$80,000
According to the CNBC documentary "The Costco Craze: Inside the Warehouse Giant," the superstore takes in about $400 million a year on what #1-selling item?
A. Laundry detergent
B. Batteries
C. Toilet paper
D. Coffee
C. Toilet paper
Traditionally, what form of address is used when writing a letter to a foreign ambassador?
A. His or Her Eminence
B. His or Her Excellency
C. The Honorable
D. Mr. or Madam President
B. His or Her Excellency
One of the world's oldest conservation groups, England's RSPB was founded in 1889 to stop women from wearing what?
A. Leather boots
B. Ivory brooches
C. Fur coats
D. Feathered hats
D. Feathered hats
Which of the following was found by Napoleon's army in 1799 as they were rebuilding a Middle Eastern fort?
A. The Dead Sea Scrolls
B. The Shroud of Turin
C. Tutankhamun's Tomb
D. The Rosetta Stone
D. The Rosetta Stone
Tomas Masaryk was the first President of which country?
A. Czechoslovakia
B. Poland
C. Hungary
D. Yugoslavia
A. Czechoslovakia
Invented by a Calgary, Alberta bartender in 1969, a "Bloody Caesar" is basically a Bloody Mary with what signature ingredient added?
A. Clam juice
B. 7Up
C. Lemonade
D. Coconut milk
A. Clam juice
Leonardo DiCaprio has played all but which of these historical figures on film?
A. J. Edgar Hoover
B. Howard Hughes
C. Louis XIV
D. Buffalo Bill Cody
D. Buffalo Bill Cody
Narrowly defeating an Erzherzog Johann in the final round, a Swiss Emmentaler is the most recent winner of the World Championship "what" Contest?
A. Tomato
B. Cheese
C. Chocolate
D. Wine
B. Cheese
Apparently trying to cover all their bases, iTunes' terms and conditions explicitly forbid you from using the service to do what?
A. Defraud foreign governments
B. Counterfeit postage stamps
C. Design nuclear weapons
D. Traffic in endangered species
C. Design nuclear weapons
Put the following writers in order of their births, starting with the most recent.
A. Charles Dickens
B. J.R.R. Tolkien
C. Joseph Conrad
D. John LeCarre
D,B,C,A
Needing to invest something fast to pay off a $15 debt, in 1849 inventor Walter Hunt twisted a piece of wire to create the modern version of what ubiquitous item?
A. Sewing needle
B. Safety pin
C. Staple
D. Radio antenna
B. Safety pin
The show "Mythbusters" has deemed it "plausible" that you could raise a sunken ship from the ocean floor by filling it with what?
A. Alka-Seltzer tablets
B. Cotton
C. Ping-pong balls
D. Rubber bands
C. Ping-pong balls
Although it follows the teachings of Jesus, what religious group doesn't typically celebrate Christmas?
A. Latter-day Saints
B. Mennonites
C. Jehovah's Witnesses
D. Christian Scientists
C. Jehovah's Witnesses
Eradicated in the U.S., there are no reports of what disease ever being contracted in Asia, though the WHO warns that the "appropriate mosquito vector is present"?
A. Cholera
B. Typhoid
C. Polio
D. Yellow fever
D. Yellow fever
The oldest copy of Beowulf is in a manuscript of what name?
A. Egil's Saga
B. Nowell Codex
C. Etruscan Gold Book
D. Prose Edda
B. Nowell Codex
Despite being potentially deadly in its natural state, sodium azide is commonly used in what lifesaving device?
A. Airbags
B. Bulletproof vests
C. Pacemakers
D. EpiPens
A. Airbags
While the Academy Award is called the "Oscar," allegedly for its resemblance to a member's uncle, what do the French call their equivalent, named for its sculptor?
A. Cesar Award
B. Benoit Award
C. Pierre Award
D. Jacques Award
A. Cesar Award
You may not want to eat it, but Bavarian archeologists found a 250-year-old what - believed to be the oldest ever discovered?
A. Tortilla
B. Quiche
C. Pizza
D. Pretzel
D. Pretzel
In 1912, the Titanic departed from what English port?
A. Bristol
B. Dover
C. Portsmouth
D. Southampton
D. Southampton
What was the profession of the composer Borodin?
A. Naval captain
B. Chemist
C. Lawyer
D. Chef
B. Chemist
What is the only current U.S. coin with a president's profile facing to the right?
A. Half Dollar
B. Quarter
C. Nickel
D. Penny
D. Penny
Showing tense or possibility, "am," "is," "are," "was," "were," "be," "being," and "been" are among the words nicknamed what?
A. Cooperative nouns
B. Friendly adjectives
C. Helping verbs
D. Supportive exclamations
C. Helping verbs
Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, traveled aboard a space capsule of what name?
A. Soyuz
B. Orel
C. Sputnik
D. Vostok
D. Vostok
Which was the most recent horse to win the Triple Crown?
A. Affirmed
B. Justify
C. Secretariat
D. American Pharoah
B. Justify
A party at Flora's house is a setting in which opera?
A. La Boheme
B. The Marriage of Figaro
C. Madama Butterfly
D. La Traviata
D. La Traviata