Maryland Brands
The owner of this athletic apparel company was a walk-on for the University of Maryland football team
Under Armour
This woman, who discovered radium and polonium, actually won two Nobel Prizes. The Physics one in 1903 and the Chemistry one in 1937.
Marie Curie
This donut chain, founded in North Carolina, is known for their "Hot Now" light in the storefront when donuts have come off the production line
Krispy Kreme
Maryland's State Sport
Jousting
Mexico City
Mexico
This spice company, founded in Baltimore in 1889, manufactures the "goes on everything" Old Bay seasoning
McCormick & Company
This English biochemist won two Nobel Prizes in Chemistry. One in 1958 for research into protein structures, particularly insulin, and another in 1980 for his contributions in a sequencing method for DNA
Frederick Sanger
This US city has the most doughnut shops per person, with one shop for every 2,480 people (in 2013)
Boston
California's State Fabric
Denim
Vientiane
Laos
Nearly 80% of this Bethesda-based aerospace company's revenue comes from military sales
Lockheed Martin
This Pakistani woman, who fights for the right of all children to have education, became the youngest woman to win a Nobel Prize when she won the Nobel Peace Prize at age 17
Malala Yousafzai
This US president once said "Ich bin ein Berliner" in a speech to protest Soviet communism during the Cold War. Playfully, this has been translated to "I am a jelly doughnut".
John F Kennedy
West Virginia's State Rock
Coal
Tallinn
Estonia
This Bethesda-based hotel chain is the largest in the world, if you count the number of available hotel rooms
Marriott International
This American man, whose work on game theory earned him a share of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economics, was played by Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind.
This actress ate, amongst other things, 20 donuts a day in order to gain weight to reprise her role in "Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason".
Renée Zellweger
Wyoming's State Dinosaur
Triceratops
Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea
This chain of convenience stores (and sometimes gas stations) opened their first store in Baltimore in 1959 and has more than 200 stores in the Mid-Atlantic area. Their chicken box is also pretty good.
Royal Farms
This well-known folk singer-songwriter won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"
Bob Dylan
This Portland, OR-based donut shop, known for their wild flavors, once even offered NyQuil- and Pepto Bismol-coated doughnut
Voodoo Doughnut
Oklahoma's State Vegetable
Watermelon
Windhoek
Namibia