Geography
Mountains
Potpourri 1
Movie Cars
Potpourri 2
Religion
Middle East Farming (not on quiz)
Minion Trivia
Musical Instrument Trivia
100
A landform at the mouth of a river formed by sediment. You may be familiar with this if you had World Regions 6.
What is a delta?
100
Highest terrestrial mountain range in the world.
What are the Himalayas?
100
Having to do with a city.
What is Urban?
100
Doc was this type of car in Cars.
What is a Hudson Hornet?
100
The word meaning "to change or to affect something".
What is influence?
100
The largest religion in India.
What is Hinduism?
100
Human-made waterways.
What is a canal?
100
The number of Minions in the first movie to feature Minions.
What is 7?
100
The class of instruments that make their sound because of one object striking another.
What is percussion?
200
A landmass smaller than a continent but larger than an island.
What is a subcontinent?
200
Highest terrestrial mountain in the world.
What is Everest?
200
The hazard that often accompanies seasonal monsoon.
What is flooding?
200
The car at the center of the horror film Christine.
What is a 1958 Plymouth Fury?
200
The powerful Muslim empire from the 600s.
What is Mughal Empire?
200
The largest religion in the world.
What is Christianity?
200
A mixture of rich soil and very small rocks deposited by flood waters. Egypt is named for this.
What is silt?
200
The Minion with braces.
Who is Otto?
200
This percussion instrument with 88 keys makes its sound by striking strings with felt covered hammers.
What is a piano?
300
The holy river in India.
What is the Ganges?
300
Mountain range in Northwest India that separates India from the Middle East.
What are the Hindu Kush Mountains?
300
The most important natural resource in India.
What is fertile soil?
300
The car featured in a 1977 movie starring Burt Reynolds.
What is a Pontiac Trans Am?
300
The group of Europeans who successfully conquered much of India starting in the 1600s.
Who were the British?
300
The third largest religion in the world.
What is Hinduism?
300
A name for the arc of fertile farmland on which the world's first known civilizations developed.
What is the Fertile Crescent?
300
Vector's weakness.
What are Girl Scout Cookies?
300
The class of instruments that make their sound by blowing air through a tube or over a reed. The name is deceptive, as not all instruments of this class are made of the material in the name.
What are woodwinds?
400
An important river in Pakistan, it fills much the same role that the Nile River fills in Egypt.
What is the Indus River?
400
Second highest terrestrial mountain in the world.
What is K2?
400
Having to do with the countryside.
What is rural?
400
A car heavily modified by Emmett Lathrop Brown that became quite exciting at 88 mph.
What is a DeLorean DMC-12?
400
Territory in one land controlled by and inhabited by people from a conquering land.
What is a colony?
400
Roman Catholic Christian clergy names.
(not on quiz)
What are Priest or deacon?
400
The tool used to break through soil to ready it for planting.
What is a plow?
400
Their gender.
What is male?
400
A brass instrument played by making a buzz sound in a tapered metal cup, while pressing valves to alter the overall length of the instrument to change pitch; a player puts their hand in the bell while playing.
What is a French Horn?
500
The river for which India is named.
What is the Indus River?
500
Mountain ranges on the western and eastern coasts of India.
What are the Eastern Ghats and the Western Ghats?
500
The type of climate that dominates much of India.
What is Tropical?
500
The car known as "Eleanor" in the 1974 movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" and its 2000 remake.
What is a Ford Mustang?
500
To split a country into two or more parts.
What is partition?
500
A religion based on the teachings of Prince Siddhartha Gautama.
What is Buddhism?
500
The two rivers that made farming in Mesopotamia possible.
What are Tigris and Euphrates?
500
A movie based on a Theodore Geisel character that had a cameo appearance by a Minion.
What is The Lorax?
500
The main instrument of Blue Men.
What is PVC Pipe?
600
Another name for the Great Indian Desert.
What is the Thar Desert?
600
Highest mountain (absolute) on Earth.
(not on quiz!)
What is Mauna Kea?
600
The first civilization on the Indian subcontinent.
What is Harappa?
600
The family's name for the Paragon Panther automobile in the book and movie by James Bond creator Ian Fleming about a car that was part Jinn.
What is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
600
The British organization that controlled much of India through use of a private army of country soldiers known as Sepoys.
What is the East India Company?
600
The age of Judaism.
(not on quiz)
What is 3700 years?
(What is 4000 years is an okay answer too.)
600
The most common name for the area where the first known civilizations developed; its name means "land between two rivers"?
What is Mesopotamia?
600
The Minion that can play ukulele and guitar.
Who is Stuart?
600
An instrument consisting of a set of wooden bars struck by a mallet to produce sound.
What is a xylophone?
700
Caused by geography, it is a weather pattern consisting of seasonal winds that bring either moist air or dry air for weeks or months on end.
What is monsoon?
700
Highest known mountain in the solar system and the planet on which it may be found.
(not on quiz!)
What is Olympus Mons on Mars?
700
The group of powerful warriors who settled along the Indus and Ganges.
Who were Aryans?
700
The marque (manufacturer name) for the car that James Bond drove in the original James Bond movies. (Double points if you know the model.)
What is an Aston Martin?
700
The event, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny, that put the British Government in direct control of India.
What is the 1857 Revolt?
700
A system of social organization sometimes associated with the Hindu religion, it controlled all aspects of people's lives including who you could have as friends, what job you could do and who you could marry.
What is the Caste System?
700
The practice that made farming so efficient that new jobs developed.
What is irrigation?
700
How many types of Minion are there?
What is 48?
700
The largest of all band instruments, it consists of a conically bored tube and valves that change the overall length of the instrument to change pitch; it takes its name from the Latin word for "trumpet" and is available in 3/4, 4/4, 5/4 and 6/4 sizes.
What is a tuba?
800
A river in India that flows from northern India into Bangladesh.
What is the Ganges?
800
The Arnold Schwarzenegger movie in which the highest mountain in the solar system was a key plot element.
What is Total Recall?
800
The language of the Aryans.
What is Sanskrit?
800
The movie that featured a 1959 Cadillac with a custom Futura Duplex body by Miller-Meteor.
What is Ghostbusters?
800
An Indian lawyer and civil rights leader.
Who was Gandhi?
800
The name by which Prince Siddhartha Gautama is known through history.
What is Buddha?
800
They destroyed crops, killed livestock, and washed away homes, but they also improved the soil.
What are floods?
800
The heterochromatic Minon.
Who is Bob?
800
An instrument consisting of a set of metal bars struck by a hard mallet to produce sound.
What is a glockenspiel?
OR
What are Orchestra Bells?