Math
Binary number systems, often found in computer programming, use only these two digits.
What are 0 and 1?
Noted for her elegance and style, this Vassar grad became a widow on November 22, 1963. She became a widow a second time on March 15, 1975.
Who is Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis?
This country has three capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein. (bloom-fon-tayn)
What is South Africa?
Clara Barton founded this organization in 1881 after initially learning of a similar group founded in Geneva, Switzerland in 1863.
What is the American Red Cross?
This stew is made with shellfish stock, meat, a dark roux and the holy trinity of veggies is often served over rice and is the official state dish of Louisiana.
What is Gumbo?
The first vaccine for this disease, also known as pertussis, was licensed in 1914.
What is Whooping cough?
This Beatle wrote and sang lead vocals on their single "While My Guitar Gently Weeps".
Who is George Harrison?
The Dead Rabbits were a 19th-century Irish-American street gang based in this U.S. city. They were the sworn mortal enemies of the Bowery Boys.
What is NYC?
**According to legend, one of the most feared Dead Rabbits was a woman named "Hell-Cat Maggie, who filed her teeth to points and wore brass fingernails during gang fights.
Star Wars villain Darth Vader was voiced by James Earl Jones, but this actor/director was considered for the voice role, after his groundbreaking War of the Worlds radio broadcast 40 years earlier.
Who is Orson Welles?
This kind of angle measures between 91 degrees and 180 degrees.
What is obtuse?
This first First Lady was widowed at age 26, when her first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, died in 1757
Who is Martha Washington?
This Latin American capital city was built by the Spanish on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the old Aztec capital.
What is Mexico City?
Founded by Danny Thomas in 1962 and named for the patron saint of lost causes, this research hospital is located in Memphis TN strives to find cures and prevention for catastrophic childhood diseases.
What is St Jude's (children's research hospital)?
What is New Year's Day?
Historically called canine madness, this is a fatal viral disease that attacks the central nervous system. Spread primarily through the saliva of an infected animal via bites or scratches, it is 100% preventable through routine vaccination but is universally fatal once clinical symptoms appear.
What is Rabies?
Yarrow, Stookey, and Travers are the lesser known last names of this trio
Who are Peter, Paul and Mary?
This gangster once kidnapped jazz pianist Fats Waller at gunpoint and made him perform at his birthday party.
Who is Al Capone?
This mustachioed villain is the bad guy in the Dudley Do-Right cartoons.
Who is Snidely Whiplash?
This branch of mathematics gets its name from an Arabic word meaning “reunion of broken parts.”
What is Algebra?
This actress became a widow at age 26, when her third husband, Mike Todd, died in a plane crash a year after they married.
Who is Elizabeth Taylor?
Casablanca and Marrakech are better known by many travelers to this country, but Rabat is the capital.
What is Morocco?
Headquartered in Americus, GA, this 501c3 works to help build and improve homes for families of low-income or disadvantaged backgrounds.
What is Habitat for Humanity?
This porridge is made by boiling ground corn and then adding milk, salt, water and butter. Add sugar for a tasty breakfast, or cheese to make a side for your shrimp.
What are grits?
This bacterial infectious disease is commonly referred to as “lockjaw”
What is tetanus?
This band, lead by (anagrammed) Mr Mojo Risin, was the first to use a billboard to announce a new album release
Who are The Doors?
Often called "the man who invented Las Vegas," this gangster hobnobbed with movie stars and oversaw the development of the Flamingo Casino.
Who is Bugsy Siegel?
Preferring independence, this First Lady frequently traveled without Secret Service details and famously carried a .22 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver. At age 72, she legally obtained a concealed-carry permit in New York
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
This value represents the sum of the first five prime numbers.
What is 28?
This American journalist lost her first husband, Jay Monahan, to colon cancer in 1998. Following his death, she had a colonoscopy live on air in March 2000.
Who is Katie Couric?
This city is the world’s northernmost capital of a sovereign state, sitting at about 64° north latitude.
What is Reykjavik, Iceland?
This nonprofit was founded by Chef José Andrés in 2010 after an earthquake devastated Haiti. It acts as first responders to provide hot meals in the wake of humanitarian, climate, and community crises.
What is World Central Kitchen?
Made from this pig organ, a food called "chitterlings" or "chit-lins" is commonly served as a part of a soul food meal.
What are intestines?
On May 8, 1980, the World Health Organization officially declared that "the world and all its peoples have won freedom from" this deadly infectious disease
What is Smallpox?
When the Kingsmen recorded this song in 1963, it wasn't meant to be quite such an unintelligible mess. They thought the were using their rehearsal time in the studio, but it turns out that was their actual recording time.
Wat is Louie, Louie?
Arnold Rothstein was an American criminal and allegedly the mastermind behind the bribery in the Black Sox baseball scandal, which involved the Chicago White Sox, who were playing against this team in the 1919 World Series.
Who are the Cincinnati Reds?
People Magazine has featured their "Sexiest Man Alive" since 1985, when this man graced the cover; never mind his fall from grace 21 years later with a drunken anti-semitic rant.
Who is Mel Gibson?
In 2014, Benedict Cumberbatch played this famous mathematician and computer scientist, highlighting how his team cracked the German Enigma Cold during WWII.
Who is Alan Turing?
At 101, Helen Viola Jackson passed Dec. 16, 2020; the last known widow of the veterans of this war.
What is the US Civil War?
This capital of Bolivia is the capital with the highest elevation, sitting between about 3,250 and 4,100 meters above sea level.
What is La Paz?
This non profitable international medical humanitarian organization was created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971, providing emergency aid to people affected by wars, epidemics, famine, natural disasters and man-made disasters.
What is Doctors without Borders?
This dish, also known as Carolina peas and rice, is a simple dish composed of sliced bacon, rice, black-eyed peas and onions.
What is Hoppin' John?
The Antonine Plague, also known as the Plague of Galen, was an ancient pandemic that devastated this dominating civilization from 165-180 CE . It is believed to have been an early outbreak of smallpox
What is the Roman Empire?
This musician holds the rare distinction of being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times (as a solo artist, with the Yardbirds, and with Cream)
Who is Eric Clapton?
This American crime syndicate was founded by Louis Buchalter in the 1930s to threaten, maim, or murder designated victims for a price, and its services were available to any syndicate member in the country.
What is Murder Inc.?
This type of thread-like fungus, found in soil, has recently been measured by scientists, and could stretch from Earth to sun more than a billion times, if laid end-to-end.
What is mycelium?