History
This US State was admitted to the Union in 1816 as the 20th state.
What is Mississippi?
This capital city is the highest in the world, at 11,975 ft. above sea level.
What is La Paz?
Introduced in 2007, this measurement scale is a way to judge how destructive a tornado is based on ground damage.
What is the Enhanced Fujita scale?
This 200 lap stock car race is NASCAR's biggest event during the racing season.
What is the Daytona 500?
This phrase is an iconic line spoken by the Evil Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, spoken at a mirror on the wall.
What is "Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"
This disease is thought to have contributed to the demise of sailors exploring the Arctic on the HMS Erebus and Terror.
What is Tuberculosis?
This city holds the title of the oldest continuously inhabited city globally.
What is Jericho?
This company introduced the first commercially available lithium-ion battery in 1991.
What is Sony?
This Neil Diamond song is played in the eighth inning of every Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park.
What is Sweet Caroline?
This film had the first on screen toilet flush in cinema history.
What is Psycho?
Earning her license in 1921, this American aviator was the first Black woman to hold an international pilot's license.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
This US State has only two sets of escalators.
What is Wyoming?
More commonly known as TNT, this compound is used in military explosives, underwater blasting, and industrial demolition.
What is Trinitrotoluene?
BASE jumping is an extreme sport where participants leap off of one of many tall structures, usually at a height much closer than they would from an airplane. What does the acronym BASE stand for?
What is Buildings, Antennas, Spans, and Earth?
This film critic was the first to win a Pulitzer Prize for his movie reviews.
Who is Roger Ebert?
This ancient kingdom, located in modern-day Sudan, ruled over Egypt during the 25th Dynasty.
What is Kush?
This mountain is considered the furthest point from the center of the earth.
What is Chimborazo?
The half life of this isotope is 5,730 years.
What is Carbon-14?
This annual off-road race crosses the entirety of the Sahara Desert.
What is the Dakar Rally?
This 1927 musical holds the historical distinction of being the first "talkie," featuring synchronized dialogue sequences.
What is The Jazz Singer?
The Bretton Woods Agreement, which established the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, was signed in this year.
What is 1944?
This country was named after the amount of prawns that were found in its rivers.
What is Cameroon?
Existing near absolute zero, this exotic state of matter is defined by the simplification of the quantum mechanical behavior of its components, which can be treated as having coalesced into a single macroscopic wavefunction.
This future U.S. Vice President once played against the Green Bay Packers in an NFL game.
Who is Gerald Ford?
In every scene of the 1999 film Fight Club, this specific coffee chain's cup is hidden somewhere in the frame.
What is Starbucks?