Geography
This U.S. state, known for its desert climate, is the driest in the country based on annual rainfall.
What is Nevada?
(50 Points for Arizona)
This pop star was known as the “Queen of Pop” and shocked audiences with hits like “Like a Virgin” and “Material Girl.”
Who is Madonna?
This is the energy an object has because it’s moving.
What is kinetic energy?
He was the first President of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
In this classic arcade game, a frog must dodge cars and cross a river to get home safely.
What is Frogger?
This river is the longest in the United States, flowing over 2,300 miles from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
In this hit 1985 movie, Marty McFly travels through time in a DeLorean.
What is Back to the Future?
This green pigment helps plants absorb sunlight for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
This famous document, signed in 1776, declared America’s independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independance?
This barrel-throwing gorilla tried to stop Mario from rescuing the princess.
What is Donkey Kong?
This U.S. state is home to the geographic center of North America and also touches the Canadian border.
What is North Dakota?
This arcade game character gobbled dots and ran from ghosts in a maze.
What is Pac-Man
This process in the water cycle turns liquid water into vapor.
What is evaporation?
This U.S. President led the country during the Civil War and gave the Gettysburg Address.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
In this 1980s game, you fire from the bottom of the screen to stop descending aliens.
What is Space Invaders?
This evergreen tree is the state tree of Washington and shares its name with a poisonous plant.
(100 Points if you can name Cardinal Direction in name)
What is the Western Hemlock?
This hair metal band rocked the charts with “Livin’ on a Prayer” in 1986.
Who is Bon Jovi?
This process allows plants to make their own food using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water.
What is photosynthesis?
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from this European country.
What is France?
This game had players rotate and blast away colorful shapes while standing in a geometric space.
What is Tempest?
These 2 U.S. States start with the letter 'V'.
What is Virginia & Vermont
This TV show featured four older women living together in Miami, with names like Rose, Blanche, and Dorothy.
What is The Golden Girls?
This science term, starting with “xeno,” refers to foreign crystals that form within a different type of rock — often trapped during magma cooling.
What is a xenocryst/xenomorphic?
This U.S. purchase from France in 1803 doubled the size of the country.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This 1983 arcade game, inspired by a movie, let players control a tank inside a glowing digital world — and was one of the first to use 3D vector graphics.
What is Discs of Tron?