DMV
Palo Alto / Stanford
Wallace Stegner
Literature
100

Black-eyed Susan

What is Maryland's state flower?

100

“The tall tree”

What does “Palo Alto” mean?

100

Sandra Day O'Connor

Who was one of Stegner's students?

100

Anthology featuring "Aliens"

What is "Amazing Graces"?

200

Original message graffitied on the train bridge crossing 495 beltway

What is Surrender Dorothy?

200

The sole exception Stanford made to its no-filming-on-campus rule

What is Issa Rae's Insecure?

Because of the rule, the script for Legally Blond had to be re-written. Instead, Reese Witherspoon's character went to Harvard.

200

Lake Mills, town 50 miles south of Waseca

What is the birthplace of Wallace Stegner?

200

Team named after Edgar Allen Poe's famous poem featuring a talking bird.

What is the Baltimore Ravens?

300

Seven thousand one hundred twenty seven in Maryland

What is D & K's Bethesda house number?

300

First Stanford University president David Starr Jordon's area of expertise

What is Ichthyology?

Eugenics or "Bionomics" also qualify as answers

300

President when Wallace Stegner served in the Department of the Interior 

Who is John F Kennedy?

300

A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.

What is a sonnet?

400

“Where the Arts come alive”

What is Bethesda’s slogan?

400

Comedian born in Palo Alto, now host of United Shades of America

Who is Walter Kamau Bell?

400

The steepest angle a pile of granular material can form

...also Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer prize winning novel

What is the Angle of Repose?

400

The heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

Who is Hester Prynne?

500

Road named after a MD politician who became director of the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service

What is Gude Drive?

500

Band originating in Palo Alto that fused rock, blues, jazz, folk, country, bluegrass, rock and roll, gospel, reggae, and world music with psychedelia 

What is The Grateful Dead?

500

CLEAR WEST ANGLE

What is an anagram of Wallace Stegner

500

Genre of this six-word story: 

For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.

What is Flash Fiction?