Misc
Clue: A standard deck of playing cards contains this exact total number of cards, excluding jokers.
What is 52?
Clue: This famous, long river flows north through Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Nile?
Clue: This famous 16th-century English playwright wrote classic tragedies like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Clue: Derived from Latin, this 6-letter noun refers to a person who travels to a holy place for religious reasons.
What is a Pilgrim?
Clue: Widely considered one of the greatest basketball players ever, this legendary No. 23 won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Who is Micheal Jordan?
Clue: This is the specific chemical element that makes up the core "lead" of a modern everyday pencil.
What is Graphite?
Clue: This narrow strip of land features a famous man-made canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is Panama?
Clue: This ancient Roman general and dictator was famously assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BC.
Who is Julius Caesar?
Clue: This noun refers to a deep, painful feeling of regret or guilt for doing something wrong in the past.
What is Remorse?
Clue: This American gymnastics superstar has won the most Olympic medals in US history, dominated the 2024 Paris Games, and is widely called the "GOAT."
Who is Simone Biles?
Clue: Unlike many other even-toed ungulates that walk on only two digits, the mighty hippo walks on this many functional toes per foot.
What is 4?
Clue: This major North American river flows south from Minnesota all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
What is the Mississippi River?
Clue: This young French peasant girl led the French army to a historic victory at Orléans during the Hundred Years' War before being burned at the stake.
Who is Joan of Arc?
Clue: This 9-letter adjective describes someone who is incredibly careful, precise, and shows great attention to detail.
What is Meticulous?
Clue: This is the only NFL team to achieve a completely undefeated season, capped by a victory in Super Bowl VII.
Who are the Miami Dolphins?
Clue: This is the only letter in the English alphabet that does not appear in the name of any US state.
What is Q?
Clue: This European capital city is famous for its extensive canal system, historic windmills, and being built entirely on wooden piles.
What is Amsterdam?
Clue: This dynamic Macedonian king and tactical genius successfully overthrew the Persian Empire before his untimely death in Babylon at age 32.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Clue: This 8-letter noun refers to an intense hostility, hatred, or active ill-will directed toward someone else.
What is Animosity?
Clue: This American gymnastics superstar has won the most Olympic medals in US history, dominated the 2024 Paris Games, and is widely called the "GOAT."
What is Liverpool?
Clue: This goddess of agriculture plunged the Earth into a barren winter out of grief after her daughter, Persephone, was abducted into the Underworld.
Who is Demeter?
Clue: Though it is one of the world's smallest sovereign nations, this European principality is the most densely populated country on Earth.
What is Monaco?
Clue: This brilliant 12th-century Muslim sultan and military leader famously recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187 and earned the deep respect of King Richard the Lionheart.
Clue: This adjective describes someone who is incredibly energetic, cheerful, and full of lively excitement.
What is Exuberant?
Clue: This iconic multi-sport stadium in Toronto, which opened in 1989 as the world's first stadium with a fully retractable motorized roof, was renamed the Rogers Centre in 2005.
What is the Skydome?