The Chair of St. Peter
The actual date of the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter.
When is February 22nd?
The world's largest fish, one of the cartilaginous fish, which can grow up to 50 feet long.
What is a whale shark?
Shakespeare's first name
Who is William?
The name of this "child of the promise" means "laughter."
Who is Isaac?
One of the two Italian cities hosting this year's Olympic Winter Games.
What is Milan? OR
What is Cortina d'Ampezzo?
The material out of which the Chair is made.
What is wood?
These members of families such as Delphinidae, which comes from the Greek for "fish with a womb," is not actually a fish but a highly intelligent mammal.
What is a dolphin?
This theater in London build by Shakespeare's company in 1599 burned down in 1613, but you can still see Shakespeare plays at a modern reconstruction right next to the site of the original.
What is The Globe Theatre?
This miraculous baby broke nearly all of his Nazirite vows, but still saved Israel from the Philistines in the end.
Who is Samson?
This was the only sport women were allowed to compete in from the first Winter Olympics in 1924 until 1948.
What is figure skating?
In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI described the chair as "a symbol of the special mission of Peter and his Successors to tend Christ's flock, keeping it united in faith and in ________."
What is charity?
This carnivorous, freshwater, ray-finned fish is the state fish of Georgia and Mississippi, a highly popular sport fish, and considered extremely overrated by Mr. Landry.
What is a largemouth bass?
One of the two Shakespeare plays to be translated into Klingon, this tragedy follows a conflicted prince as he wrestles with something "rotten in the state of Denmark."
What is Hamlet?
This righteous old man was blessed to hold the baby Jesus in his arms before he died.
Who is Simeon?
This year's competitions in this winter Olympic sport where players slide a stone on the ice featured a cheating scandal from the Canadians, caught by the Swedes' hidden camera.
What is curling?
This title, which applies to all four saints holding up the Chair, honors them for their significant contributions to theology and doctrine.
What is a Doctor of the Church?
While endearing to many for their unique defense mechanism, they are the most poisonous type of fish in the world, containing the paralyzing tetrodotoxin. In Japan, skilled chefs carefully prepare this fish to create a safe delicacy called "fugu."
What is a puffer fish? OR
What is a blowfish?
It's considered bad luck to speak the name of this play full of "toil and trouble" aloud in a theater, unless actually performing it.
What is Macbeth?
This English idiom expressing surprise that wisdom can come from the inexperienced originates from the King James translation of Psalm 8:2.
What is "out of the mouths of babes"?
This crossover video game series first broke into the winter sports in 2009.
What is Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games?
This Holy Roman Emperor gave the Chair to Pope John VIII in 875 A.D.
Who is Charles the Bald?
This superclass of fish-- scientific name Osteichthyes-- is identified among other things by a swim bladder, scales, and external fertilization of eggs.
What are the bony fish?
This adjective meaning "tired, bored, or lacking in enthusiasm," which first appeared in Shakespeare's works, does not come from a gemstone but from a noun describing a tired, worn-out horse.
What is "jaded"?
This prophet was instructed to name one of his sons Ma′her-shal′al-hash′baz ("The spoil speeds, the prey hastes") as a sign of coming trouble.
Who is Isaiah?
This intimidating winter Olympic sport is a head-first version of luge.
What is skeleton?