Food
What Nabisco-produced snack cookie with mostly yellow packaging was named for a town near Boston?
Fig Newton
What video game came with the Nintendo Entertainment System when it was released in the late 1980s, and was meant to be played with the NES Zapper gun? It shared a cartridge with "Super Mario Bros."
Duck Hunt
Patrick Bateman is narrator and a serial killer in what novel by Bret Easton Ellis? The book was later translated to film by Mary Harron in 2000.
American Psycho
If you visit a museum on East Main Street, you can see a pair of socks once worn by the poet who penned “The Raven.” What’s the spooky scribe’s triple name?
Edgar Allan Poe
The Bridgeport Sound Tigers and the Hartford Wolf Pack are both professional sports franchises based in Connecticut that compete in what sport?
Hockey
Created in the 1980s to represent all the difficulties of getting a pizza delivered in 30 minutes or less, The Noid is a red-suited villain who appears in advertising for what restaurant chain?
Domino's
Microsoft Disk was one of the original widely used operating systems all the way from the 1980s, but it has been fully unsupported since 2006. What hyphenated nickname is this classic system more commonly known by?
MS-DOS
Which serial killer claimed 11 female victims between 1962 and 1964 before he was eventually identified as Albert DeSalvo?
The Boston Strangler
Pollywogs appear before King Neptune and his court to become shellbacks in a weird, unofficial U.S. Navy ceremony commemorating a sailor's first official crossing of what imaginary line?
Equator
Noted for her pink hair and her skill on the field, what USWNT athlete was named Sportsperson of the Year by Sports Illustrated in 2019?
Megan Rapinoe
What frozen food brand started out as a chain of restaurants in the Cleveland, Ohio area? The brand was bought by Nestle in 1973.
Stouffer's
What popular acronymic technological service was developed by the Department of Defense under the Navstar program, and eventually released to public use in the 1980s?
GPS
Richard Kuklinski, the contract killer known as "The Iceman" (he is the basis of the movie with the same name), was convicted of killing 6 people and claimed to have killed over 100. In what state did he primarily operate?
New Jersey
Weirdly, you don't zip yourself inside the Sealy memory foam mattress brand that shares what C-name with a 1985 Steve Guttenberg movie about friendly aliens and retiree hijinks?
Cocoon
What since-relocated baseball team did Babe Ruth coach for a year after retiring?
Dodgers
What internationally known chef with the first name Ettore began his career in Cleveland before reaching a level of household fame known by few other chefs in history?
Chef Boyardee
What 1986 war movie, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, is about a man who won the Medal Of Honor at the titular battle of the Korean War, and is now leading Mario Van Peebles and other soldiers into 1980s Grenada?
Heartbreak Ridge
"The owl defense" or "owl theory" was used in a famous murder trial by attorney Larry Pollard to explain the head wound of the female victim. This is highlighted in the true crime series "The Staircase," but who was the alleged HUMAN murderer in the case?
Michael Peterson
Portland, Oregon holds a strange record likely to go without contest. In 2000, researchers in the city earned the title for creating what first-of-its-kind bioluminescent animal? Although they inserted jellyfish glow genes into a whole barrel of them, only one came out with the unique ability.
Monkey
What four-time Olympic gold medalist, considered "perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history" during his lifetime, called Cleveland home from the age of 9 onwards?
Jesse Owens
What Filipino fast food brand now sells its flagship Chicken Joy product in 1,500 outlets worldwide?
Jollibee
"Like I always say, what's good for the goose is always good for the gander," begins what 1985 number-one hit song by Ready for the World?
Oh Sheila
The Baseline Killer, The Maryvale serial shooter, and the Serial Shooter are all locally-famous killers from what 48th U.S. state?
Arizona
Let's take stock of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: one still exists, five are known to have been destroyed, and one has an unknown location and ultimate fate with theories that it may have never existed. What is this mysterious wonder?
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The final match of the 1994 World Cup took place at which American sports venue?
The Rose Bowl