California
Beard Styles
Beer Styles
Chicago
Computers
100

A theme park located in Southern California (and also in Florida, Shanghai, and around the world), this "magic kingdom" is home to Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and more.  

What is Disney.

100

This U.S. president grew a beard (though not a mustache) shortly after winning the election, following a suggestion in a letter from an 11-year-old fan.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

This fictional brew is best enjoyed at Moe’s Tavern.

What is Duff?

100
The state that the city of Chicago is located in.

What is Illinois.

100

Internally, computers represent numbers using only these digits.

What are 1 and 0?

200

Home to the Golden Gate Bridge and Pier 39, this "City by the Bay" is known for its fog nicknamed Karl the Fog.

What is San Francisco.

200

Although the Army prohibits beards, it allows these to be worn, if well-groomed.

What are mustaches?

200

This beer style is believed to be named after the class of London workers who enjoyed it—perhaps including many longshoremen.

What is Porter?

200

This pharmacy store chain was founded in Chicago in 1901, has over eight thousand stores spread across all 50 states, and acquired NYC-based Duane Reade in 2010 for $1 billion. 

What is Walgreens.

200

To prove that you are not a computer program, take this test (whose namesake was played by Benedict Cumberbatch in a recent biopic).

What is the Turing Test?

300

The Major League Baseball team based in Oakland (and will be moving to Las Vegas).

What is the Oakland A's (Oakland Athletics).

300

In medieval art, Satan was often depicted wearing this animal-inspired style.

What is a goatee?

300

Originally formulated with extra hops (a preservative) in order to survive long voyages by sea, this style of beer is now enjoyed by Brooklyn hipsters.

What is India Pale Ale (IPA)?

300

This American singer, actress, and television personality from Chicago won the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony in 2022. She rose to fame in 2004 as a finalist on "American Idol" and stared in the Broadway musical "Dreamgirls" in 2006.

Who is Jennifer Hudson.

300

The Internet arose out of R&D funded by this U.S. government agency.

What is DARPA? (Also acceptable: ARPA, DoD).

400

Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant, and Wilt Chamberlain played for this San Francisco based basketball team 

What is the Golden State Warriors.

400

This was common among jazz musicians in the fifties and sixties, maybe because flutists did not like the feeling of metal against their skin.

What is a soul patch?

400

Under the German "Reinheitsgebot" or Beer Purity Law -- adopted in Bavaria in 1516 but struck down in 1987 as applied to imported beer, thanks to some litigious French brewers -- only these three ingredients may be used to brew beer.

What are water, barley, and hops?

400

Nicknamed the "Chairman of the Board" and later called "Ol' Blue Eyes," he is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the mid-20th century and sang that Chicago was his "kind of town."

Who is Frank Sinatra.

400

The iPhone, the Android, and the fictional computer system that runs Jurassic Park are all built on this four-lettered operating system.

What is UNIX?

500

This Southern California mission (also known as the "Jewel of the California Missions") is the home for swallows that spend most of the year there & winter in Argentina.

What is Mission San Juan Capistrano.

500

This style of facial hair, which leaves the chin bare, takes its name (though scrambled up) from this Union general in the Civil War who sported it. (Name both.)

What are sideburns, and who was Ambrose Burnside?

500

This modern country is where the earliest archeological evidence of beer produced from barley was found.

What is Iran?

500

Chicago is home to two international airports. What is one of the two airport codes/abbreviations.

MDW or ORD.

500

This British mathematician and inventor is credited as the “Father of the Computer,” because he built the first mechanical computer in the 1820s.

Who is Charles Babbage?