Liquid Gold
This viscous liquid is sometimes called black gold.
What is oil?
A legendary monarch who turned his daughter into gold.
Who is King Midas?
Winners of the first Olympics received an olive wreath. Olympic champions today receive a medal made mostly of this precious metal.
What is silver?
A term for the American film industry from about 1930 to 1960.
What is the Golden Age of Hollywood?
Babies in this order of animals stay in their mother's pouch from 2 to 12 months after birth depending on their species.
What are marsupials?
Two million flowers are required to make a pound of this golden substance.
What is honey?
In Thailand, a figure of this spiritual leader fittingly called "the golden ___" is made from five and a half tons of pure gold.
Who is Buddha?
This religious book was allegedly copied from golden plates lent by an angel in upstate New York.
What is the Book of Mormon?
Gold is mentioned 400 times in this timeless book.
What is the Bible?
The least common birth date.
What is February 29th?
Gold melts at 1,064°C (1,947°F), but this metal is liquid at room temperature.
What is mercury?
The chemical symbol for gold on the periodic table.
What is Au?
When Democratic presidential hopeful William Jennings Bryan said in a speech in 1896 that "you shall not crucify mankind to a cross of gold", broadly speaking, he was talking about this.
What is the gold standard?
This brought a million people to Australia in the 1850s.
Golden, Colorado, the birthplace of the jolly rancher, is also where this major brewing company is based.
What is Coors.
Molten gold is added to stained glass to make a vibrant shade of this color.
What is red?
This native empire was destroyed by Francisco Pizaro and his conquistadors to obtain 24 tons of gold, and more of silver.
Who were the Inca?
At times backed by gold, and at others by silver and gold, US currency is now backed by this.
What is the full faith and credit of the United States?
This country currently produces the most gold annually, 377 tonnes in 2024.
What is China?
A coming-of-age ceremony celebrated for Jewish boys when they turn 13.
What is Bar Mitzvah?
One of the oldest alcoholic beverages, made from honey, yeast, and water.
What is mead?
1st half of question: A unit that measures the purity of gold.
2nd half of question: measure that denotes 100% pure gold.
Karat
24-karat gold
This term refers to a period of rapid industrialization and political corruption in the late 1800s and comes from the title of a Mark Twain novel.
What is the Gilded Age?
This country produced the most gold ever annually, 1000 tonnes in 1970.
What is South Africa?
In America we give birthday spankings to mark the number of years. In Spain they pull on this small body part.
What is an earlobe?