“That’s a Real Place?” (Surprising or obscure locations around the world)
This U.S. state is home to a town called Intercourse.
What is Pennsylvania?
$100 – Mitochondria are famously known as the ______ of the cell.
What is the powerhouse?
$100 – This streaming service dropped “House of Cards” and changed TV forever.
What is Netflix?
$100 – The reason onions make you cry involves this body part trying to flush out irritants.
What are the tear ducts?
$100 – This school’s mascot is a tree. Yes, just a tree.
What is Stanford?
The country of Tuvalu earns much of its revenue from leasing out this part of its digital identity.
What is its .tv domain?
$200 – In Econ 101, this term describes a market with only one seller.
What is a monopoly?
$200 – “Heisenberg” was the alter ego of this character who knocked.
Who is Walter White?
$200 – This gas fills most party balloons, because unlike hydrogen, it won’t explode.
What is helium?
$200 – This blue bull belongs to a school known for basketball dominance.
What is Duke (Blue Devil)?
This Bolivian salt flat is so reflective it’s used to calibrate satellites.
What is Salar de Uyuni?
$300 – In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, this character is killed offstage, but her sleepwalking is unforgettable.
Who is Lady Macbeth?
$300 – Taylor Swift re-recorded her albums to regain control of these.
What are master recordings (or masters)?
$300 – This kitchen appliance uses microwaves to excite this molecule, heating food.
What is water?
$300 – Art the Dart was the unofficial and wildly unpopular mascot of this Ivy League school.
What is Dartmouth?
$400 – This Nordic capital has saunas in buses, ferries, and Burger Kings.
What is Helsinki?
$400 – In Psych 101, this famous study involved participants delivering what they thought were fatal shocks.
What is the Milgram experiment?
$400 – Jordan Peele’s Get Out popularized the term for the unsettling combination of racism and hospitality.
What is liberal racism / microaggressions / the Sunken Place? (any would work)
$400 – The bubbles in soda are mostly this gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
$400 – The Fighting Okra represents this southern school’s unofficial alter ego.
What is Delta State University?
$500 – Tristan da Cunha is the world’s most remote inhabited island, located in this ocean.
What is the South Atlantic Ocean?
$500 – In Art History, this painting movement was marked by blurry lines, visible brushstrokes, and outdoor scenes.
What is Impressionism?
$500 – The Marvel multiverse references this physics concept from quantum theory that particles can exist in many states at once.
What is superposition?
$500 – This force, discovered by a German mathematician, explains how your coffee stays in the mug during a sharp turn.
What is centrifugal force?
$500 – This school once let a live cougar loose on the field in the 1920s.
What is the University of Houston?