Harry Potter
Door County
Genetics
Comic Strips
Human Health
100

The cat of the caretaker of Hogwarts.

Who is Mrs. Norris?

100

The bar at PC Junction is made of these items.

What are doors?

100
The number of chromosomes the average human has.

What is 46?

100

The kid in "Peanuts" that always fell asleep in class.

Who is Peppermint Patty?

100

What is the name of the of the current pandemic virus?

What is SARS-CoV-2?

200
People who have done this are the only people who can see Thestrals.

What is "seen death"?

200

Two boulders identify this location marker in Door County, one at a wayside on Hwy 42 and a second in Meridian Park in Jacksonport.

What is the 45th parallel?

200

The two scientists who discovered the structure of DNA. (First and Last names)

Bonus Question:  The common name for this DNA structure.

Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?


Bonus:  What is the double helix?

200

The mailman that regularly got creamed by Dagwood running for the bus.

Who is Mr. Beasley?

200

The 1918-19 pandemic, also known as the Spanish Flu was caused by this virus.

What is Influenza A?

(also accepted: H1N1)

300

This is where Harry and friends broke in to retrieve the prophecy that originally sent Voldemort after Harry.

What is the Department of Mysteries?

(also accept: Hall of Prophecy)

300

Get a glimpse of 1880s Door County life in the replica village located here.

What is Heritage Village at Big Creek?

300

This person was the first to have their entire genome sequenced

Who is James Watson?

300

The superhero alter-ego of Calvin of "Calvin & Hobbes".

Who is Stupendous Man?

300

The medical term for tongue-tie, the condition when a band of tissue tethers the tip of the tongue to the floor of the mouth.

What is ankyloglossia?

400

The name for a person that can speak to snakes.

What is Parselmouth?

400

This is where you will find Thordarson Boathouse, one of the most stunning buildings in Door County.

What is Rock Island?

400

The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for this.

Genome-editing by CRISPR-CAS9.

Bonus for naming the 2 proteins.

400

The "Dilbert" character that schemes to conquer the world.

Who is Dogbert?

400

The first human heart transplant was done in 1968 in this country.

What is South Africa?

(This first transplant remains the most publicized event in world medical history - according to an article from 2009). 

500

Harry heard this on the train when the dementor tried to kiss him.

What is "his mother's scream"?

500

This geological foundation stretches from New York State, through Niagra Falls, the upper penninsula of Michigan, and through Wisconsin to terminate in northern Illinois and defines the geography of Door County.

What is the Niagra Escarpment?

500

The term used to describe the act of removing the nucleus of an egg and replacing it with the nucleus of an adult cell.

What is cloning?

500

This was the first comic strip that defined its standard form still used today.

Who is "The Yellow Kid"?

(Also accepted, "What is Hogan's Alley"?)

500

Both Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech licensed their modified mRNA technology for the covid-19 vaccine from this US university.

What is the University of Pennsylvania?