Dinosaurs
MLK
YA Lit
Video Games
Miscellaneous
100

T. Rex is short for this full name, which means "tyrant lizard king" in Latin.  

What is Tyrannosaurus Rex?

100

MLK Day is always celebrated on this day of the week. 

What is Monday? (Specifically the third Monday of January each year.)

100

This book by S.E. Hinton is told in first-person narration by a character named Ponyboy Curtis, and follows the impact of gang conflict in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

What is the book The Outsiders?

100

This popular online game allows players to build their own virtual world. 

What is Roblox?

100

The ocean between North America and Europe.

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

200

This spiky, herbivorous dinosaur had a club-like tail that was used to smack enemies during dino fights. 

What is the stegosaurus?

200

The name of Dr. King's wife, who was also a renowned activist, author, and civil rights leader. 

Who was Coretta Scott King?

200

This YA manga series illustrated and written by Kazu Kibuishi follows the adventures of Emily Hayes, who falls into a new world when she discovers a mysterious amulet in her great-grandfather's house. 

What is the Amulet series?

200

The in-game currency in Roblox.

What are Robux?

200

The hottest planet in our solar system.

What is Venus?

300

The highest percentage of dinosaur fossils have been found on this continent. 

What is North America?

300

This person criticized Dr. King's ideas and took a much different approach to activism, but was also a very important leader in the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1900s. 

Who was Malcolm X?

300

The names of the two gangs in "The Outsiders."

What are the Socs and the Greasers?

300

This is what PUBG stands for. 

What is PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.

300

This pandemic swept through Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia during the Medieval Period. It particularly decimated the population of Europe.

What is the bubonic plague?

400

The "Age of the Dinosaurs" (aka the Mesozoic Era) is classified into these three geologic time periods. 

What are (in order) Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous?

400

Dr. King earned his B.A. in sociology at this HBCU. 

What is Morehouse College?

400

S.E. Hinton was this age when she began writing The Outsiders.

What is 15?

(And she was 17 when it was published!)

400

PUBG was inspired by this 2000 Japanese film. 

What is Battle Royale?

400

This French impressionist artist, who went blind later in life, is known for his paintings of water lilies.

Who was Claude Monet?

500

The first-ever fossilized Triceratops specimen was found in this American state in 1887. 

What is Colorado?

500

In March of 1955, after 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on a bus for a racist man, Dr. King helped organize a similar act of protest by this woman, thus sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott. 

Who was Rosa Parks?

500

Along with The Outsiders, this 1951 novel by J.D. Salinger (that follows the misadventures of a boy named Holden Caulfield) is considered among the earliest YA novels. 

What is The Catcher in the Rye?

500

Name Mx. Theo's favorite Zelda game!

What is Breath of the Wild? (This is actually the only Zelda game they have ever played...)

500

This river flows through London, England.

What is the Thames?