Located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, this is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, making it the largest tennis stadium in the world.
What is Arthur Ashe Stadium?
Arborio is the specific grain used in this comforting Italian dish.
What is Risotto?
This is the only state in the contiguous United States that does not participate in daylight savings time.
What is Arizona?
The only state in the United States with a non-rectangular flag:
What is Ohio?
Somewhere between a coffee and a dessert, an ‘affogato’ contains espresso poured over this other star ingredient.
What is Gelato?
In miles, how long is the line that can you draw with a standard Hard Black (HB) pencil before the graphite runs out?
(Closest to correct answer goes first and gets 100 bonus points)
35 Miles
Dubbed the "$10 Million Dollar Drink," the Honey Deuce cocktail sells for $23 at the US Open and features Grey Goose Vodka, Chambord, Fresh Lemonade and is topped with this fruit, intended to look like a tennis ball.
What is the Honeydew Melon?
This type of pasta is known for its spiral shape
What is Gemelli?
The end of August marks the start of PSL (pumpkin spice latte) season for many across North America. "Pumpkin Spice" consists of three primary ingredients. What are they? (No punishment for naming two ingredients that are sometimes included in pumpkin spice).
What are Cinnamon, Cloves, and Nutmeg? (Optional Ingredients: Allspice and Ginger)
These three South American countries have similar flags featuring yellow, blue, and red horizonal stripes. (Half credit for 2/3 correct answers).
1. Colombia
2. Ecuador
3. Venezuela
This coffee drink is quite different from the version sold at Starbucks under the same name.
What is a Macchiato?
Since 1987, this US jewelry company has been the official producer of the U.S. Open Trophy, weighing 10 pounds and 18 inches tall. The trophy is awarded to both the men’s and women’s singles champion.
What is Tiffany & Co.?
Often dubbed "the king of cheese," under Italian Law, Parmigiano Reggiano cheese must be aged a minimum of this many months.
What is 12 months?
One of the more common trees found in Wisconsin, this tree turns a golden bronze in the fall due to the anthocyanins found in the leaves.
What is a Hickory Tree?
The 13 stars on this state's flag represent the original 13 colonies.
What is Rhode Island?
Following a 2006 acquisition, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters changed the company's official name. What was the name of this popular brewing-machinery company acquired by the Vermont coffee company?
Keurig
This computer vision system used in numerous sports such, such as soccer, cricket, and tennis, visually tracks the trajectory of the ball and displays a profile of its statistically most likely path as a moving image.
What is Hawk-Eye technology?
Carbonara, an Italian pasta dish that originated in the Lazio region, is traditionally made with this pork based product.
What is guanciale?
A bushel is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. How many much does a bushel of apples weigh? (will accept any answer within 5% of actual answer)
42 Pounds (will accept 40-44 Pounds)
This countries flag features the same three colors as the flag of Cameroon.
What is Lithuania?
This programming language was developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia.
What is Java?
In 2023, Coco Gauff snapped a 5 year drought for the US by winning the US Open. Who was the last US Open winner from the United States (before Coco)?
Sloane Stephens (2017)
Italian wines from the Tuscany region, including Chianti and Brunello, feature this popular grape.
What is Sangiovese?
In the late 1800s, this US President singed a law making the first Monday in September of each year a national holiday.
Who is President Grover Cleveland?
Purple is the least common color found in flags around the world. In fact, no flag features the color purple as a primary color and only four country flags from around the world include a trace of purple. Name One:
This German composer of “Ode to Joy” was an obsessive coffee fan, reportedly insisting on exactly 60 beans being used in his daily cup.
Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
What author wrote "I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it?" In the 1996 movie adaptation of the novel, the line was uttered by actor-director Danny Devito.
Roald Dahl