Food
Which pasta is wider, fettuccine or linguine?
Fettuccine - means little ribbons
In the film Jurassic Park, where did the dinosaur DNA come from?
Mosquitoes preserved in amber
In the film Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon's character is a janitor at what university?
MIT
Which of these Central American countries doe NOT have a coastline on the Caribbean Sea - El Salvador, Belize or Panama?
El Salvador
At sea level, at which temperature in Fahrenheit does water boil?
212 degrees F
An old Yiddish proverb states "a nickel will get you on the subway" but what food will give you a seat?
garlic
In which season of South Park did Cartman, Kenny, Stan and Kyle start the fourth grade?
Fourth Season
An art heist that involved 13 masterworks totaling $500 million took place in 1990 at which Boston museum?
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
True - Pluto is 6.4 million square miles, and Russia is 6.6 million square miles
Who was the first US vice president to receive the Noble Peace Prize, after he raised awareness of climate change?
Al Gore - he received the prize in 2007
What is the Japanese name for boiled soybeans?
Edamame
Which HBO World War II miniseries stars a bunch of Brits as American soldiers in US Army's Easy Company?
Band of Brothers
In 1919, Boston suffered a devastating flood of which unlikely substance from a ruptured storage tank?
Molasses - the unexpected 15-foot high, viscous tsunami leveled buildings and killed 21 people
Antarctica
Arabica and Robusta are varieties of which plant?
Coffee
What was the first flavor of a Slurpee, whose creator in the late 1950s called it a "Fizz"?
Root Beer
In which fictional town in Rhode Island does the cartoon Family Guy take place?
Quahog
What year was the Boston Tea Party?
The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.
Which body of water is shared between Switzerland and France?
Lake Geneva
After oxygen, what is the most abundant element in the human body by weight?
carbon - its fundamental to the building of molecules
What is the name of the pastry hybrid created by chef Dominique Ansel?
The Cronut
For which film did Leonardo DiCaprio win his first Oscar in the best actor category?
The Revenant
Where does Boston get its Christmas tree that is displayed on the Boston Common?
Nova Scotia - since 1971 it has been given to the people of Boston by the people of Nova Scotia in thanks for their assistance after the 1917 Halifax Explosion.
In 1917, Boston provided Nova Scotia’s capital, Halifax, with help after a French munitions ship exploded following a collision with another vessel, destroying much of the north end of the city and killing more than 1,800 people.
2000-miler is the name given to a hiker who completes which epic US Trail?
Appalachian Trail - It covers 2,190 miles over 14 states
What is generally the brightest star in the night sky?