The Superbowl
South America
Begins and Ends with the Same Letter
Hot Soup!
Dendrology
100

The two teams in the Superbowl are the champions of these two conferences. 

What are the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference? 

100
The official language of this country, the largest in South America, is Portuguese owing to its former status as a Portuguese Colony. 

What is Brazil?

100

Instead of coming in through the door, you could be creative and enter your home through this threshold. 

What is a "window"? 

100

The classic complement to grilled cheese

What is tomato soup?

100

Want to know how old a tree is? Try counting these, concentric layers of wood formed annually just beneath a tree's bark. 

What are rings? 

200

The Denver Broncos with Peyton Manning and Vonn Miller last won the Super Bowl in 2015 when they faced off against this team. 

Who are the Carolina Panthers? 

200

Before Delcy Rodriguez and Nicolás Maduro, Hugo Chavez was the leader of this nation, known for its stunning natural beauty, talented baseball players, and immense oil reserves. 

What is Venezuela? 

200

Those who love reading might have signed up for this instead of Jeopardy for Friday afternoons. 

What is bookclub?

200

The most common varieties of this American seafood soup include Manhattan (tomato-based based broth, no milk) and New England (milk or cream based), and both are delicious. 

What is clam chowder?

200

A side effect of drought across the state of Colorado has been the killing of millions of lodgepole and ponderosa pines by these small insects. 

What are pine beetles? 

300

This trophy is what winning team is awarded at the end of the game. 

What is the Vince Lombardi Trophy?

300

Ecotourism is a huge industry in this country, which has the most biodiversity per square mile of any nation, in part due to The Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution. 

What is Ecuador? 

300
If you don't want to use a stapler, this small mechanism can also hold your class handouts together. 

What is a paperclip?

300

Gently fry onions, then cook them in beef stock, and serve in a bowl covered with a piece of bread with melted cheese to get this savory soup with a European name. 

What is French Onion Soup?

300

These beautiful trees, common in the mountains of Colorado, have distinctive white trunks, fluttery leaves that turn yellow in the fall, and grow in colonies or "stands" which are connected by a single root system. 

What are Aspens? 

400

The 2026 Superbowl will be played in this US State. 

What is California? 

400

The Incan Empire stretched across several modern day countries, but it's epicenter was the mountainous region of this nation, home to ancient cities like Cuzco and Ollantaytambo. 

What is Peru?

400

What you need at lunch if you don't want to make a mess. 

What is a "napkin"?

400

This cold soup from southern Spain is made with tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, and peppers and is delicious in the summer alongside crusty bread. 

What is Gazpacho?

400

If you love a green canopy, you should thank this pigment, which absorbs sunlight in leaves all spring and summer before breaking down in fall when leaves show their true colors. 

What is chlorophyll? 

500

Tom Brady is the quarterback with the biggest number of super bowl starts (10). After Tom Brady, these TWO players have the second most starts (5).

Who are John Elway and Patrick Mahomes? 

500

Called the "Superclásico," The futbol (soccer) match between River Plate and Boca Juniors is something of a national holiday in this nation, and many consider it the most important club soccer rivalry in the world, even greater than Real Madrid and Barcelona. 

What is Argentina? 

500

This small pasta shape is often confused with rice! 

What is "orzo"? 

500

Head to Federal Ave for many establishments specializing in this Vietnamese noodle soup. 

What is Pho? 

500

Unlike conifers, which stay green all year round, trees in this category (like oaks, maples, and cottonwoods) have broad, flat leaves that change color, drop before winter, and regrow each spring. 

What are deciduous trees?