January Trivia
January 1st in the US is this Federal Holiday.
What is New Year's Day?
Argentine dance performed by a tropical fruit.
What is a Mango Tango?
This continent is the only one to not have a mountain range.
What is Australia?
Havana, Cuba is often referred to as the birthplace of this cocktail whose core ingredients include white rum, lime juice, and mint
What is a Mojito?
Bronze is an alloy consisting of these two elements
What are Copper and Tin?
Originally, Amazon sold only this.
What are books?
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads
She was Queen of Great Britain in the 1950s
Who is Elizabeth II?
January 1, 1902 begins the grand tradition of the original college football bowl game.
What is the Rose Ball?
President Gerald's bladed weapons.
What are Ford's Swords?
When you get on the Maid of the Mist boat tour at Observation Tower, you are in a US State Park to look at this its natural spectacle
What is Niagara Falls?
This cocktail that originates in Puerto Rico has a name that translates as “strained pineapple
What is a Pina Colada?
Currently, this is the furthest planet from the sun
What is Neptune?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
Who is Marie Curie?
Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today
I want to be a part of it: New York, New York
This American President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
Who was President Eisenhower?
12 million people are recorded having been to this American Island between January 1, 1892 and 1954.
What is Ellis Island?
What is a Peach Leech?
Technically speaking, Norway's coastline is about 18,000 miles long, but only 1,600 miles if you omit these crinkly inlets
What are Fjords?
Rye Whiskey, sweet red vermouth, and a dash of Angostura bitters are the ingredients in this cocktail, which is named for a New York City borough.
What is a Manhattan?
This is the tallest form of grass.
What is Bamboo?
In a browser, www stands for this
What is World Wide Web?
You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing, Let's Rock
Everybody, let's rock
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
He created the Polio Vaccine.
Who was Jonas Salk
January 1, 1863 Abraham Lincoln issues this document.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
President Ulysses angry tirades.
What are Grant's Rants?
The town of Pepin, Wisconsin is home to a museum honoring this author of the Little House books, most famously "Little House on the Prairie"
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
Cocktails like the Tequila Sunrise and Queen Mary call for this specific type of cherry, sweetened and preserved in syrup
What is a Maraschino?
This is the medical term for bad breath.
What is Halitosis?
In the Catholic Church, the Bishop of Rome is a title more commonly known as this.
What is Pope?
Put your glad rags on and join me, hon'
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight
We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight
Which novel was written by JD Salinger in 1951.
What is Catcher in the Rye?
January gets its name from this Roman God who is always depicted with one face looking toward the past, and one to the future.
Who is Janus?
Rice Wine for the guy who rides a racehorse
What is Jockey Saki?
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is located in this appropriately-named sea, which lies between Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, and which gives its name to a WWII-era naval battle
What is the Coral Sea?
One alcoholic spirit is found in all three of these cocktails: Gimlet, Aviation, and Tom Collins
What is Gin?
In E=MC2 , E stands for this.
What is Energy?
This day is colloquially known as Star Wars Day.
What is May 4th (as in May the Force be with you?)
Day-o, day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
Day, me say day, me say day, me say day
Me say day, me say day-o
Daylight come and me wan' go home
What is 1957?
Born January 1, 1895, he was the first director of the FBI.
Eisenhower's Scares.
What are Dwights' Frights or Ike's Yikes?
If you wanted to travel through three adjacent U.S. states that all started with the same letter, you would have to travel through these three states
What are Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa?
A Moscow Mule consists of vodka, ginger beer, and lime served chilled in a copper mug. This liquor could be subbed in to make a Kentucky Mule
What is Bourbon?
Frogs belong to this animal group.
What are amphibians?
Michael Joseph Blassie, who died in the Vietnam War, was identified through DNA testing in 1998 and was re-interred after having been buried in this specific location for the previous 26 years
What is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?
We've both been sound asleep, wake up, little Susie, and weep
The movie's over, it's four o'clock, and we're in trouble deep
Wake up, little Susie
Wake up, little Susie
We gotta go home
She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1953 for her role in "Roman Holiday"
Who is Audrey Hepburn?
January 1, 1942 US Manufacturers cease to create this product and do not begin production again until Japan surrendered.
What are automobiles?
Pilsner Trepidation
What is Beer Fear?
This South Pacific island country is also a beverage brand founded in 1996 under the name Natural Waters of Viti Ltd.
What is Fiji?
Israel’s popular sabra liqueur is chocolate with hints of this citrus fruit
What is Orange?
This M disease stems from the medieval term that means ‘bad air’
What is Malaria?
Some of our favorite collective nouns for animals include a congregation of alligators, a business of ferrets, an ostentation of peacocks, and a gaggle of these fowl
What are Geese?
Hands
Touchin' hands
Reachin' out
Touching me, touchin' you
Sweet Caroline
Good times never seemed so good
I've been inclined
To believe they never would
This American musician is known as "The King of Rock and Roll"
Who is Elvis?
January 1, 1863 this Act was enacted, giving land to settlers
What is the Homestead Act?
President Jimmy's Official Founding Documents.
What are Carter's Charters?
This major world capital sits on the site of an ancient body of water named Lake Texcoco, which was almost entirely drained in by Spanish colonists the 17th century
What is Mexico City?
When you replace the olive of a Martini with a cocktail onion you get this cocktail instead.
What is a Gibson?
The periodic table has this many elements.
What is 118?
During WWII the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence were stored here.
What is Fort Knox?
Hey Jude, don't make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her under your skin,
Then you'll begin to make it
Better better better better better better, oh.
Na na na nananana, nannana, hey Jude...
This toy was introduced in the 1950s and quickly became a popular craze
What is the Hula Hoop?
This American Country singer died at age 29 on January 1, 1953. He suffered from Spina Biffida Oculta and had seen the doctor that day. His song, Your Cheating Heart went to #1 for six weeks after his death
Who is Hank Williams?
Whiskey made in downtown Lexington or New York City.
What is an Urban Bourbon?
This country that starts with K is not only the largest landlocked country in the world but also a transcontinental because part of it is in Eastern Europe and part is in Central Asia.
What is Kazakhstan?
This expression in English often refers to hangovers that originally comes from a Scottish belief that placing a few follicles from a canine on a rabid bite can be a treatment.
What is the Hair of the Dog?
This is the quality of an object that allows it to float on water
What is Buoyancy?
In 2009 this was the first symbol added to Morse code since WWII
What is the @ symbol?
I've got sunshine, on a cloudy day
When it's cold outside, I've got the month of May
I guess you'd say
What can make me feel this way?
My girl, my girl, my girl
Talkin' 'bout my girl, my girl
This groundbreaking DNA structure was discovered by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953
What is the Double Helix?
January 1, 1971 was the last day these commercials were allowed to air on US Radio and TV shows.
What are cigarettes?
President William Howard's Vertical Gold Mine Passages?
What are Tafts' shafts?
The Kingdom of Bahrain, an island country in Western Asia, is an archipelago located on this gulf
What is the Persian Gulf?
If you grow it, they will drink: Rye and barley get a lot of attention in the distilling game, but a mash of this field-dwelling vegetable must legally be present if you’re making bourbon
What is Corn?
Mycology is the scientific study of this.
What is Fungi?
The first Starbucks that opened outside the US was in this country.
What is Japan?
When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother what will I be?
Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?
Here's what she said to me
Que sera, sera Whatever will be, will be The future's not ours to see. Que sera, sera; What will be, will be
Chuck Yeager was the first person to do this in 1952.
What is break the sound barrier?