Animals
Though untrue, what African bird is said to bury its head in the sand when frightened?
Ostrich
Among the world's smallest countries, San Marino and Vatican City are both entirely surrounded by what other nation?
Italy
What New England landmark near where the Pilgrims landed has the year "1620" carved into it?
Plymouth Rock
What is the man holding in Grant Wood's iconic painting American Gothic?
A pitchfork
What fictional land does Lucy Pevensie discover in the rear of a wardrobe in C.S. Lewis's fantasy novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
Narnia
Where on the body would one wear a cloche?
Hat
In Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, what was the occupation of the seven dwarves?
Mining
Taylor Swift's hit "Love Story" references what Shakespeare play?
Romeo and Juliet
The infamous Jack the Ripper roamed the streets of what city?
London
Kamadeva, who shoots flower arrows from his bow, is the Hindu god of what?
Love
What constellation is sometimes referred to as 'the Archer'?
Sagitarrius
What is it called when someone tackles the quarterback who has the ball, behind the line of scrimmage?
Sack
What was Donald Trump's catchphrase on the American version of The Apprentice?
"You're fired"
The Iditarod Dog Sled race has taken place annually in what U.S. state?
Alaska
Toronto and Ottawa are located in what Canadian province?
Ontario
What U.S. state is called the "Mother of Presidents," as 8 U.S. Presidents have been born there?
Virginia
What Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece depicts an evening view of the sky in the village of Saint-Remy-de-Provence?
Starry Night
A bureaucratic conundrum is the meaning of the title of what 1961 novel by Joseph Heller?
Catch-22
The name of what German car brand translates to "people's car?"
Volkswagen
What iconic object is discovered at the end of 1968's Planet of the Apes, causing the protagonist to lament, "You maniacs! You blew it up!"?
The Statue of Liberty
What band's hit songs include "You Give Love a Bad Name," and "Wanted Dead or Alive"?
Bon Jovi
What nickname was given to Nadya Suleman, the southern California woman who gave birth to eight babies in January 2009?
Octomom
Nike was known to the Greeks as the winged goddess of what?
Victory
Apiology is the study of what?
Bees
Major League Baseball's great Babe Ruth, appeared in his most World Series with which team?
New York Yankees
What cartoon character used supplies from Acme Corporation to attempt to catch a beepingly fast creature?
Wile E. Coyote
On what Greek island did the Minoan civilization thrive?
Minoan
What series of conflicts were fought between the houses of York and Lancaster during the 15th century for control of the English throne?
Wars of the Roses
In what city does The Phantom of the Opera take place?
Paris
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front takes place during what war?
World War I
Spinach consumption rose by over 30% during the 1930s following the introduction of what character?
Popeye
Which actor played Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator and John Nash in A Beautiful Mind?
Russell Crowe
What is the last name of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice, as well as their younger brother Andy, that rose to fame following the release of Saturday Night Fever?
The coronation of British monarchs is overseen by the Archbishop of what city?
Canterbury
What name was given to the documents discovered in desert caves near Jericho in 1947?
Dead Sea Scrolls
Which basic computer component are devices such as the keyboard, monitor, and printer classified under?
Hardware
Which NFL team plays their home games in Tampa Bay?
Buccaneers
What do contestants on "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" receive that lets them know they will be staying on the show for another round?
A rose
The eggs of a robin are generally what color?
Blue
In what British city would one find the Royal Observatory located at 0 degrees longitude?
What Austro-Hungarian royal begged for his wife to stay alive for their children in his dying words when he was shot in Sarajevo in 1914?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What Broadway musical tells the story of the group The Four Seasons?
Jersey Boys
Dmitri, Ivan and Alexei are what title Fyodor Dostoyevsky characters?
The Brothers Karamazov
What greenish-black traditional Chinese tea is the most popular tea type served in American Chinese restaurants?
Oolong
What actor portrayed night watchman Larry Daley in the Night at the Museum films?
Ben Stiller
Keith Moon, who died of a drug overdoes in 1978, was the drummer for what rock band?
The Who
Nevada's capital city is named for what famous American explorer?
Kit Carson
The Bible's shortest verse, "Jesus wept," recounts Jesus' reaction to the death of whom?
Lazarus
Pi, the mathematical constant equal to approximately 3.14159, is what kind of number, meaning it cannot be written as a simplified fraction?
Irrational
In what sport would you use an épée?
Fencing
Which television series finale in 1983 attracted the most viewers in the United States?
M*A*S*H
What is the name of the world's largest lizard located in and named for an Indonesian island?
Komodo Dragon
What U.S. state is directly east of Nevada and north of Arizona?
Utah
What Confederate General was the victim of friendly fire at the Battle of Chancellorsville?
"Cobber" and "Drongo" are twentieth-century slang terms used in what English-speaking nation?
Australia
What German novelist wrote the high-level fairy tales Steppenwolf and Siddhartha?
Hermann Hesse
What does a cooper make?
Barrels
"A mother. A daughter. Three possible fathers. Take a trip down the aisle you'll never forget." is the tagline for which 2008 musical movie?
Mamma Mia!
What is the stage name of superstar George Alan O'Dowd?
Boy George
The first Pole to become Pope, Karol Wojtyla is more commonly known as whom?
Pope John Paul II
The Jewish calendar is primarily based on what celestial body?
What is the name given to species of animals or plants that are imported to a non-native environment and become dominant over native species?
Invasive species
Which National Football League quarterback was nicknamed "Broadway Joe"?
Joe Namath
Which actress played the role of Peg Bundy on the show Married...with Children?
Katey Sagal
What breed of dog is ironically named for the largest state of Mexico?
Near Pittsburgh, the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers merge to form what other major U.S. river?
Guy Fawkes, John Brown, Walter Raleigh and Alfred Dreyfus all share the distinction of having been executed for what crime?
Treason
Twm Sion Cati is a folk hero similar to Robin Hood from what U.K. constituency?
Wales
A dead albatross hangs around the neck of the title character of what Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Leo the Lion is the mascot of what company?
MGM
Frank Sinatra won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in what 1953 film set during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
From Here to Eternity
What was the title of the 1984 hit from Germany by Nena that reached number 2 on the U.S. Charts?
"99 Luftballoons"
Born in 1899, which actor, who played Rick Blaine and Charlie Allnut, appeared in an early 1900s advertising campaign when he was a baby?
Humphrey Bogart
How many "folds" are represented by the Buddhist Dharma Wheel?
Eight
What British chemist is credited with the discovery of oxygen?
Joseph Priestley?
Which of golf's four Grand Slam tournaments is played at the same course each year?
What 12-episode classic British comedy starring John Cleese took place at a hotel?
Fawlty Towers
What is the name for a breed of both dogs and ponies named for an island group off the coast of Scotland?
Shetland
Goat Island is located within what North American natural wonder?
Niagara Falls
What was the name of the grand-nephew of Julius Caesar that became Rome's first emperor?
Augustus
What art medium was the early 20th century artist Louis Comfort Tiffany best known for?
Stained glass
Willie Stark, the central character of All the King's Men, was loosely based on what Louisiana governor?
Huey Long
A gnomon is a part of what obsolete device?
A sundial
The 2000 Claymation film Chicken Run is loosely based on what 1963 Steve McQueen war film?
The Great Escape
What hit featuring the line "There's always gonna be another mountain" was first performed by Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana: The Movie?
"The Climb"
What Gangsta Rap pioneer has a recurring role on Law & Order: SVU?
Ice-T
Reverend Sun Myung Moon was the founder and leader of which church?
Unitarianism
Launched in 1973, what was the name of the first space station owned and operated by NASA?
Skylab
What is the name of the Norwegian figure skater who won Gold in the 1928, 1932, and 1936 Winter Olympics?
Sonja Henie
What was the first network in the United States to have 24 hours news?
CNN
A dik-dik is a variety of what African ungulate?
Antelope
What nation, called the "Land of the Blue Sky," is the world's least-densely populated and has its capital at Ulan Bator?
Mongolia
Joseph Stalin aspired to be what profession when he discovered Marxism and chose a different career path?
A priest
Peter Paul Reubens' Assumption of the Virgin is an example of what art movement?
Baroque
In a novel by Baroness Orczy, what pseudonym does the hero acquire from a flower?
The Scarlet Pimpernel
What term meaning "really old" means "occurring before the Biblical flood?"
Antediluvian
What actor portrayed the undercover spy Harry Trasker in the 1994 film True Lies?
Arnold Schwarzenegger
What "tasty" entertainer was born in 1890s New Orleans and was known for his blues and ragtime works?
Jelly Roll Morton
What Saturday Night Live regular was murdered by his wife who subsequently killed herself?
Phil Hartman
What was the name of the Hittite warrior that King David orchestrated the murder of in order to take his wife, Bathsheba?
Uriah
What whip-like structures aid the mobility of many microbes?
Flagella
What world-famous team was formed by Abe Saperstein in 1926, and have since played in over 90 countries?
Harlem Globetrotters
What actor portrayed the woman-loving, semi-alcoholic Dr. Doug Ross on the drama series E.R.?
George Clooney
What is a female leopard called?
Leopardess
What is the only U.S. state that borders more than one ocean?
Alaska
What "fiery" term is given to General William Sherman's campaign of burning everything in his path on his March to the Sea during the U.S. Civil War?
Scorched earth
What is the odd one out of crimson, ruddy, rubescent and viridian?
Viridian (it's green, the others are red)
What American female crime writer wrote the novels Point of Origin, Black Notice and The Body Farm?
Patricia Cornwell
Alternatively named Christmas Star, what flower was named by the United States' first ambassador to Mexico?
Poinsettia
What was the name of Roy Rogers' German Shepherd that starred alongside him in over 100 films?
What male singer that recorded a cover of "Putting on the Ritz" in 1982 shares the same name as a food dish?
Taco
What actor famously married Brad Altman in 2008 during a short window when gay marriage was legal in California before the legislation was overturned?
George Takei
According to Chapter 2 of the Book of Isaiah, the nations "shall beat their swords" into what?
Ploughshares
What name is given to the technique of growing only one type of crop in a field?
Monoculture
Which country's international Rugby Union team are called the Springboks?
South Africa
The Deadliest Catch follows the crab-fishing industry in what sea?
The Bering Sea
What kind of animal was Harriet, who famously passed away in 2006 at the age of 175 years old?
Tortoise
As well as the highest performing in its country, what is the name of the oldest university in Germany?
University of Heidelburg
What two world leaders, one Egyptian and one Israeli, signed the Camp David Accords in 1979, leading to peace between the two nations?
Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin
Reportedly inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the ancient Greek philosophical statement "Gnothi Seauton" translates to what?
"Know Thyself"
What kind of animal was Tarka who battles the tyrannical dog Deadlock in a 1927 story by Henry Williamson?
Otter
What "O" is also called a number sign, hashtag, or pound?
Octothorpe
What is the title of the 1987 film starring L.D. Groban that ran for a staggering 87 hours, holding the world record for longest film?
The Cure for Insomnia
Rossini's opera "La Gazza Ladra" translates into English as what?
"The Thieving Magpie"
What aspiring actor dropped off a pair of eyeglasses at a Los Angeles condo on June 12, 1994, a night which turned out to be his last?
Ron Goldman
In Roman mythology, who was the goddess of the dawn?
Aurora
What is the only letter not found in the chemical symbols for the elements of the periodic table at the end of the twentieth century?
J
What famous baseball player once said, "Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?"
Yogi Berra
What specific type of phone booth is used as the mode of transportation for Doctor Who?
A police box
What was the name of the Portuguese Water Dog, whose name is his owner's initials, that resided at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from 2009 to 2017?
Bo
What is the only one of the four cardinal compass directions not found in the name of a U.S. state?
East
Nelson Mandela
What is the maximum number of spaces a king can move in one turn in a game of chess?
2 (castling)
A poem lamenting the loss of childhood ends with the line, "For the children, they mark, and the children, they know... The place where" what happens?
Where the Sidewalk Ends
What Latin phrase translates to "nourishing mother?"
Alma Mater
In the summer of 2007, 7-11 stores temporarily rebranded themselves as what in preparation for the release of The Simpsons Movie?
Kwik-E-Mart
What first name is shared by two Spice Girls?
Melanie
Who famously proclaimed, "We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles?"
Thomas Edison
The Latin terms superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira, and acedia are collectively known in English as what?
Seven Deadly Sins
A fair coin is flipped 3 times. What is the probability that the last flip came up heads?
1/2
The only Summer Olympic Games in which the United States did not win any medals took place in which year?
1980
Nanu Nanu. Before Mork and Mindy, Robin Williams portrayed the iconic character Mork in an episode of what other American sitcom?
Happy Days