Great Lakes
Worldwide Trivia
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Colleges and Universities
100
This lake is the only one located completely within the United States.
What is Lake Michigan?
100
Bavaria, an area of this country, is famous for Oktoberfest.
What is Germany?
100
Carpe diem
What is Latin?
It means “seize the day.”
100
There are this many players are on the field for each team in a soccer match.
11
100
The “Blue Devil” is the mascot of this university
Duke University
200
What freighter sank in a storm in 1975 on Lake Superior and was later immortalized in a ballad by Gordon Lightfoot?
The Edmund Fitzgerald
200
New Haven, home to Yale University, is in this state.
What is Connecticut?
200
Rouge
What is French?
It means "red"
200
The 'Dog Pound' is located in which NFL city?
Cleveland
200
The “Beaver Stadium,” one of the largest college football stadiums, is at this university.
Penn State
300
This lake features Turnip Rock and the Saginaw River basin.
Lake Huron
300
Piccadilly Circus, Covent Garden, and South Kensington are stops on the subway system in this city.
What is London?
300
Disculpe
What is Spanish?
This is a good one to know if you’re around Spanish speakers. It means “excuse me.”
300
This is the diameter of a standard basketball hoop (in inches)
18"
300
Vanderbilt University is located in this state.
Tennessee
400
Lake Ontario (and its drainage basin) covers part of Ontario as well as which two U.S. states?
New York and Pennsylvania
400
This North American country’s flag depicts an eagle snacking on a snake.
What is Mexico?
400
Boa-noite
What is Portuguese?
It means “goodnight."
400
This college football team is known as "The Crimson Tide"
The University of Alabama
400
This New Jersey Ivy League school was originally named the College of New Jersey.
What is Princeton
500
This Great Lake has the longest shoreline of all the Great Lakes
Lake Huron
500
Keflavík International Airport is the gateway to this country.
What is Iceland?
500
Rodzina
Polish
It means "family"
500
This is the distance between the bases on a standard baseball field
90 feet
500
This university hosts the “Medill School of Journalism,” known for its strong investigative journalism program.
What is Northwestern University?