Black History
Groundhog Day
Junk Drawer
Cookies
Board Games
100
This couple were plaintiffs in the 1967 supreme court case against the state of Virginia that decided state laws banning marriage between individuals of different races violated both the Due Process and the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, winning the right to marry for interracial couples across the United Sates.
Richard and Mildred Loving
100
This 1993 film starring Bill Murray is the story of a man living the same day 12,395 times over again.
Groundhog Day
100
According to the US EPS, this is the most frequently encountered material in MSW landfills.
Paper
100
The chocolate chip cookie is the official state cookie of these two states.
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
100
This game was originally intended to demonstrate that an economy that rewards individuals is better than one where monopolies hold all the wealth.
Monopoly
200
The first African American child to attend a whites-only school in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.
Ruby Bridges
200
This was the first year ever that the Groundhog Day ritual was held indoors with no fans in attendance and all participants, including Phill, wore face masks.
2021
200
A space where you store random unorganized items just for the sake of putting them away is often referred to as a "Doom" box or drawer, in this instance what is D.O.O.M. an acronym for?
"Didn't organize, only moved"
200
The animal cracker was the first commercial cookie in the United States, introduced in what year?
1902
200
Some historians believe that this game is the oldest game in the world based on the archaeological evidence found in Jordan that dates around 6000 BCE.
Mancala
300
An agricultural scientist and inventor in the early 20th century who developed hundreds of products using peanuts, and developed techniques to improve types of soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton.
George Washington Carver
300
According to legend; if the groundhog sees his shadow after emerging from his hole on February 2nd, how many more weeks of winter should we expect?
6 weeks (42 days)
300
This person came up with a self named method of decluttering in which each item is assessed individually by asking "does this spark joy"?
Marie Kondo
300
What is the best selling cookie in the United States?
Oreo
300
This special move in chess gets it's name from the French word for "in passing", which is how this capture works.
En Passant
400
In 1968, she became the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress and represented New York's 12th congressional district.
Shirley Chisholm
400
February 2nd was chosen as Groundhog day because it is a "cross-quarter" day, meaning it falls at the midpoint between one season and another. The winter solstice and what other day make it a cross-quarter day?
Spring Equinox or Vernal Equinox
400
"Picture Puzzle Piece" is a poem about all the possibilities a single misplaced puzzle piece holds, written by this prolific American poet and published in 1992.
Shel Silverstein
400
What is the most popular type of home-baked cookie?
Chocolate Chip Cookies
400
The origins of this classic board game can be traced back to traditional Chinese board game "Jungle" also known as "Game of the Fighting Animals" or "Animal Chess". Jungle also has pieces (but of animals rather than soldiers) with different ranks and pieces with higher rank capture the pieces with lower rank.
Stratego
500
Known as the winning lawyer of the famous case Brown v. Board of Education, in which segregated schools were declared unconstitutional.
Thurgood Marshall
500
According to Punxsutawney Phil canon; the "elixir of life" administered at the annual Groundhog Picnic has kept this prognosticating rodent alive for how many years?
138 years
500
Stephen Perry was a 19th-century British inventor and businessman. His corporation, Messers Perry and Co, Rubber Manufacturers of London, made early products from vulcanised rubber. On 17 March 1845, Perry received a patent for this common household product.
Rubber Band
500
Despite being "now considered the great melting pot of Modern American Womanhood", this popular figure in baking never actually existed.
Betty Crocker
500
This has been called the longest board game ever produced, with estimates that a full game would take 1,500 hours to complete.
The Campaign for North Africa