Canadian Maritime Provinces
Art museums
Building materials
Bostonians
X marks the spot
100

The only maritime province that is entirely an island

What is Prince Edward Island?

100

The Smithsonian Institution's National Gallery of Art is in this city.

What is Washington DC?

100

The building material that makes the Statue of Liberty green.

What is copper?

100

The Philadelphian on the $100-bill, who left his hometown of Boston as a penniless 17-year-old.

Who was Benjamin Franklin?

100

What you should look for if you don't like being in this building.

What is the exit?

200

The U.S. State/States that has/have a land border with New Brunswick.

What is Maine?

200

The world's most famous painting, this faintly-smiling Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece hangs in the Louvre in Paris.

What is the Mona Lisa?

200

Noah built the ark out of this material.

What is gopher wood?

200

Two of the four U.S. Presidents born in the Boston area.

Who are John Adams, John Quincy Adams, John Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush?
200

This is a test.

What is an examination [exam]?

300

The reason 30+ int'l flights carrying 6800 people landed suddenly in 9000-person Gander, Newfoundland, on one day in Sept 2001.

What is the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States?

300

This museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, is the world's second-largest after the Louvre in Paris.

What is the Hermitage?

300

The strong material you get by adding sand or gravel to cement.

What is concrete?

300

The quarterback who led the Boston-based New England Patriots to six Super Bowl wins.

Who is Tom Brady?

300

What Marie Curie did in her lab.

What is experiment?

400

The bay in the middle of the maritime provinces, which all 4 touch.

What is the Bay of St. Lawrence?

400

The 1980s movie Rocky shows a boxer training by running up the stairs outside this art museum.

What is the Philadelphia Museum of Art?

400

The Crystal Palace built in London for the 1851 Worlds Fair was the first large building made mostly of this material.

What is glass?

400

A Boston insurance company is named after this man whose name is a synonym for "signature" because he made his so large on the Declaration of Independence.

Who was John Hancock?

400

What the Catholic Church did to Martin Luther because of his ideas. 

What is excommunication?

500

The province that is home to more speakers of Scottish-Gaelic than anyplace outside Scotland.

What is Nova Scotia?

500
NYC's Guggenheim Museum was designed by this architect, who also designed Falling Water, a house outside Pittsburgh PA.

Who was Frank Lloyd Wright?

500

Red brick was the most popular material in this architecture style in colonial Boston -- a style named for the kings of English in the 1700s.

What is Georgian?

500

The Bostonian poet who in1861 wrote Paul Revere's Ride, a poem about another famous Bostonian.

Who was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?

500

The only two 2-letter scrabble words that begin with X.

What are XI and XU?