Movies/Film
This 1977 blockbuster was the first film to open in more than 1,000 theaters simultaneously, pioneering the modern 'wide release' strategy.
What is Star Wars
This 1803 land deal, roughly 828,000 square miles purchased from France, nearly doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This is the only mammal on Earth capable of true, sustained flight.
What is a bat
Often called 'the fear index,' this measures market expectations of near-term volatility in the S&P 500.
What is the VIX (CBOE Volatility Index)
A body part or a unit of measurement
What is a foot
Tom Hanks has won back-to-back Best Actor Oscars. Name either film.
What is Philadelphia (1993) or Forrest Gump (1994)
Who was the only U.S. president to be unanimously elected by the Electoral College twice?
Who is George Washington
This African animal has the highest blood pressure of any land animal, a biological necessity given its anatomy.
What is a giraffe
In 1602, this country established what historians consider the world's first publicly traded company.
What is the Netherlands (Dutch East India Company / VOC)
Correct/accurate or a direction
What is right
This is the only Lord of the Rings film that did NOT win Best Picture at the Oscars, despite being part of the same trilogy.
What is The Fellowship of the Ring & The Two Towers (either accepted)
This Supreme Court case of 1803 established the principle of judicial review, giving the Court power to strike down unconstitutional laws.
What is Marbury v. Madison
The mimic octopus, discovered in 1998, can impersonate multiple venomous species. Name any two animals it mimics.
What is a Lionfish, flatfish (sole), or sea snake- any two accepted
Mass-mailed unsolicited to consumers in 1958, this was the first modern credit card and is widely credited with launching consumer credit culture.
What is the BankAmericard (later became Visa)
A fruit spread or a difficult situation
What is a jam
Christopher Nolan shot the hallway fight scene in this 2010 blockbuster using a set that physically rotated 360 degrees, no CGI involved.
What is Inception
The 'XYZ Affair' of 1797 nearly pushed the U.S. into a full-scale war with this country, triggering the undeclared Quasi-War.
What is France
This country is home to the world's only population of wild pink river dolphins, the only place on Earth where jaguars and anacondas share the same ecosystem, and more bird species than all of Europe combined.
What is Brazil (Amazon Basin)
This 1872 scandal, involving inflated railroad construction contracts and congressional bribes, implicated Vice President Schuyler Colfax and nearly derailed Ulysses S. Grant's administration.
What is the Crédit Mobilier Scandal
A flat piece of wood or to be uninterested
The first MCU film to gross over $1 billion worldwide was not Iron Man or The Avengers, it was this somewhat surprising 2013 release.
What is Iron Man 3
This senator's 1954 downfall was televised nationally after attorney Joseph Welch asked, 'Have you no sense of decency?' Name the senator.
Who is Joseph McCarthy
This island nation, isolated in the Indian Ocean for 88 million years, is home to plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth, including a primate that navigates in complete darkness using echolocation, a trait almost unheard of in non-bat mammals.
What is Madagascar
This 2001 accounting scandal, involving mark-to-market manipulation and off-balance-sheet entities, directly led to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
What is Enron
Where cars are kept or a place for joggers/picnics