The 50 States
Odd Words
Also a Baseball Team
Classic Disney Films
Extreme Weather
100
"America's Dairyland", it produces about 1/4 of our nation's butter & cheese
Wisconsin
100
From the Latin for "cup", a chanterelle is one of these edible fungi
Mushroom
100
Them commies!
The Reds
100
Chim-Chim Cheree! This film featuring chimney sweeps swept up 13 Oscar nominations
Mary Poppins
100
Haboob is an alternate & more fun to say word for this; in 524 B.C. a haboob is said to have buried 50,000 Persian soldiers in the Egyptian desert without leaving a trace
Sandstorm
200
To visit the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, you have to go to this state
Ohio
200
To cachinnate is to do this loudly, maybe while watching your favorite sitcom
Laugh
200
Grades that should guarantee you 4.0
The A's
200
Monstro is the monstrous whale who swallows Geppetto in this beloved film
Pinocchio
200
A lethal combination of pollution & high pressure, the Great Smog that covered this capital for 5 days in 1952 claimed thousands of lives & led to changes in law
London
300
This state's only public university is located in Laramie
Wyoming
300
A snaste is this part of a candle after it's been snuffed
Wick
300
People who illegally copy software or DVDs
The Pirates
300
The Mickey Mouse version of this Dickens classic features Goofy as the ghost of Jacob Marley
A Christmas Carol
300
The hottest air temperature ever recorded on Earth was here in the good old U.S.A.; 134 degrees Fahrenheit in this desolately named spot near the Panamint Mountains
Death Valley
400
In September bring your appetite to Las Cruces in this state for the Whole Enchilada Fiesta
New Mexico
400
A katana is a single-edged one of these used by a samurai
Sword
400
Sailors, whether ancient or not
The Mariners
400
Famous voices in this film include Ed Wynn as the Mad Hatter & Jerry Colonna as the March Hare
Alice in Wonderland
400
Never mind the usual comparison to golf balls, how about a volleyball? In South Dakota in 2010, the largest of these ever measured, came down at 8 inches across & weighed about 2 pounds
Hailstone
500
It's the only New England state that doesn't have a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean
Vermont
500
Eutexia is the quality of doing this at a minimum temperature, like ice in a soft drink
Melt
500
Sailors, whether ancient or not
Orioles
500
This 1961 film was the first to feature a magical substance called Flubber
The Absent-Minded Professor
500
The Saffir-Simpson scale categorizing hurricanes is named in part for Robert Simpson, who was interested in meteorology from age 6 when this alliterative rise in sea level interrupted his dinner in Corpus Christi
Storm Surge