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100

The first day of summer is in which month?

June

100

Which movie is widely considered to be the first summer blockbuster?



Jaws

100

What California island, notorious for other reasons, was occupied for over a year in 1969 and 1970 by activists associated with the American Indian Movement?

Alcatraz

100

One of the youthful finders of a golden ticket in Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was a "great big greedy nincompoop" 9-year-old from the fictional town of Dusselheim, Germany. Who was it?

Augustus Gloop

100

What is the school Mascot

Lakers

200

The last day of summer is in which month?

September

200

Which has more Vitamin C, the orange’s flesh or the orange’s peel?


The peel. 

Just one tablespoon of the outer rind contains 14% of the recommended daily dose of vitamin C, which is about three times more than what’s found in the inner flesh!

200

 Also the name of a 2014 movie which depicts the eruption, which city in present-day Italy was buried in a blanket of ash and pumice when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD?


Pompeii

200

Not signifying someone smart with Lincolns, but rather a sewer-dweller, what is the name of the dancing clown in Stephen King's famed horror novel "It?"

Pennywise

200

What are the school colors?

Blue and Orange

300

The summer solstice is the ________ day of the year.

longest

300

True or false: The first roller coaster in America opened on Coney Island.

True. The first roller coaster in America opened on Coney Island, in Brooklyn, New York in 1884.

300

Which government building became one of the first in Washington D.C. to become accessible after changes were made to accommodate Franklin Roosevelt’s wheelchair?

The White House

300

Two displaced migrant ranch workers are the dual protagonists of what 1937 novella with a title that starts with a preposition?

Of Mice and Men

300

What is the Zip Code for Mountain Lakes

07046

400

Which month was named after Julius Cesar?

July

400

Other than the brand’s name, what else can you see on the logo of the ice cream brand Klondike?

A polar bear

400

Although some individuals could vote earlier, which decade saw women and Native Americans given the right to vote throughout the US thanks to the adoption of the 19th Amendment and the Indian Citizenship Act?


The 1920's
400

What 1945 British novel depicting animalian life was often accompanied with the subtitle "A Contemporary Satire?"

Animal Farm

400

What year did Briarcliff open

1936

500

The country that consumes the most ice cream is ____, followed by Australia then Norway.

USA

500

The Independence Day holiday is celebrated in the United States on July 4th, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. What year did the USA gain its independence?

1776

500

The 600-mile-long plain between the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys was home to the city-state of Sumer, which was the first in a succession of what "M" civilizations?


Mesopotamia

500

What was the name of the snowy owl which Harry Potter received as an 11th birthday present from Hagrid?

Hedwig

500

Who was Herbert J. Hapgood?

A developer and entrepreneur who built many of the houses in ML