Non-Fiction
This 1974 best-selling non-fiction book chronicled the Watergate scandal and was co-written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
What is All The President's Men?
The stars of this country music love story stayed together their whole lives (meeting in 1956, marrying in 1968) and died within just four months of each other. It’s clear that this love was true - when once asked for his definition of paradise, Mr. stated plainly, “this morning, with her, having coffee.”
Who are June Carter and Johnny Cash?
This active stratovolcano is located in Skamania County, Washington. It lost 1,131 feet of elevation in the May 1980 eruption and spewed forth about one cubic mile of dust, ash, and debris.
What is Mt St Helens?
Adjusted for inflation, this would be the highest grossing film of all time, but movie tickets in 1939 only cost about a quarter. It had more ticket sales than any other; about 200 million wanted to see what was happening in the life of Scarlett O'Hara.
What is Gone With the Wind?
This bank was founded on March 18, 1852, to provide express mail delivery and banking services during the California Gold Rush. In 2016, they admitted that their employees had opened as many as 3.5 million accounts without customer authorization over a five-year period.
What is Wells Fargo?
Bananas are high in this element, a chemical that helps in healthy brain function. You can get even more of it from wild-caught salmon and beet greens.
What is potassium?
The baseball field in this city was named for a swamp called the Back Bay Fens, an an urban park and wetland area designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
What is Boston?
It is rumored that this artist's songs Jolene and I Will Always Love You were written on the same day. While she can't confirm they were recorded on the same day, they did appear one after the other on her songwriting cassette.
Who is Dolly Parton?
Quick breads, such as cornbread or banana bread are made without this ingredient, opting instead for chemical leaveners.
What is yeast?
Writer and mountaineer John Krakauer is known for books including Into the Wild, Under the Banner of Heaven and Into Thin Air, about his own ill-fated attempt to climb this peak.
What is Mt Everest?
Abigail Smith married this Founding Father at age 20, gave birth to five children and was his confidante, political advisor, and First Lady. The more than 1,000 letters they wrote to each other offer a window into their mutual devotion and abiding friendship.
Who is John Adams?
In March 2022, Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill making this racket game the official sport of Washington state.
What is Pickleball?
He starred as Captain Jack Sparrow in the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean franchise from 2003-2017
Who is Johnny Depp?
In 1919, this Italian immigrant living in Boston came up with an illegal fraud scheme where a con artist uses money from new investors to pay fake high returns to older investors, pretending there is a real business.
Who is Charles Ponzi?
This protein in wheat flour that gives bread elasticity and traps carbon dioxide to help bread rise. In Wisconsin, there used to exist a restaurant for people sensitive to this protein called The Silly Yak.
What is Gluten?
The longest officially recorded home run in MLB history is a 575-foot blast by this Yankee on July 18, 1921, at Navin Field in Detroit.
Who is Babe Ruth?
Before becoming a big hit for Chris Stapleton in 2015, this homage to a type of liquor was previously recorded by David Allan Coe and George Jones.
What is Tennessee Whiskey?
As host of the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson famously ended his monologues by pretending to do this.
What is Swing a golf club?
"The Immortal Life of" this woman, a book written by by Rebecca Skloot, tells the true story of a poor Black tobacco farmer whose cervical cancer cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951. Her cells were used for massive medical breakthroughs while her family continued to struggle in poverty.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
The Mughal Emperor loved his wife so deeply that her death in 1631 broke his heart. He built this mausoleum as a stunning, eternal tomb and tribute to her memory.
This town in Washington is sometimes called "the town so nice they named it twice." Its also the namesake for a variety of onions.
What is Walla Walla?
Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer (RIP King!), George Clooney and Christian Bale have all starred in blockbuster films about this superhero.
Who is Batman?
Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, it took this company months to find a solution for the barrels of oil spilling into the ocean.
What is BP? (British Petroleum)
The 4 basic tastes are categorized as sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. In the early 2000s, this was added as the 5th basic taste, sometimes called savory.
What is Umami?
As of 2026, he is the last President to throw out a ceremonial first pitch. It was in his first term and the pitch was high and outside, forcing catcher Ryan Zimmerman to lunge for the catch.
Who is Barack Obama?
This Glenn Campbell song from 1975 describes the struggles and dreams of a musician trying to make it in the industry, using the imagery of a cowboy in a rodeo to convey the idea of facing challenges head-on and striving for success despite the odds.
What is Rhinestone Cowboy?
This is the amount of time the miller's daughter was given to guess Rumplestiltskin's name.
What is 3 days?
In 1988 Robert Fulghum made sixteen observations about life in this book. His observations included:
1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
What is All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten?
When this Royal fell in love with American divorcée Wallis Simpson, it was an affair that threw Britain's monarch into a constitutional crisis. Due to strong opposition from the church and government over their marriage, he instead chose to abdicate the throne.
Who is Edward VIII?
Opened in 1907 in Seattle, this is one of the older continuously operated public farmers' markets in the United States
What is Pike's Place Market?
This filmmaker has directed 3 of the top ten highest grossing films of all time, including Avatar and Titanic.
Who is James Cameron?
Tim Cook, CEO of this tech company, issued an apology letter in 2017, admitted that software updates slowed down older phones (in hopes that this would get consumers to buy newer phones).
What is Apple?
Different from caramelization, this chemical process between amino acids and reducing sugars gives browned food its distinctive flavor. It requires a low dry heat.
What is a Maillard Reaction?
This position was adopted by the American League on January 1, 1973, but the National League did not adopt in until 2022. The first person to hold the position was Yankee Ron Blumberg.
What is the Designated Hitter?
This country music singer's father was a successful pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1975-1984. He has been married to fellow country singer Faith Hill since 1996
Who is Tim McGraw?
According to a famous Albert Einstein quote, “God does not" do this with the universe.
What is "Play dice"?
Samin Nosrat wrote this book, subtitled Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking, using these four cooking necessities to foster understanding in the "hows and whys" of cooking rather than blindly following strict recipes.
What is Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat?
These iconic 20th-century Mexican artists shared a stormy 25-year relationship involved a 1929 marriage, a 1939 divorce, and a 1940 remarriage. Their lives blended revolutionary politics, intense creative output, mutual infidelities, and profound artistic influence
Who are Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera?
This iconic Tacoma-born singer and actor got his famous nickname from the "shooting" sound he would make when playing Cops and Robbers as a child.
Knighted in New Zealand in 2010, this Kiwi paid his dues with some really weird stuff including Meet the Feebles and Heavenly Creatures before he was chosen to direct the Lord of the Rings trilogy that grossed $3 Billion.
Who is Peter Jackson?
Upton Sinclair's investigation and book The Jungle, exposed horrific sanitary conditions and worker abuse in the slaughterhouses of this city, prompting the federal Pure Food and Drug Act.
What is Chicago?
This scientist was the first zymologist and defined fermentation as "respiration without air".
Who is Louis Pasteur?
The Pennsylvania Reading Red Roses are famous for this uniform related first.
According to songwriter Dennis Lynde, this character in his song Queen of My Double Wide Trailer (who is referred to as the Charlie Daniels of the Torque Wrench) is also an abusive husband in his song sung by the Chicks (formerly the Dixie Chicks).
Who is Earl?
An unreliable narrator is defined as a storyteller whose credibility is compromised. This character from Nabokov's Lolita is considered the gold standard of unreliable narrators.
Who is Humbert Humbert?