Colors
It is associated with giant conifers in California
What is red?
This nation elected an unhinged dictator as its president in both 2016 and 2024, despite its founding and Constitution being based entirely on the concept, "We Hate Dictators!"
What is the United States?
This American rock-and-roll subgenre inspired by a midwestern city included artists such as Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, and Marvin Gaye.
What is Motown?
The number of outs in one inning.
What is six?
Known as the "powerhouse of the cell," this organelle generates most of the chemical energy needed to power cellular biochemical reactions.
What is the mitochondrion (mitochondria)?
When someone is inexperienced.
What is green?
Born in 1918, this African anti-apartheid leader spent 27 years in prison before being elected his nation's President in 1994.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
During a live performance on MTV in July, 1989, this pop group were caught lip-synching their hit song, "Girl You Know It's True," and subsequently had their Grammy Award revoked, while losing several costly lawsuits.
Who is Milli Vanilli?
This Major League franchise began in Sioux City, Iowa, before Charles Comiskey moved them to Chicago in 1900, where they won World Series titles in 1906, 1917, and 2005.
What is the Chicago White Sox?
This central control structure of the cell houses the genetic material, or DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This derogatory term for reporting peaked during the Spanish American War in the 1890s, when Pulitzer's New York World battled Hearst's New York Journal for news supremacy.
What is yellow journalism?
Hours after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, this emperor declared war on the U.S. and Great Britain.
Who is Hirohito?
Written by George Harrison, this cheerful 1969 Beatles hit song from Abbey Road makes for a great morning wake-up tune.
What is "Here Comes the Sun".
Amid death threats and intense public pressure, this legendary outfielder, known as "Hammerin' Hank", broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record by hitting his 715th four-bagger for the Atlanta Braves on April 8, 1974.
Who is Henry (Hank) Aaron?
Plant cells have this rigid outer layer surrounding the cell membrane that provides structural support and shape, whereas animal cells do not.
What is cell wall?
The color of the mountains in Katharine Lee Bates' famous 1895 song inspired by a trip to the summit of Pikes Peak.
What is purple?
In April 1945, after visiting the newly liberated Ohrdruf Concentration Camp in Germany, this American General ordered politicians, journalists, and local German citizens to inspect the camps so the horrors could never be denied.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This alphabetic alternative rock band ruled the college airwaves after forming in 1980 in Athens, Georgia, and writing such hits as "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" and "Man on the Moon."
What is R.E.M.
What E.R.A. stands for.
What is earned run average?
These tiny cellular structures act as the sites for protein synthesis.
What are the ribosomes?
A multi-step process turns tree resin into this gemstone over millions of years.
This French WWII General and subsequent President had a major airport in Paris named after him.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
Brian Jones was a founding member and multi-instrument contributor of this super group who drowned in his swimming pool in East Sussex, England, in July, 1969, at the age of 27, shortly after being dismissed from the band.
Who are the Rolling Stones?
The decade when Alexander Cartwright and the New York Knickerbocker Baseball Club wrote down the first rules of baseball.
What is the 1840s?
These membrane-bound sacs contain powerful digestive enzymes and are responsible for breaking down worn-out cellular parts.
What are lysosomes?