Thanksgiving
Geography
Elementary Science
Music
Miscellaneous
100
This pie flavor—made from orange squash—is a staple dessert.
What is pumpkin pie?
100
This U.S. state is the only one made up entirely of islands.
What is Hawai'i?
100
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
100
This pop icon is known as the “King of Pop” and performed the moonwalk.
Who is Michael Jackson?
100
This famous artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
200
This annual holiday event involves running or walking a 5K or 10K before the big meal.
What is a Turkey Trot?
200
This prehistoric landmark is found in England.
What is Stonehenge?
200
This group of animals includes frogs, toads, and salamanders, which live both in water and on land.
What are amphibians?
200
Sisters Mildred J. and Patty Hill, educators in Louisville, Kentucky, created the melody for "Good Morning to All" in 1893 as a simple greeting song for their kindergarten students. This popular tune originates from the sisters' greeting song.
What is "Happy Birthday to You"?
200
This term describes a word that is spelled the same forwards and backwards.
What is a palindrome?
300
Abraham Lincoln proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday during this war.
What is the Civil War?
300
Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest peak, is located in this country.
What is Tanzania?
300
Bones are held together by this type of tissue.
What is a ligament?
300
This genre of music originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s and is associated with artists like Bob Marley.
What is reggae?
300
On October 19, 2025 thieves stole eight pieces of French crown jewels in a daring heist at this world‑famous museum’s Galerie d’Apollon — the first art theft from the museum since 1998.
What is the Louvre Museum?
400
This character, the oldest continuously appearing balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, first debuted in 1934.
Who is Mickey Mouse?
400
This country has the most time zones, spanning 12 in total.
What is France?
With its overseas territories, France uses 12 different time zones (13 including its claim in Antarctica), more than any other country in the world.
400
This is the smallest particle of an element that still has the properties of that element.
What is an atom?
400
This term indicates gradually getting louder in music.
What is a crescendo?
400
This common computer port and storage device is known by the initials USB.
What is Universal Serial Bus?
500
This northeastern U.S. town claims to host the world’s oldest continuously celebrated Thanksgiving observance, dating back to the 1700s.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
500
This desert, the largest in Asia, covers parts of China and Mongolia and is known for its shifting sand dunes.
What is the Gobi Desert?
500
Rocks that are formed from cooled lava are called this.
What are igneous rocks?
500
This instrument is a long-necked, plucked string instrument, similar to a lute, that is most famously associated with North Indian classical music.
What is a sitar?
500
This island nation became the first in the world to eliminate mother‑to‑child transmission of HIV, syphilis, and hepatitis B in 2025.
What is the Maldives?