Countries
What is the biggest country in the world (by territory)?
Russia.
Who are the two Americans that made the first successful flight of an aircraft in 1903?
The Wright Brothers.
What is the mascot of Henninger?
What does the "OS" in iOS mean?
Operating system.
Every year, the Great New York State Fair runs for 13 days and ends on the same holiday. What is the name of this holiday?
Labor Day.
What country also serves as an island and a continent?
Australia.
What does the prefix 'SS' stand for, when addressing the name of a vehicle on water?
Steamship.
What are the names of the five high schools a part of the Syracuse City School District?
Henninger, Nottingham, Corcoran, PSLA @Fowler, and ITC.
What does AI mean?
Artificial Intelligence.
What is the name of the artist who was scheduled in last minute to perform at Chevy Court on August 30th, 2019 at Great NYS Fair?
Juice WRLD.
By population, name the three largest cities in the United States (in any order).
What is the name of the astronaut who first walked on the moon in 1969?
Neil Armstrong.
How many years does it take for someone to earn a bachelor's degree?
Four years.
What year was the first iPhone released?
2007.
What was the original purpose of state fairs in the 1800s?
Showcasing and selling agriculture (livestock and crops).
What is the name of the only country that starts with the letter 'Q'?
Qatar.
In what city is the world's busiest subway system located at?
Tokyo, Japan (over 3 billion passengers annually).
Name the eight Ivy League schools (in any order).
Cornell, Harvard, Brown, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Yale.
What was the first printed book in 1455?
The Bible.
The Great New York State Fair is the oldest state fair in the country. What year did the first State Fair take place?
1841.
What is the dominant language of Vatican City, the city-state where the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church lives?
Italian.
What is the name of the man who is often credited with making cars affordable for middle class and mass-producing car parts in assembly lines in the United States?
Henry Ford.
Henninger High School is named in honor of Anthony A. Henninger. Who was he?
Anthony A. Henninger was the mayor of Syracuse (1957-1961) when the school finished construction.
In what year did Tim Berners-Lee invent the World Wide Web?
1991.
There weren't any Great New York State Fairs between 1942 and 1947. What were the Fairgrounds used for during this time period?
The Fairgrounds were used as a military base during World War II.