Sacramento
Located in Sacramento since 1910, the Blue Diamond Growers is the world’s largest producer of what nut whose tree is native to Iran and whose most common varieties include Nonpareils, Mission and California?
Almond
When he retired in 1975, Harmon Killebrew had the fourth most home runs in major league history after spending most of his career with the Minnesota Twins. In what sport did Killebrew play his trade for more than two decades?
Baseball
With over 35 million units sold since June 1, 1989, what puzzle game is the best-selling Game Boy video game of all-time and was the first video game played in space by Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov in 1993?
Tetris
If you’re interested in winemaking, you’ll want to study viticulture, which tells you everything you need to know about growing what fruit?
Grapes
Alaskan farmers took out low-interest loans from the Rural Electrification Administration, established as one of what president's New Deal reforms?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Pat Morita punched in and punched out as a data entry clerk in Sacramento decades before getting an Oscar nod for waxing on and waxing off in what 1984 franchise starting film?
The Karate Kid
Large swaths of Minnesota are considered to be in the biome known for plants in mid- to high latitudes that shed their leaves as temperatures drop in autumn. What is the d-word for this type of foliage?
Deciduous
After being plucked off the streets of Moscow, a stray “Muttnik” named Laika “joined” the Russian space program. She didn’t survive the terrifying voyage, but in 1957 she made history when she became the first animal to orbit which planet?
Earth
Tags for identification and bug-repelling are often clipped to which body part on beef cattle?
Ear
Founded in 1971, the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations is better known as what stock exchange?
NASDAQ
What is the name of the international retail music franchise that was founded and based in Sacramento from 1960 until its bankruptcy in 2006?
Tower Records
At “Sioux Chef” Sean Sherman’s award-winning Minneapolis restaurant Owamni, diners enjoy dishes made entirely from Indigenous ingredients, including sweet potatoes, wild rice, and ribeye steaks from what 3,000-lb.bovine?
Bison
The first Russian settlement was at Three Saints Bay, on what large Alaskan island? The island is the second largest in the U.S. and has an area slightly larger than Cyprus.
Kodiak
What common leafy green is native to Persia and is often associated with a specific cartoon character who made his maritime debut in 1929?
Spinach
What "sweet" Canadian actor and comedian rose to fame as a member of the Toronto branch of the Second City, starred in major movies like "Uncle Buck," and died of a heart attack in Mexico at the age of 43?
John Candy
If you visit the California State Railroad Museum in Old Sacramento during the wintertime, you can take a train ride inspired by which 2004 computer-animated adventure starring Tom Hanks?
The Polar Express
Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz was born in Minneapolis in 1922 and grew up in nearby St. Paul. Name the most famous dog drawn by Schulz.
Snoopy
The Battle of the Three Emperors, also known as the Battle of Austerlitz, saw Austro-Russian forces defeated by an army led by which military and political leader in 1805?
Napoleon
In the 1950's, the "Cavendish" overtook the "Gros Michel" as the most commonly grown variety of what culinary fruit in the genus Musa?
Banana
"The Oracle of Omaha" is a nickname often used to describe what legendary American investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway?
Warren Buffett
Which politician who later became president was the last California governor to permanently live in Sacramento? (Hint: He was elected governor in 1967 after pivoting from his acting career).
Ronald Reagan
Although the statue is located more than 60 miles from its company headquarters, the city of Blue Earth, MN is home to a 55-foot tall statue of what verdant vegetable mascot?
Jolly Green Giant
Most commonly associated with the Russian royal family, a series of jeweled items created by the House of Fabergé firm resemble, and thus are named for, which other naturally produced object?
Eggs
California produces 98% of the United States' output of what green-colored nuts?
Pistachios
The Little Owl, sometimes called the Owl of Athena, is the national bird of which Mediterranean country?
Greece
Sacramento County is home to what reservoir and lake in the Sierra Nevada foothills, which shares its name with a prison in a Johnny Cash song?
Folsom Lake
Ralph Samuelson didn't know what he was doing when he took a pair of boards and a rope out on Lake Pepin in Minnesota in the summer of '22. After a couple days of experimenting, he ended up inventing what recreational activity?
Waterskiing
Ding! What’s the last name of the Russian psychologist, Ivan, whose conditioning experiments with salivating canines helped inform modern behavior therapy? Ding!
Pavlov
North Carolina's Piedmont region has historically been known for the growth of what crop, with modern companies such as Phillip Morris, Reynolds American, and Lorillard still having a heavy presence within the state?
Tobacco
What Canadian coffee and donut franchise was named after a professional hockey player who died in a car crash in 1974?
Tim Hortons
The U.S.'s oldest public art museum west of the Mississippi River is in Sacramento. What is its name?
The Crocker Art Museum
What manufacturer of toy trucks was originally the Mound Metalcraft Company, making metal garden tools out of the basement of a Minnesota schoolhouse before turning to making metal toys? Their toy truck would eventually land on Time Magazine's list of History's Best Toys.
Tonka
The German siege of the Russian city now known as Volgograd in 1942-1943 is widely considered the deadliest battle of World War II, and perhaps the deadliest of all time. What other name did Volgograd have at the time, by which the battle is typically known?
Stalingrad
What crop, the most common to be rotated with corn, was the focus of China trade war discussions because of the fact that 60% of the U.S. crop was exported to China in 2016?
Soybean
Which unit of electrical power equal to one joule per second was named after a Scottish inventor known for his work on the steam engine
Watt
One of the more expensive suburbs in the city, what suburb of Sacremento has a common igneous rock in its name?
Granite Bay
Which U.S. bus line set off with its first route in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1914 when Andy "Bus Andy" Anderson and C. A. A. "Arvid" Heed started a business to take iron ore miners two miles from Hibbing to the town of Alice for 15 cents per ride? In 1929, the company took on the name it’s known by today, which it shares with a very speedy pup.
Greyhound
What Russian city of 300,000 people, which lies only 67 kilometers from the country's border with Norway, is by far the largest city in the world that lies above the Arctic Circle?
Murmansk
What is the stonefruit that is the national fruit of India, Haiti, and the Philippines?
Mango
What aircraft, acquired by Lockheed Martin when they purchased Sikorsky Aircraft, was created as a tactical transport helicopter but has been used in a variety of combat roles including in the United States' air assault on Somalia?
Black Hawk
On September 5, 1975, an attempt on the life of which president was made by a member of the Manson Family cult in Capitol Park, Sacramento?
Gerald Ford
Which Minnesota-based S&P 500 company has the NYSE ticker symbol "MMM"?
3M
Before he became one of the greatest science fiction authors of all time, which Russian-born, Hugo-winning writer of “Foundation” and “I, Robot” was teaching himself and his sister to read as children in Brooklyn and working at the family’s candy store? It was that sweet locale that introduced the imaginative young man to the types of pulp magazines he’d eventually write for.
Isaac Asimov
New Holland, Case IH, and Kubota are among the brands that make what large-wheeled motor vehicles, often used on farms to haul equipment and trailers?
Tractors
Somewhere between a coffee and a dessert, an affogato contains espresso poured over what other star ingredient?
Gelato
What Sacramento native created what was the first discount securities brokerage, which opened its first branch in Sacramento in 1975?
Charles Schwab
The 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry regiment played an important role in winning what battle against Confederate soldiers on July 2, 1863? The regiment was on the front lines of the battle and suffered casualties >80%.
Battle of Gettysburg
Mikhail Popkov, a Russian rapist and serial killer who tallied over 70 victims in the 1990s and 2000s, is known by what lycanthropic nickname, associating him indirectly with Team Jacob and Lon Chaney, Jr.?
The Werewolf
A tree that still stands outside the Erechtheion temple is considered the most sacred moria, and which was given to Athens by Athena herself. What kind of tree, whose fruit Greece produces over 2 million tonnes each year, is the moria?
Olive
As of the "Robin War" storyline, the Court of Owls became the Parliament of Owls and continued to be a menace to what Wayne Industries comic book city?
Gotham City