Deserts
My Friend's Dad
Weather
Fill 'Er Up
Game Show Hosts
200
The Cascades create this effect, capturing moisture on the Seattle side of the slopes while leaving Eastern Washington with large areas of semi-arid and fully arid deserts.
Rainshadow
200
My friend's Dad had a car dealership in Pennsylvania, specializing in this now defunct luxury offshoot line of General Motors.
Oldsmobile
200
On February 2 of every year, the citizens of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania hold a festival in honor of their most famous resident, a groundhog. Legend has it that this groundhog can predict whether or not spring will come early. This groundhog has a name. What is it?
Punxsutawney Phil
200
This classic gas station chain features a Brontosaurus as their primary logo.
Sinclair
200
Love Connection
Chuck Woolery
400
Most experts agree that a desert is an area of land that receives no more than this amount of precipitation a year.
25 centimeters or 10 inches
400
My friend's Dad worked for many years at a salmon hatchery on Bainbridge Island in Western Washington State. Hatcheries of this sort are controversial in the world of fisheries and conservation and are often protested by a fleet of ships of boats, which is known as a...
Flotilla
400
What strange weather phenomenon shares the name of an Emilio Estevez movie?
St. Elmo's Fire
St. Elmo's fire is ionized air that gives the impression of lightning (or fire), but is really just a discharge of electricity. It looks like something you'd see in a plasma lamp.
400
If you see a red Pegasus while you're driving, you are either on acid or pulling into a ______ station.
Mobil
400
Match Game
Gene Rayburn
600
North America has four major deserts. Name three of them, please.
Great Basin, Mojave, Chihuahuan and Sonoran.
600
A guy I know, his Dad played this, the second largest brass instrument, in the Disneyland brass band.
Tuba
600
What scale is used for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation.
Fujita Scale
600
Everyone loves pumping their own gas. But in these two states, self-serve is not allowed.
Oregon and New Jersey
600
Tic-Tac-Dough
Wink Martindale
800
Stretching from southern Peru to northern Chile, this desert is the driest place on Earth.
Atacama Desert
800
My Dad's friend Ralph is a noted pulmonologist and diving enthusiast. He was the primary physician for the US Free Diving Team and also taught this illusionist how to maximize his lung capacity, thus his being able to stay under water for a world record 17 minutes 4 seconds.
David Blaine
800
What instrument is used to measure wind speed?
Anemometer
800
Fueling up? Why not stretch your legs, fill up your tummies with brand-name snacks and soft drinks and urinate in our restrooms in this gas station's Extra Mile Convenience Stores.
Chevron
800
Sale of the Century
Jim Perry
1000
This is the largest desert on earth, which covers around 5.5 million square miles.
Antarctic Desert
1000
My friend Cort Jensen's Dad worked for the US Postal Service, who delivers this many pieces of mail each day. (Answer within roughly 10%)
The Postal Service processes and delivers 472.1 million mail pieces each day
Range between 430 million and 520 million
1000
In what part of the atmosphere does the vast majority of our weather take place?
The Troposphere
The troposphere is the lowest layer of the earth's atmosphere, going from the surface to approximately 35,000ft.
1000
From lowest to highest, list the 7 octanes of gasoline available in the USA.
85 (Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, South Dakota)
85.5 (Montana)
86 (New Mexico)
87 (Everywhere else)
89 (Mid-Grade)
91 (Premium)
93 (Premium)
1000
Win, Lose or Draw
Bert Convy