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100

Golden age film with aggressive avians.

What is "The Birds"?

100

"Eureka!" is this western state's motto.

What is California?

100

This holiday is celebrated on March 14th every year with pie despite National Pie Day taking place on January 23rd.

What is Pi Day?

100

This American sitcom which aired from 1985-1992 stars four older women who share a house in Miami, Florida.

What is "The Golden Girls"?


200

The initials for the DC Comic books were from taken from this comic book series


What is the Detective Comic series?

200

This island in the United States was opened to immigrants on January 1st, 1892.

What is Ellis Island?

200

Halloween is related to this older holiday of Celtic origin

What is Samhain?

300
This culture's written history mentions chocolate being used as a celebratory drink

What is Mayan?

300

This capital city in Europe is known for defenestrations...

What is Prague?

300

This holiday, with an estimated 145 million cards sent each year, is the second largest card-sending holiday of the year.

What is Valentine’s Day?

300

Some believe Jimmy Hoffa's body was buried under this stadium

What is the Giants Stadium?

400

From 1960-1962, chemical companies developed a new pesticide which the USDA used against S. invicta (red imported fire ant) in 1962. This pesticide was mixed with corn grits and soybean oil and dropped as bait.

What is mirex?

400

The Metric System was developed in this country.

What is France?

400

This river is dyed green to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. The practice started in 1962, when city pollution-control workers used dyes to trace illegal sewage discharges and realized that the green dye might provide a unique way to celebrate the holiday. That year, they released 100 pounds of green vegetable dye into the river–enough to keep it green for a week. Today, in order to minimize environmental damage, only 40 pounds of dye are used, and the river turns green for only several hours.

What is the Chicago River?

400

French Canadian hero from the Second World War.

Who is Léo Major?

500

Either 

1) The "zip" in zip code for this (3 words)

2) The year the plan was introduced


What is a Zone Improvement Plan (Introduced in 1963)?

500

This siege began in early 1993, when a government raid on a compound in Axtell, Texas, led to a 51-day standoff between federal agents and members of a millennial Christian sect called the Branch Davidians.

What is the Waco Siege?

500

This scientist who studied evolution was fascinated by sea urchins.

Who is Charles Darwin?