"STATE" OF THE UNION
TO BE OR NOT TO "B"
THEORY (OR HOAX) OF EVERYTHING
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DAZE
GOURMET CUISINE
100

THIS GREAT LAKE IS LOCATED ENTIRELY WITHIN U.S. BORDERS.

What is Lake Michigan?

100

THE STAR SIGN TAURUS IS REPRESENTED BY THIS ANIMAL.

What is a bull?

100

THIS THEORY IS BASED ON MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS AND MODELS SUGGESTS THAT THE UNIVERSE BEGAN WITH ONE SMALL SINGULARITY.

What is the Big Bang Theory?

100

THERE ARE THIS NUMBER OF NOUNS IN THE SENTENCE, "THE RABBIT RAN TO THE CAFETERIA AND ATE A BIG SALAD."

What are three?

100

THIS IS THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH WATER FREEZES (IN CELSIUS).

What is zero degrees?

200

THIS STATE HAS A POPULATION SMALLER THAN SIX AMERICAN CITIES AND SHARES ITS BORDERS WITH ONE ONE OTHER U.S. STATE. 

What is Maine?

200

THIS ANIMATED FILM WAS THE FIRST TO BE NOMINATED FOR THE OSCAR FOR BEST PICTURE.

What is Beauty and the Beast?

200

THIS THEORY INDICATES THAT A SQUARED + B SQUARED = C SQUARED.

What is the Pythagorean Theorem?

200

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG WAS FOUGHT DURING THIS WAR.

What is the Civil War?

200

THIS COOKING TERM MEANS "TO PEEL", AND IS A HOMONYM OF A GREEN OR YELLOW FRUIT.

What is pare?

300

THIS IS THE OLDEST IN THE U.S. AND WAS OVERTAKEN THREE TIMES - BY SPAIN, BRITAIN, AND SPAIN AGAIN - BEFORE BELONGING TO THE UNITED STATES AT LAST.

What is St. Augustine, Florida?

300

THIS CITY HOSTED THE 1992 OLYMPICS AND IS ALSO THE TITLE OF AN ED SHEERAN SONG.

Where is Barcelona?

300

THIS THEORIST'S PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT STAGES ARE BASED OFF OF SIGMUND FREUD'S WORK AND INCLUDES STAGES LIKE TRUST VS. MISTRUST AND INTIMACY VS. ISOLATION. 

Who is Erik Erikson?

300

THESE IMAGINARY LINES TRAVERSE THE GLOBE FROM POLE TO POLE.

What are meridians?

300

IT IS SAID THAT IF YOU FIND THIS LOCALLY AND EAT IT, YOU WILL SUFFER LESS WITH ALLERGIES.

What is honey?

400

THE MASSIVE COLUMN OF IGNEOUS ROCKS CALLED DEVIL'S TOWER WAS ONE OF FOUR NATIONAL MONUMENTS DECLARED BY PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT IN 1906 -  IT IS LOCATED IN THIS STATE.

What is Wyoming?

400

THIS ARTIST ANNOUNCED AN ALL-FEMALE TOUR BAND IN 2006 AND INCLUDED BASSISTS, DRUMMERS, HORN PLAYERS, KEYBOARDERS, AND PERCUSSIONISTS.

Who is Beyoncé? 

400

THE THEORY BY THIS PERSON STATED THAT GENERAL RELATIVITY PREDICTED THAT THE SPACE-TIME AROUND EARTH WOULD BE NOT ONLY WARPED BUT ALSO TWISTED BY THE PLANET'S ROTATION.

Who is Albert Einstein?

400

A GALLON OF WATER WEIGHS THIS MUCH.

What is 8 pounds?

400

THIS FOOD NETWORK STAR'S SHOW OFTEN FOCUSES ON THE SCIENCE BEHIND FOOD AND COOKING.

Who is Alton Brown?

500

THIS STATE IS THE HOME OF THE NATION'S OLDEST HORSE CAROUSEL IN THE TOWN OF WATCH HILL. 

What is Rhode Island?

500

IN THE SHAKESPEARE PLAY THE GHOST OF THIS CHARACTER HAUNTS MACBETH.

Who is Banquo?

500

THIS ILLNESS HAS CREATED MANY CONSPIRACY THEORIES, ONE OF WHICH IS THAT IT WAS RELEASED  TO CREATE AN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY. 

What is COVID-19 or Coronavirus?

500

BY COMBINING TWO OTHER METALS, LIKE ONE WOULD COMBINE COPPER AND TIN TO CREATE BRONZE, YOU CAN CREATE THIS.

What is an alloy?

500

THERE ARE THIS MANY TABLESPOONS IN ONE CUP.

What are 16?