Geography
Which volcano destroyed Pompeii in 79 AD?
Mt. Vesuvius
Which famous ceiling did Michelangelo paint?
The Sistine Chapel
Minolta is a brand of what?
Who created the Muppets?
Jim Henson
Which bone is the patella?
The kneecap
How many North American Great Lakes are there?
Five
The "hammer and the sickle" flag once represented what former country?
Soviet Union (Russia)
Adobe is a sun-dried what?
Brick
What "Achy Breaky Heart" singer won the American Music Award for Single of the Year in 1992?
Billy Ray Cyrus
On which part of the human body is the metatarsal arch?
Foot
On which continent did the fig originate?
Asia
Which country donated the Statue of Liberty to the people of the US?
France
In the Wild West, what place was referred to as "the calaboose"?
Jail
What English mariner discovered Australia's Great Barrier Reef?
Captain Cook
What homonym can be a bivalve mollusk and one of over 600 moving parts of the human body?
Mussel/muscle
Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain on which continent?
Africa
To which country are Sherpa people native?
Nepal
What fate befell US Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy?
Assassination (all were shot)
Which country singer was called "the Man in Black"?
Johnny Cash
Capillaries are the smallest of what in the body?
Blood vessels
What is the second largest ocean in area?
The Atlantic Ocean
Nefertiti was the queen of which ancient civilization?
Egypt
How many years does a silver wedding anniversary celebrate?
25
Who won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her work in Calcutta?
Mother Teresa
Demented painter Vincent van Gogh infamously cut off which body part?
His ear