TV
elevision legend Bob Barker was an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and spent his youth on a South Dakota reservation. Barker hosted what daytime game show for more than three decades until his retirement in 2007?
The Price Is Right
Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterial species known for causing what infectious disease that is spread by ticks in the genus Ixodes?
Lyme Disease
As part of an effort to break into the Indian market, Nike released the Air Zoom Yorker to target players of what sport?
Cricket
Thailand
Bangkok
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Maryland
Baltimore Oriole
The oil was only supposed to last one night, however the oil in the Temple lasted how many nights leading Jews to celebrate Hanukkah for that period of time?
Eight
______ was introduced to the United States in the late 19th century by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. The word itself comes from Yiddish.
Pastrami
Maria Tallchief, a member of the Osage Nation of Oklahoma, pirouetted her way to fame as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker and in the title role of The Firebird. Working with her mentor and husband, George Balanchine, Tallchief is considered America’s first superstar in what art form?
Ballet
What famed Chicago-based improv theater group served as a career springboard for Steve Carell, Tina Fey, John Candy, and more?
Second City
"The Addams Family" television show is based on cartoons created by Charles Addams for what publication?
The New Yorker
Which infectious disease that’s spread to humans by mosquito bites is caused by Plasmodium spp?
Malaria
Ashtanga, Bikram, and Vinyasa are three of the more popular forms of what practice that originated in ancient India?
Yoga
Taiwan
Taipei
Florida
Tallahassee
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Red
Chametz are foods with leavening agents that are forbidden on which Jewish holiday that celebrates the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt?
Passover
The classic Reuben sandwich, made with corned beef, Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, and Thousand Island dressing on rye bread, was invented at a deli in what city in the early 1900s.
New York City
What Chiricahua Apache leader led raids against the U.S. Army in the Southwest until his final surrender in 1886? Today, this leader's grave can be found on the army base at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.
Geronimo
What is the common name of the object that is formerly known as a besom, has a common association with Halloween, and is produced and sold by brands such as Treelen, Libman, and SWOPT?
Broom
The Mach 5 is the sleek and swift vehicle of choice for the titular character on what animated television series named “Mach GoGoGo” in Japan?
Speed Racer
Koplik’s spots are the nasty little white abrasions from what contagious airborne disease that's repped by the first Ms in an MMR vaccine?
Measles
With more than 500 million native speakers, what is the most commonly spoken language in India?
Hindi
Syria
Damascus
Missouri
Jefferson City
New York
Eastern Bluebird
What holiest day of the Jewish year focuses on atonement with a fast, confession, and prayer? It lent its name to an armed conflict between Israel and a coalition of Egypt and Syria in 1973.
Yom Kippur
The word Deli is a shortened version of ____ a German word meaning "delicious things to eat".
"delicatessen"
In 1985, Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to be elected chief of what U.S. tribal nation based in Oklahoma? With over 400,000 enrolled members, it's the second-largest tribal nation in the U.S. after the Navajo.
Cherokee Nation
Deglutition is the scientific term for what common bodily function that humans do hundreds of times a day?
Swallowing
Probably the most famous spin-off of all time, what yellow family of five actually started on television as a series of shorts that aired in the late ‘80s on “The Tracey Ullman Show”?
The Simpsons
Austrian pediatrician Theodor Escherich is credited with discovering what disease-bearing bacterium, which still bears his name?
E. Coli
Magnus Carlsen could tell you that the Sanskrit word chaturanga is the original word for what internationally famous board game which was invented in India?
Chess
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
South Dakota
Pierre
California
California Quail
A bar mitzvah, literally meaning "son of the commandment," is traditionally celebrated when Jewish males turn what age?
13
At one time, in what year was there were about 15,000 delis in New York City.
1959
Born to Egyptian Muslim parents in Norman, Oklahoma, what broadcast journalist who originally joined NBC News in 1998 has risen all the way to co-anchoring “Today” each morning with Savannah Guthrie?
Hoda Kotb
Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, Elvis Presley, Babe Ruth, Tiger Woods and Rush Limbaugh received what prestigious medal by President Donald Trump during his presidential term?
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Featuring Grandma Minka telling her grandson Tommy Pickles and his friends about the meaning of the celebrated Jewish holiday, what Nickelodeon animated series made history by becoming one of the first American children’s television shows to air a Hanukkah special in December 1996?
Rugrats
What “L” disease is a form of atypical pneumonia caused by its namesake bacteria? It is somewhat unique in disease nomenclature with its use of the “’s” and the word “Disease” in its full name.
Legionnaires' Disease
What is the four-letter word for a women's garment from India made of an unstitched drape up to nine meters in length that is typically wrapped around the waist with one end draped over the shoulder?
Sari
Sri Lanka
Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte
Minnesota
Saint Paul
Illinois
Northern Cardinal
Literally meaning “head of the year”, what three day holiday celebrates the Jewish New Year? In English it is sometimes referred to as the Feast of Trumpets.
Rosh Hashanah
Bologna is the American version of ______, a centuries-old Italian sausage from Bologna, Italy.
mortadella
The annual football match-up between the University of Oklahoma and the University of Texas is known by what name, referring to the river that separates the two states?
Red River Showdown
What classic literary villain, described as a "Machiavellian schemer and manipulator" shares his name with an avian sidekick in the Disney film "Aladdin?"
Iago