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kids movie trivia
100
the rarest M&M color
What is brown?
100
the favorite food of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turgles
What is pizza?
100
Harry Potter's school
What is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry?
100
the freezing point of water in Fahrenheit
What is 32 degrees?
100
the three primary colors
What are red, blue and yellow?
100
the US state with the largest population
What is California?
100
the leaf on the Canadian flag
What is a Maple leaf?
100
the sport that has world cup
What is soccer (European football)?
100
Harry Potter's owl's name
What is Hedwig?
100
the longest-serving coach in McGee history
Who is Mr. Keefe? (50 years)
100
the number of brothers Hans has in Frozen
What is 12?
200
the common name for dried plums
What are prunes?
200
a popular caffeinated beverage that was originally marketed as a tonic featuring cocaine
What is Coca Cola?
200
the actor who plays Captain Jack Sparrow
Who is Johnny Depp?
200
they fight infection in your blood
What are white blood cells?
200
the number of teeth expected in adult humans
What is 32?
200
the largest country in land mass
What is Russia?
(Russia takes up 11% of the world's land mass.)
200
the colors, in order, of the Mexican flag
What are green, white and red?
200
the name for the center of a target called in archery or darts
What is the bullseye?
200
the smallest country in the world
What is Vatican City?
200
teacher who was once a cowboy and an EMT
Who is Mitter Dix?
200
the vegetable that Shrek compares himself to
What is an onion?
300
a very popular, very American food invented in New Haven
What are hamburgers?
OR
What are lollipops?
300
American city famous for deep dish pizza
What is Chicago?
300
Vin Diesel's most famous line
What is "I am Groot"?
300
the boiling point of water in centigrade (Celsius)
What is 100 degrees?
300
the symbol on the Periodic Table for gold
What is Au?
300
a US state that is an exclave
What is Alaska?
OR
What is Hawaii?
300
the country in which Machu Picchu is located
What is Peru?
300
the number of football players who may be on the field at one time
What is 11?
300
Trivia Question: Which soft drink is the most popular world wide?
Coke
300
this teacher is a most amazing baker, bringing several pounds of cookies for teachers in around the winter holidays
Who is Mrs. Orabi?
OR
Who is Ms. Connolly?
300
the 3 hyenas in Lion King
Who are Shenzi, Banzai and Ed?
400
a popular fruit that has its seeds on the outside
What are strawberries?
400
the first vegetable to be grown in space
What are potatoes?
400
Star Wars Day
What is May the Fourth?
400
the number of bones in a shark
What is none? (Shark skeletons are all cartilage)
400
this mammal has no vocal cords
What is a Giraffe?
400
the largest country in terms of population
What is India?
400
the country in which you might find moussaka
What is Greece?
400
the score of a perfect game in bowling
What is 300?
400
the element with Atomic Number 1
What is hydrogen?
400
this teacher speaks fluent Russian
Who is Miss Epshtein?
400
where Lord of the Rings movies were filmed
What is New Zealand?
500
the hottest hot pepper in the world, at 1,400,000 - 2,000,000 Scoville Units
What is the Carolina Reaper?
Note: a jalapeno is rated at 2500 - 8000 Scoville units while a Habanero is rated at 100,000 - 300,000 Scoville Units.
500
1938
When was the Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookie invented?
500
the most accurate depiction of DMV employees ever in a movie - they are sloths
What is Zootopia?
500
the first animal to be successfully cloned was named Dolly and she was of this species.
What is a lamb? (or What is sheep?)
500
an octopus has three of these
What is a heart?
500
the most populous city in the US
What is New York City?
(at nearly 9 million people, that's 3x the population of CT)
500
the current name for the Sandwich Islands
What is the State of Hawaii?
500
the object you hit in badminton
What is a shuttle or shuttlecock?
500
the plural of sheep
What is sheep?
500
chess club adviser
Who is Mr. Beaupre?
500
the actual name of the dog in The Sandlot
Who is Hercules?
600
the main ingredient in hummus
What are chickpeas?
600
the first food eaten on the moon
What is bacon?
600
the first feature length animated movie ever made
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
600
the body part that contains the malleus, incus and stapes
What is the ear?
600
the largest moon of Saturn
What is Titan?
600
the volcano that exploded in 79AD burying two cities
What is Vesuvius?
600
where you would find the zero mile marker for the US
What is Washington, DC, a few yards west of the Washington Monument?
600
the number of periods in ice hockey
What is 3?
600
the artist who painted the Mona Lisa
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
600
this teacher once ran a half marathon on a broken foot
Who is Mr. Plona?
600
the three children selected to tour the chocolate factory in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Who are Veruca Salt, Mike Teavee and Charlie Bucket?
700
the only natural food that can never go bad
What is honey?
700
the most expensive spice in the world by weight
What is saffron?
700
the dragon in Mulan
Who is Mushu?
700
the three primary colors
What are red, blue and yellow?
700
the largest known mountain in our solar system
What is Olympus Mons?
700
the northernmost city in the world
What is Longyearben, Norway.
700
islands off the coast of Stony Creek in Branford, CT
What are the Thimble Islands?
700
the other name for the sport table tennis
What is Ping Pong?
700
the rarest human blood type
What is AB-?
700
this teacher plays clarinet
Who is Mrs. Janowski?
OR
Who is Mr. Cormack?
700
a movie about a Vermont State Police troop and their poor judgement in action
What is Super Troopers
800
the main ingredient of gelatin (jello)
What is cartilage, skin, and bones of animals?
800
a fruit that smells awful but doesn't taste like it smells
What is a durian?
800
the date of Geek Pride Day, also Towel Day
What is May 25?
800
cats have this many muscles in their ears to better help them to not listen to you
What is 32?
800
a venomous, egg-laying mammal
What is a platypus?
800
the most populous city in the EU
What is Berlin, Germany?
800
the governor and United States Senator from Connecticut that Indiana Jones is patterned after (including vest, hat and morals); he is best remembered for locating Machu Picchu
Who is Hiram Bingham?
800
the colors, in order, of the Olympic rings
What are blue, yellow, black, green and red?
800
the two planets in the solar system to rotate clockwise
What is Venus and Uranus?
800
this McGee staff member was once a D1 soccer player
Who is Mr. Sullivan?
800
the two Star Wars characters that appear in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Who are R2D2 and C3P0?
