Idioms
Oh no! You've just said something good will happen to you in the future. What do you knock on to keep karma from getting you?
Wood
What "T" word is technically a wave generated by an undersea earthquake?
Tsunami
Wielded by ancient Roman foot soldiers (as well as Maximus in the movie Gladiator), what type of weapon is a gladius?
Sword
Which transcontinental country (Europe and Asia) spans 11 time zones?
Russia
There's a specific snack often associated with a type of entertainment venue. This snack has been created for thousands of years but the accessibility increased rapidly in the 1890s with the invention of a dedicated machine. The snack is made of the species Zea mays. What is this snack?
Popcorn
If you "look a little down in the dumps" then you most likely are looking a little what?
Sad
Many animals sleep for portions of the year. What is the more common American English term for this behavior?
Hibernation
Created in the 15th century BC, the oldest object in New York City's Central Park is an obelisk also known as the "needle" of what Ptolemaic Egyptian queen?
Cleopatra
Which island (a British territory off the east coast of North America, also of triangle fame) doesn’t actually have its own natural source of fresh water and instead relies on rainwater collection?
Bermuda
As of 2019, what food brand offers different filters on its website for "Chunky," "Chunky Maxx," "Slow Kettle Style," and "Kid Fun" soups?
Campbell's
To "come across as" something means you what that thing?
Resemble
*DAILY DOUBLE* Strangely enough, the Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for the "fastest wing beat of a bird" and the record holder has an astonishing 200 beats/flaps per SECOND. This record-holder is the ruby-throated variety of what type of bird?
Hummingbird
*DAILY DOUBLE* The first capital of Egypt shares its name with which southern U.S. city that may not have any pyramids, but once was home to the King.
Memphis
Even though its temperature rarely gets above zero, which continent is home to the largest desert on Earth?
Antarctica
This is the oldest soft drink in America?
Dr. Pepper
The saying "everything is over my head", means what?
Understand nothing
What bird, extinct by 1681, was named for the Portuguese word for "stupid"?
Dodo
With a story made famous in a 1960 film, what Thracian gladiator famously led the Third Servile War, a revolt of more than 100,000 slaves against the Roman Empire using guerrilla warfare?
Spartacus
*DAILY DOUBLE* Tegucigalpa is the capital city of what Central American country, which borders Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua?
Honduras
What soft drink has trademarked the slogan "Obey Your Thirst"?
Sprite
When you want to get organised, you may say you need to straighten up these animals.
Ducks
Big hairy and greater fairy are larger species of what mammals whose name means "little armored ones"?
Armadillos
In ancient Greece, which term referred to an Athenian democratic procedure in which a citizen could be expelled from Athens for ten years? In modern usage, this term means exclusion by general consent from common privileges or social acceptance.
Ostracism
The smallest of Africa's waterfowl species, the African pygmy goose is native to what country that also has many lemur species?
Madagascar
Outside of its home city, the St. Louis Bread Company is more popularly known as what chain restaurant?
Panera