Met Gala Dresses
The Kennedy Administration
Movie Quotes
ESPN 8: "The Ocho"
The Balkans
100

To see the Met Gala, you'll have to pay $75000 dollars for a ticket. The art museum which hosts it, however, is free for everybody. 

What is the Metropolitan Museum of Art?

100

JFK was born from a marriage between the Kennedys and the Fitzgeralds, two of the most powerful Irish families in this city. 

What is Boston?

100

"I see dead people."

What is the Sixth Sense?

100

After ESPN 8: "The Ocho" appeared as a mock sports channel in this film, ESPN actually made it into a real program showing unusual sports every year.

What is Dodgeball?

100

This city - one of the most popular on the Croatian coast - has the ruined Palace of Diocletian at its heart. As the city expanded, new structures were built inside of its walls.

What is Split?

200

The 2021 Gala saw this NY congresswoman donning a white dress with "tax the rich" emblazoned across it in red.

Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

200

During his first year in office, Kennedy sent the Green Berets to train highland tribes so that they could assist anti-communist efforts in this country - a significant escalation of American involvement in the war there.

What is Vietnam?

200

"I'll be back."

What is The Terminator?

200

Alongside sports like Pinball, Flugtag, and combat juggling bowling pins on unicycles, this sport - throwing bean bags into a hole- is a mainstay of The Ocho.

What is Cornhole?

200

This sardonic actor, who starred in films like "Burn After Reading" and an oddly informative reading of "The Night Before Christmas" on SNL is of Croatian descent. A film was also made about "Being" him.

Who is John Malkovich?

300

This tennis star graced the red carpet in 2021 with a pink ombre gown with a long feathered cape designed by Versace?

Who is Serena Williams?

300

The Kennedy family home and political headquarters was located in this Cape Cod town.

What is Hyannis Port?

300
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."

What is The Usual Suspects?

300

ESPN 8 features the World Championship of this sport/computer program. Players have to solve various tasks and puzzles using things like data entry and formulas.

What is Microsoft Excel?

300

This author, born in Bosnia but spent most of his life around Belgrade, is the only Yugoslav writer to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His best known work, The Bridge on the Drina, follows the Bosnian town of Višegrad throughout its tumultuous history.

Who is Ivo Andrić?

400

This pop star blew away the 2019 Gala with 4 consecutive dress changes in a performance on the red carpet.

Who is Lady Gaga?

400

JFK often listened to his recording of this musical, which premiered in 1960 starring Robert Goulet and Julie Andrews, to help him sleep through his severe headaches. After his death, it would become a cultural byword for the Kennedy era.

What is Camelot?

400

"Here's looking at you, kid." "We'll always have Paris."

What is Casablanca?

400

This sport on The Ocho is a fusion of two others. One is a common form of exercise on two wheels, and the other is a horseback sport traditionally played by aristocrats.

What is Bicycle Polo?

400

This historic Bulgarian city is nicknamed "The City of the Tsars," having been the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire and a site where Bulgarian medieval architecture and religious thought flourished.

What is Tarnovo?

500

The 1996 Met Gala shined the spotlight on Princess Diana - whose iconic blue dress was designed by this French fashion house.

What is Dior?

500
In 1961, Kennedy received heavy flak for his poor performance in a summit with Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev. JFK felt Khruschev "beat the hell out of" him during their discussions on the neutrality of Laos and the fate of Berlin in this city - a neutral during the Cold War.

What is Vienna?

500

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"

What is Dr. Strangelove?

500

ESPN 8 broadcasts this race from Emerald Downs racetrack. Over a distance of 100 yards, and organized into multiple heats, nothing is unusal about how this race works. The only change is what runners can wear: an inflated costume of a giant extinct animal.

What are the T-Rex World Championship Races?

500

This palace was built in Istanbul to be a new, more Western-inspired home for the Sultan - replacing the older Topkapi Palace. It is one of the most popular tourist sites in the old Ottoman Capital, and was built (ironically) by the Armenian Balyan family of architects.

What is the Dolmabahçe Palace?