The Electoral Process
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Science & Nature
Everything English
Halloween Trivia
Miscellaneous
100
Federal general Election Day falls on this day of the week.
What is Tuesday?
100
The American city known as "Motor City".
What is Detroit?
100
In this upright-swimming fish, the male carries developing young in a brood pouch and gives birth.
What is a seahorse?
100
The Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge stand beside this river.
What is the River Thames?
100
In familiar werewolf lore, a bullet made of this precious metal is needed to kill the creature.
What is silver?
100
Contestants are invited to "come on down!" on this game show that debuted in November 1956.
What is "The Price is Right"?
200
An outgoing officeholder serving after a successor has been chosen to replace them is commonly called this two-word term.
What is a lame duck?
200
On many small airplanes, this spinning set of blades provides forward thrust.
What is the propellor?
200
This term describes trees that shed their leaves seasonally, such as maples and oaks.
What is deciduous?
200
Also called the "Union Flag", the UK's national flag has this familiar nickname.
What is "Union Jack"?
200
Children carrying little orange boxes at Halloween traditionally raised money for this United Nations children's organization.
What is UNICEF?
200
The "Hoosier State".
What is Indiana?
300
The name of the location where you cast your ballot in-person on Election Day.
What is a polling place?
300
Nicknamed "Tin Lizzy", this automobile model debuted in 1908.
What is the (Ford) Model-T?
300
This major rock category forms when magma or lava cools and solidifies.
What is igneous rock?
300
This palace has served as the British monarch's official London residence since 1837.
What is Buckingham Palace?
300
This author published Frankenstein anonymously on January 1st 1818.
Who is Mary Shelley?
300
A horse earns a Triple Crown distinction by finishing 1st in the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and this famous horserace.
What are the Belmont Stakes?
400
200 points each:
A full term in the US House of Representatives lasts this many years.
A full term in the US Senate lasts this many years.
What is two (2) years? (House)
What is six (6) years? (Senate)
400
This U.S. intercity passenger railroad began operations on May 1st, 1971.
What is the Amtrak?
400
The eastern North American population of this orange-and-black butterfly spends the winter in central Mexico.
What is the monarch butterfly?
400
This famous British fictional character shared rooms at 221B Baker Street.
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
400
In this 1960s television comedy, the witch Samantha is married to an advertising executive named Darrin.
What is Bewitched?
400
This American illustrator painted The Runaway as a 1958 cover for the Saturday Evening Post.
Who is Norman Rockwell?
500
At this party-run nominating meeting, participants gather locally to support presidential candidates.
What is a caucus?
500
This aviator became the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
500
Kangaroos and opossums belong to this mammal group, whose young typically develop in a pouch.
What are marsupials?
500
The capital of Scotland.
What is Edinburgh?
500
In Edgar Allen Poe's poem, the raven repeatedly says this one word.
What is "Nevermore"?
500
Samuel Langhorne Clemens's nom de plume.
Who is Mark Twain?
600
This President was elected unanimously by the Electoral College twice.
Who is George Washington?
600
Introduced in late 1927, this Ford model replaced the model-T.
What is the Model-A?
600
This bending of light makes a pencil partially submerged in water to appear crooked.
What is refraction?
600
This British public holiday traditionally falls the day after Christmas.
What is Boxing Day?
600
In Ireland, these root vegetables were carved into ghostly lanterns before pumpkins became common.
What are turnips?
(Also accept: Beets, Potatoes)
600
This Civil War relief worker founded the American Red Cross in 1881.
Who is Clara Barton?
700
Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party campaign in 1912 became associated with this animal-based nickname.
What is the Bull Moose party?
700
This classic American 2-seat sports car was introduced in 1953.
What is the Chevrolet Corvette?
700
An octopus has this many hearts.
What is three (3)?
700
This sport takes its name from the English school associated with its development.
What is rugby?
(Founded in 1567)
700
In Scotland, this term describes the Halloween custom of going door to door in costume and performing a short trick, poem, etc. in exchange for treats.
What is "guising"?
700
This president's administration acquired the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. (~$350 million today).
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
800
The Constitution sets this minimum age for service in the US Senate.
What is thirty (30)?
800
When a car turns, this gear mechanism allows the inner and outer drive wheels to rotate at different speeds.
What is the differential?
800
This tree species produces the world's tallest living trees, capable of growing over 350 feet! [two words]
What is the coast redwood?
(World Record => 380.1 feet Hyperion in Humboldt County, California)
800
According to Tower of London legend, the fortress (and kingdom) will fall if these birds leave.
What are ravens?
800
This actress played Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.
Who is Janet Leigh?
800
This Japanese art art repairs broken ceramics with lacquer and powdered gold, highlighting the cracks.
What is "kintsugi"?
900
For the 2024 and 2028 Presidential elections, Maryland has this many electoral votes.
What is ten (10)?
900
In 1947, this American test pilot broke the sound barrier in the Bell X-1.
Who is Chuck Yeager?
900
Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons are called these.
What are isotopes?
900
Bonfire Night commemorates the Gunpowder Plot on this date.
What is November 5th?
900
This famous "artist", died on Halloween in 1926.
Who is Harry Houdini?
900
This Atlantic sea is defined by ocean currents rather than land boundaries.
What is the Sargasso Sea?
1000
This suffrage leader was arrested after voting in Rochester, New York, in the 1872 presidential election.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
1000
The year of Orville and Wilbur Wright's first successful powered airplane flights.
What is 1903?
1000
1 mole = 6.022x1023. Or, better known as...
What is Avogadro's number?
1000
The Great Fire of London destroyed approximately 80-85% of the city in this year.
What is 1666?
1000
This superstitious schoolmaster is the central character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow".
Who is Ichabod Crane?
1000
In the valley of the Tuul River, this city serves as the capital of Mongolia.
What is Ulaanbaatar?