Science
What is the 3rd planet from the sun?
Earth
What letter is used to to paste information when clicked synchronously with Ctrl?
V
In May 2003, the fastest known speeding ticket in US history was handed out, with a Swedish sports car allegedly going 242 MPH in a 75 MPH zone. Fittingly, in what state did this occur? I suppose everything's bigger, and everything's faster there.
Texas
What search engine makes changes to its logo, known as "doodles," to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and famous people, such as a pointillist version in honor of artist Georges Seurat?
You get a book! You get a book! You get a book! For 15 years, starting in 1996, what daytime talk show megastar’s book club recommended a total of 70 books leading to total sales of over 55 million copies?
Oprah Winfrey
An average human performs what basic eye function about 20 times a minute, or over ten million times a year? At year's end, your eye must be really moist.
blink
What startup, acquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012, became the fourth most downloaded app in the 2010s and is known for the posting of pictures?
Civil Rights activist Yuji Ichioka founded the short lived AAPA organization while studying at UC Berkeley in 1968. What two word alliterative name, coined by Ichioka to refer to a particular demographic of people in the U.S.A, did the first two letters of AAPA stand for?
Asian American
What musical artist performed at the 2015 Super Bowl halftime show with a "Firework" finale?
Katy Perry
The author of novels like "Snow" and "My Name is Red," Orhan Pamuk was the first Turkish person to win what prestigious literature award given out by the Swedish Academy? They also give out awards for medicine, chemistry, and peace.
Nobel Prize
Twenty percent of the oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere is provided exclusively by what large rainforest?
Amazon
What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia?
Java
According to legend, Delaware gets the nickname "Diamond State" because it was once called "a jewel among the states" by what third U.S. President?
Thomas Jefferson
What is the last name of the “Queen of Soul” who got some R-E-S-P-E-C-T when she was ranked 9th in Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Artists of All Time”?
Franklin
A young boy takes a train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve in what classic 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg?
The Polar Express
Your heart is nestled in your chest between the two halves of what other organ?
lungs
Pierre Omidyar founded which popular online auction company in 1995 out of San Jose, California?
eBay
What Boston-based battle of the American Revolutionary War is somewhat inaccurately named, since most of the fighting took place on Breed's Hill?
Battle of Bunker Hill
Named "Girl With Balloon" before it was partially shredded at a 2018 auction, "Love Is in the Bin" is an artwork that sold for $25.4 million in 2021, by what one-named artist?
Banksy
What classic Leo Tolstoy novel, first released serially from 1873-1877, tells the story of a titular woman and her affair with Count Vronsky? Keira Knightley played the title character in a 2012 movie adaptation directed by Joe Wright.
Anna Karenina
The prevalence sexual cannibalism in which after mating the female consumes the male inspired the name for what type of spiders? There are theories that this behavior may increase the survival odds of eventual offspring.
black widow spiders
What word is often abbreviated as Fn on a keyboard?
function
From 2000 to 2008, U.S. "golden" dollar coins were minted with an image of what Shoshone woman who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Sacagawea
In 2000, Intuitive Surgical Company launched a robotic surgical system to assist surgeons with everything from prostate removals to heart valve repairs. The system was named after which famous artist who was known for his anatomical drawings and a portrait of a smirking lady?
Leonardo da Vinci
The Shujing, Chunqiu, and Shijing are considered the foundations of the literary tradition in what country?
China