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The Willamette Valley is the agricultural heart of this "Beaver State" |
Oregon
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To visit the Museum of the Confederacy, you have to go to this Virginia capital |
Richmond
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If you have 2 dozen dolls & you sell 1/3 of them, you're left with this many |
16
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In 1969 Apollo 11 landed humans here for the first time ever |
the Moon
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Drake & Eminem were featured artists on "Loud", an album from this single-named singer |
Rihanna
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Sayonara means this in Tokyo; hey, we just got here |
goodbye
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Among the world's deepest, Nepal's Kali Gandaki River Valley lies between 2 26,000-foot peaks in this range |
the Himalayas
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This Paris museum is the most visited art museum in the world |
the Louvre
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Your class forms a leapfrog league with teams made up of 4 players each; with 28 kids in your class, there are this many teams |
7
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On Sept. 3, 1939 Great Britain & then France declared war on Germany, & this war was on |
World War II
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Steve Carell voiced "superbad superdad" Gru, a criminal mastermind-turned-family man in this animated pic |
Despicable Me
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People in Paris mainly use this word to say yes, yes, yes all the way home |
oui
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Trying to find the highest peak in this mountain system? The "trail" leads to Mount Mitchell in North Carolina |
(Skyler: What are the Smoky Mountains?)
the Appalachian Mountains
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In 2012 the Children's Museum of Indianapolis had an exhibit honoring this classic toy spud |
Mr. Potato Head
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Vacation has taken you to a country where it's 4 pesos to every dollar, so your $7.50 gets you this many pesos |
30 pesos
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In August 2008 the Summer Olympics took place in this Asian country |
(Shuli: What is Beijing?)
China
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Jamie, Adam & their team separate truth from urban legend on this Discovery Channel show |
MythBusters
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If you like your potato chips salzig in Salzburg, you like them this way |
salty
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The Valley of them was the burial site for most of the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt's New Kingdom |
the Kings
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What's called "The Oldest House Museum Complex" is located in this Florida city, the USA's oldest city |
(Shuli: What... is... Tampa?)
St. Augustine
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You've got $2,000 saved for that Ferrari; at 5.5% annual interest, you'll make this much towards your goal in one year |
$110
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The Gregorian one of these replaced the Julian one in 1582 & moved the date forward 10 days to catch things up |
a calendar
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She's tall & thin, she's blonde, she's a Best Country Solo Performance Grammy winner for her song "Mean" |
Taylor Swift
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"Buenas tardes" said our tour guide in Madrid; he meant this |
good afternoon
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Go ahead, build a house on Madera Volcano in Nicaragua--it's this word meaning "sleeping" |
dormant
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A hand-pulled hose cart is on display at the Orange County, New York museum of these professionals |
firefighters
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You can eat 2 pancakes in a minute & a half, so it'll take you this long to eat 8 |
6 minutes
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This khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, ruled much of Asia by the time he died in 1294 |
Kublai
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He's short & round, he's pink, he's the title video game character in his "Return to Dream Land" |
Kirby
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Beethoven put this Italian word for a brisk tempo on 3 of the 4 movements of his Fifth Symphony |
allegro
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