consumption of insects.

What is insectivory?

300

Galveston comprises most of Galveston Island as well as this island, home of the USS Stewart and USS Cavalla.

What is Pelican Island?

300

In my freshman year Latin class my partner did not show up to act in our skit because they had gone to act in this Netflix original series in which their character hacks a high school's grade database to edit someone's Latin grade in the very first scene of season four.

What is Stranger Things?

300

At the July 26th, 2025 Mountain Goats concert in North Adams, Massachusetts, the band performed a yet song titled "Broken to Begin With" from their new unreleased album. John Darnielle cracked a joke about the title, suggesting humorously that one might expect the band to name it something along the lines of "The Reign of King Alaric" rather than the straightforward title it received. Alaric was king of what is somewhat inaccurately called the western or "Visi" sub-group of this Germanic people with the same name as a subculture associated with the wearing of all black that lends their name to an 2017 album by The Mountain Goats.

What are Goths?

300

In some recipes for the medieval antecedents of Garfield's favorite food, It was recommended to, during lent, replace chicken fat with this nut that typically grows shelled inside of a green husk.

What is a walnut?

300

Wild strawberries, common across much of North America, lend their name to a 1957 film by this Swedish director of The Seventh Seal and Scenes from a Marriage.

Who is Ingmar Bergman?

400

Moody Gardens in Galveston contains three of these structures, the tenth tallest of which is in Memphis, Tennessee and is currently a Bass Pro Shops.

What is a pyramid?

400

I once had to work with someone in AP Macro, who I'd later learn was the sister of Huh Yunjin, a member of this K-Pop girl group.

What is Le Sserafim?

400

In the song Foreign Object the "sharp thing hidden in my hand" is said to be shaped like this ancient astronomical instrument used for measuring the altitude of celestial objects.

What is an astrolabe?

400

President Garfield was quoted as describing this act, which would eventually claim his own life, as to be "no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either".

What is assassination?

400
Described by Ovid in the myth of Pyramus and Thisbe, this berry, introduced to North America by Europeans, is said to have shifted from white to red due to the blood of the tale's young lovers.

What is a mulberry?

500

The Galveston Sand Crabs were a professional team that played this sport in the South Texas League and Texas League from 1903 to 1912, and again from 1922-1924.

What is baseball?

500

For a 9th grade history video project on the Black Death, I portrayed Pope Clement VI, who oversaw the Catholic Church from his seat in this French city.

What is Avignon?

500

This Aztec feathered serpent deity is referenced in the titles of several early Mountain Goats songs.

Who is Quetzalcoatl?

500

This oft forgotten Garfield quote describes what should be done to those people who pose Garfield the greatest irritation, such as whomever invented the Christmas Tree as well as those who sing poorly.

What is "They should be drug out onto the street and shot"?

500
The ivory-billed billed woodpecker was once the largest known woodpecker in North America, but now that it is extinct that title falls to this type of woodpecker with a prominent red crest.

What is the Pileated Woodpecker?