Literature
North Carolina is the setting for this romance story. The movie adaptation won the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss in 2005.
The Notebook
This state's state fair holds the record for highest single day state fair attendance in the entire country.
Minnesota - Teri, Nikki, Kristin, Zach, Nick
This team from Florida are the reigning back to back Stanley Cup champions.
Florida Panthers
Julie, Andrew
Cartography refers to the study and creation of this.
Maps
This soon to be President led a volunteer cavalry regiment during the Spanish-American war called the "Rough Riders."
Theodore Roosevelt
DAILY DOUBLE
This book from 1990 was written with the purpose of showing the fanaticism around high school football in Texas.
Friday Night Lights
This state shares it's name with a brand of canned iced tea that is priced for 99 cents.
Arizona - James
Wisconsin's beloved gas station chain Kwik Trip will have some stiff competition when this gas station chain from Texas opens it's first Wisconsin location in 2027.
Buc-ee's
Chad
This city is the start of U.S. Route 66 that covered over 2,400 miles ending in Santa Monica.
Chicago
This U.S. ship sunk in the battle of Pearl Harbor receives over 2 million visitors a year.
In Lord of the Rings the character of Aragorn is actually a descendent of what ancient race of men?
Numenorean
This animal is on the California state flag despite being extinct in the state since the 1920's.
Grizzly Bear (California Grizzly Bear)
Jeanne
In 1607 this colony was founded as the first permanent English settlement in what would become the state of Virginia.
Jamestown
Olivia, Sarah, Jania, Brittany
DAILY DOUBLE
This national park shares Wyoming as it's home state along with Yellowstone.
Grand Teton
This Duke is credited with helping to defeat Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. His name is also referenced in a dish you might have at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant.
Duke of Wellington
The opening lines of this novel include:
"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic Childhood."
Angela's Ashes
Local legend states that this Rhode Island delicacy was first served at Aunt Carrie's in 1920.
Clam Cake
Brit
In 1979 a coalition of students from these two universities located in the same state began developing a strategy to beat the game of Blackjack.
MIT and Harvard
Massachusetts - Ben
In the John Wick universe we have seen Continental Hotel locations in New York City, Morocco, Rome, and this Japanese city.
Osaka
This woman who served in the Crimean War is considered the founder of modern nursing.
Florence Nightingale
Montana's nickname of "Big Sky Country" actually comes from the Western novel "The Big Sky" written by this author.
A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Every four years this publication makes a list of the top 50 BBQ restaurants in the state of Texas.
In 2025, 319 BBQ restaurants were visited.
Texas Monthly
Sean
In 2010 after 7 years without a mascot, the Ole Miss Rebels held a vote on who or what should be their next mascot. Surprisingly this Star Wars character was proposed.
Admiral Ackbar
Mississippi - Tiquilla
If you plan to climb the Seven Summits, you'll have to travel to Alaska and climb this mountain.
Denali (Mount McKinley)
The name of this assassinated Archduke is shared with the name of this Scottish rock band known for the song "Do You Want To."
Franz Ferdinand