Outer space
Zipping around the Sun in only 88 Earth days, what is the name of the closest planet to our nearest star?
Mercury
Black history month starts on which month?
February
Which serial killer of boys and young men tried to turn his victims into zombies by drilling holes in their heads while they were still alive and injecting hydrochloric acid or boiling water into their brains?
Jeffrey Dahmer
Assassinated in Sarajevo by Serbian ultra-nationalist Gavrilo Princip, a member of the "Black Hand."
Franz Ferdinand
How many knights does each player have when beginning a chess game?
Two
What was the first country to send a man into outer space?
Russia
Which President of America signed and pass the law of the Voting Rights Act?
Lyndon B. Johnson
Which serial killer's intelligence, charm, and good looks were emphasized in media coverage of his murder trial in Florida in 1978?
Ted Bundy
The second USA President to be assassinated
James A. Garfield
Slogo for this game is: the game that ties you up in knots
Twister
What is the final stage of a suns life?
Planetary nebula
Which man strove to improve educational opportunities for African Americans and founded the Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T. Washington
He is known as "The Co-Ed Killer." He killed his grandparents and was committed to a maximum-security mental hospital from which he was later released and ended up killing eight women. What is his name?
Edmund Kemper
Had recently been named "dictator in perpetuity", which many believed would be the end of the Republic.
Julius Caesar
In Hungry Hungry Hippos, what do the hippos have to gobble?
Marbles
What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Venus
Which author and activist wrote The Souls of Black Folk, and was a leader in the Pan-African movement?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Which serial killer styled himself “Son of Sam”?
David Berkowitz
Killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary “People’s Will” group on March 13 1881
Czar Alexander II
Which letters are worth 10 points at Scrabble
Q and Z
Ganymede is a moon of which planet?
Jupiter
Which African-American leader was active in the Civil Rights Movement and later made two attempts to become president of the US in the 1980s?
Jesse Jackson
Which serial killer and doctor murdered at least 215 middle-aged and elderly people by injecting them with overdoses of painkillers?
Harold Shipman
This perosn was essentially the de facto ruler of Jerusalem and one of the major participants of the Third Crusade. However, he was officially crowned king in 1192. At the same time, he was involved in a struggle with Richard I of England over the kingship of the throne of Jerusalem. As fate would have it, just when he was elected as king, four days later he was brutally assassinated.
Conrad of Montferrat
How many pieces dose each person start with in backgammon?
15