Olympics
Apparatuses used in this sport include pommel horse, vault, uneven bars, beam, rings, and high bar.
What is gymnastics?
HOMES is a mnemonic device used to remember these individual lakes.
What are Lakes Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior?
The Grinch's animal companion.
Who is Max the dog?
An earthquake, coastal landslide or volcanic eruption can cause these catastrophic waves.
What is a Tsunami?
In Harry Potter, Severus Snape belonged to this house as a student.
What is Slytherin?
Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz, Jenny Thompson, and Katie Ledecky have all competed in this Olympic sport.
What is swimming?
These two countries share the world's longest border.
What are the U.S. and Canada?
Known to fly backward, forward, and hover, this bird can beat its wings 60 to 80 times per second.
What is the hummingbird?
This "season" runs from June 1 thru November 30
What is the Atlantic Hurricane season?
This planet completes one rotation every 10.7 hours, making it the second fastest spinning planet in the solar system.
What is Saturn?
This country has hosted 4 Summer Olympics and 4 Winter Olympics making it the country to host the most Olympic games in the modern era.
What is the United States?
The highest city in the world, it sits at 3869 meters or about 2.40 miles above sea level.
What is La Paz, Bolivia?
A comic strip about this orange cat is the world's most widely syndicated comic strip
What is Garfield?
The Sami of northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia believed that these lights represented the souls of the dead.
What is the Aurora Borealis?
This spice, native to southwest Asia, is considered the most expensive spice in the world.
What is saffron?
In the Parade of Nations during the Opening Ceremony, this country traditionally marches in last.
What is the country hosting the Olympic games?
The Amazon and Orinoco rivers originate in this mountain chain, which is the world's longest above-ground chain at about 4300 miles long.
What are the Andes mountains?
Found in North America, this species of bear is known to purr.
What is the Black bear?
This atmospheric optical phenomenon occurs during twilight and shares its name with a Taylor Swift song title.
What is afterglow?
This make and model of car has been the longest continuously used automobile nameplate in the world.
What is Chevrolet Suburban?
In 1896, this American became the first modern Olympic champion when he won the hop, skip and jump or triple jump, as it is now known.
Who is James Connolly?
The world's smallest ocean basin at 5.4 million sq. miles.
What is the Arctic Ocean?
An elephant's trunk has over 40,000 of these.
What are muscles?
Advection, freezing, evaporation, frontal, hail, precipitation, ground, upslope, ice and radiation are all types of this weather phenomenon.
What is fog?
In 1927 this movie starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers won the first Academy award for Outstanding Picture.
What is "Wings"?