Old Hollywood
This actress won an Oscar for "The Philadelphia Story" and was one of MGM's biggest stars in the 1930s–40s.
Who is Katharine Hepburn?
A flowering plant that completes its life cycle in one year.
What are annuals?
First published in 1935, this classic family game has players race through a sweet-themed board collecting treats.
What is Candy Land?
Winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for a novel about racial injustice in a Southern town.
Who is Harper Lee?
Rapid warming that melts river ice and sends large ice chunks downstream, blocking channels.
What is an ice jam?
Known for the phrase "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night," she starred in "All About Eve."
Who is Bette Davis?
The green pigment that captures light energy for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
This 1952 abstract strategy game uses interlocking plastic tiles to form patterns; it later inspired many tessellation-based modern games.
What is Blokus?
What is "The Old Man and the Sea"?
Coastal hazard where spring storm surges and high tides combine to push seawater inland, eroding beaches and flooding low-lying areas.
What is coastal flooding?
This actor played Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind."
Who is Clark Gable?
The carbohydrate produced by photosynthesis that is the primary transport sugar in most plants.
What is sucrose?
Introduced in the 1940s and refined in the 1950s, this tile-placement game has players create a continuous trail of matching suits.
What is Dominoes?
1931, 1937, and 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner known for New England rural life.
Robert Frost
The most costly flood in the history of the USA.
What were the floods following Hurricane Katrina?
This actor was known for tough-guy roles, starred in "The Maltese Falcon" and "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
Who is Humphrey Bogart?
The evolutionary process where unrelated plants evolve similar traits due to similar environments.
What is convergent evolution?
Bluffing deduction game where players hold hidden roles and try to eliminate the opposing team through accusation and voting.
(What is Werewolf / Mafia?)
Won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for a two-volume life of Abraham Lincoln.
Who is Carl Sandburg?
When groundwater levels drop significantly in spring and weaken foundations, causing homes to tilt or sink.
What is spring-induced subsidence?
Swedish-born actress nicknamed "The Divine," she starred in Anna Christie and The Grand Hotel and famously retired from Hollywood at the height of her fame.
Who is Greta Garbo?
The type of leaf arrangement where two leaves emerge at the same node on opposite sides.
What is opposite phyllotaxy?
A social word-guessing party game where one teammate gives a one-word clue to prompt multiple correct guesses.
What is Codenames?
Awarded the 1943 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Dragon's Teeth."
Who is Upton Sinclair?
Combination of saturated soils and earthquakes in spring can cause soil to behave like a liquid, undermining structures.
What is liquefaction?