Famous People
Charles Blondin, the French tightrope walker made repeated crossings above what from 1859?
Niagara Falls.
This country first tried unsuccessfully to build the Panama Canal?
What is France
This silent film comedian was nicknamed the 'Great Stone Face'?
Who is Buster Keaton?
this famous book begins: "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff"?
What is The Little Engine That Could?
This planet weighs over twice as much as all the other known planets combined.
What is Jupiter?
This character, in a Shakespearean novel, is haunted by the ghost of his murdered father
Who is Hamlet
This President was the first to be televised?
Who is F.D.R.?
This director and master of suspense was noted for his cameo walk-ons in his own films?
Who is Alfred Hitchcock?
This classic gothic novel of 1818 was subtitled, The Modern Prometheus.
What is Mary Shelly's Frankenstein
This is what German scientist Wilhelm Roentgen named the invisible rays he discovered
What are X-Rays?
This is what singer Sammy Davis Jr. die of in 1990?
what is Throat Cancer
This famous family ruled Florence for three centuries from 1434?
Who are the Medici?
This 1971 film won Jane Fonda the first of her Oscars?
What is Klute?
This was the first published Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
What is "A Study In Scarlet"
In mathematics, this is the meaning of the term googol.
What is the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes.
Peanuts cartoon strip was his most famous creation?
Who is Charles Schulz?
This French revolutionary was nicknamed "the Incorruptible"?
Who is Robespierre?
This song holds the record for the biggest leap to the number one position on Billboard's Hot 100 chart?
What is The Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love." On March 28,1964, it entered the chart at number 37, the next week, it was number 1.
In the Little Orphan Annie comic strip, he was the name of Daddy Warbucks's Giant bodyguard who wore a turban?
Punjab
This reply did newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst receive when he sent a telegram to a leading astronomer asking "Is there life on Mars? Please cable in thousand words"?
"Nobody Knows" repeated 500 times
Tony Blair was the last Prime Minister of the 20th century in this country.
What is Great Britain?
This is something both Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon have in common.
They were both Quakers
In the USA this was the first prime time cartoon show.
What is The Flintstones?
This famous Opera composed by Giacomo Puccini was based on a novel about young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris
What is La Boheme?
This was the original purpose of ENIAC, the world's first "modern" computer?
What is to compute ballistic trajectories for artillery shells. ENIAC--an acronym for Electronic numerical integrator and Calculator --was introduced in 1946.