Caves
This type of cave formation hangs down from the ceiling, while its counterpart grows upward from the floor.
What are stalactites?
This cereal mascot has been shouting “They’re G-r-r-r-eat!” since the 1950s.
Who is Tony the Tiger?
According to tradition, this legendary city was founded by Romulus and Remus and eventually became the center of a vast empire.
What is Rome?
This sea lies between southern Europe and northern Africa and is connected to the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar.
What is the Mediterranean?
Who is Groucho Marx?
This Kentucky cave system is the longest known cave system in the world, with hundreds of miles of surveyed passages.
What is Mammoth Cave?
“Can you hear me now?” was repeatedly asked by an actor walking around various locations in commercials for this telecommunications company.
What is Verizon?
This Macedonian ruler created one of the largest empires of the ancient world before his death at just 32 years old.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This sea lies between Great Britain, Scandinavia and continental Europe and has long been an important route for shipping and fishing.
What is the North Sea?
This current house band on the Tonight Show is Sal's favorite band. In fact he has seen them live more than two times.
Who are The Roots?
Discovered in the 19th century in places such as Altamira in Spain, these prehistoric images of animals and hunting scenes are among humanity's earliest known works of art.
What are cave paintings?
“Plop, plop, fizz, fizz” was the memorable jingle for this fizzy remedy for indigestion.
What is Alka Seltzer?
This ancient Greek city-state was known for its military culture and famously trained male citizens as soldiers from a young age.
What is Sparta?
In one historical European interpretation of the “Seven Seas,” this sea bordering Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia and other countries was included among them.
What is the Baltic Sea?
Sal has frequently said this 2003 Bill Murray/Scarlett Johansson film set in Tokyo is his favorite movie. But he also said that about Weekend at Bernies
What is Lost in Translation?
In Homer's The Odyssey, Odysseus encounters the one-eyed Polyphemus in a cave after landing on an island that is traditionally identified as modern-day this
What is Sicily?
Created in 1933 for an advertising campaign, this fictional homemaker became associated with a brand of flour and eventually became one of the longest-running fictional advertising personalities in American history.
Who is Betty Crocker?
This city was the legendary home of the Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
What is Babylon?
This sea between Turkey and Ukraine is connected to the Mediterranean through the Bosporus, Sea of Marmara and Dardanelles.
What is the Black Sea?
This is Sal's favorite American city because it's the only one where playing a trombone in public does not get you pepper sprayed. Also he likes oysters.
What is New Orleans?
This cave in New Mexico is famous for its enormous underground chambers and thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats.
What is Carlsbad Caverns?
The 1984 Apple commercial directed by Ridley Scott introduced this computer to a mass television audience with imagery inspired by George Orwell.
What is the Macintosh?
This ancient library in Egypt became one of the most famous centers of learning in the ancient Mediterranean, though its exact destruction remains uncertain.
What is the Library of Alexandria?
Despite its watery name, this “sea” has no waves, no shoreline, and no water. In July 1969, two men stepped onto its surface while a third waited above them.
What is the Sea of Tranquility?
According to Sal, Earth, Wind, and Fire's "September" is the greatest song ever written. Coincidentally, the date said in the opening lyric was his mom's birthday. "Do you remember....The ____ night of September!"
What is the 21st?