First Ladies
This "Queen of Soul" is the first woman elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on January 3, 1987
Aretha Franklin
This product is made from various ingredients such as: glass, bone, ash, quartz, and alabaster. The primary and main raw material, however, is kaolin, a clay mineral.
Porcelain
Sportwriter Dermot Mulroney eschews this age marriage pact with his best friend, New York Food Critic Julia Roberts to marry 20 year old college sophomore Cameron Diaz in My Best Friends Wedding.
28
This stately city has more miles of boulevards than Paris and more fountains than any city except Rome.
Kansas City
"Ma'am this is a _____" has become a stock response to any outré statement or rant, often deployed on Twitter, where outré statements and rants abound, to take them out of context and dunk on their perceived absurdity.
Wendy's
Katherine Graham took over leadership of this company in 1972, becoming the first woman to be CEO of this Fortune 500 Company. Under her leadership, the Washington Post famously broke the story of the Watergate scandal to the world.
The Washington Company
This regal pottery got it's start as commemorative bone-china pieces for Queen Victoria's 1897 Diamond Jubilee, and by 1904 had earned a Royal Warrant.
Royal Albert China
If you'll have what she's having, where are you? Bonus for 10 points, what did you both order?
Katz's Delicatessen, Corned Beef Sandwich
The world’s first nuclear power plant is located at the National Environmental and Engineering Laboratory in this gem of a state.
Idaho (The Gem State)
Home Style Meals is the motto for this fast food chain.
Boston Market
Frances Perkins, a sociologist and Progressive reformer in New York, served as the first female member of a presidential cabinet as this President's Secretary of Labor.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The blue, oriental designs on this pattern originally produced in 1790 by Spode, were marketed as Chinese folklore, frequently featuring a willow tree, bridge, teahouse and/or fruit trees. If a piece is an authentic Spode, it will have the name and pattern number on the bottom.
Willow Blue
Steve Martin, as small-town fire chief with a really big nose — and an even bigger brain helps hunky dolt Rick Rossovich woo stunning astronomer Daryl Hannah in an adaptation of this classic farce.
Cyrano De Bergerac
The only active diamond mine in the United States is in this "natural" state.
Arkansas, The Natural State
Western-style fast food in China is a relatively recent phenomenon, dating back only to 1987 when chain established its first outlet in Beijing where it offers many locally popular dishes such as fishball soup.
KFC
This author is the first women to win a pulitzer for fiction in 1921 for her novel, critiquing of the insularity and hypocrisy of the upper class in turn-of-the-century New York. The book has inspired several stage and screen adaptations, and writer Cecily Von Ziegesar has said that it was the model for her popular Gossip Girl series of books. Extra 10 points if you can name the book.
Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence.
This first lady is credited with spearheading the task of gathering and restoring china from previous administrations, which she eventually arranged within the mansion's private Family Dining Room.
Caroline Lavinia Harrison
Playing Loretta Castorini, a cautious widow set to get remarried to a bland fella when she has her heart stolen by his surly one-handed sibling, won an Academy Award for what actress?
Cher
In line with it's state motto "Equal Rights", this state’s was the first state to declare that “every woman of the age of twenty-one years, residing in this territory, may at every election…cast her vote.” in 1889. Voters of this state also elected the nation’s first female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross in 1924.
Wyoming
This founder knocked out a broom closet in the back of his father's tavern and sold his prized 1972 Z28 Camaro to purchase $1,600 worth of used pizza equipment, selling pizzas to the tavern's customers out of the converted closet.
"Papa" John Schnatter
This cosmonaut piloted the Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963, to become the first woman in space.
Valentina Tereshkova
Founded in the late 19th century in Trenton, New Jersey, this ceramic company was one of the first prominent ceramic companies in the United States, supplying orders for companies like Tiffany & Co. and Shreve & Co., and later providing sets for several U.S. presidents. In 1974 they introduced a festive line called Holiday, recognizable by the cream-colored porcelain, green holly leaves, bright red berries, and gold trim which will eventually be owned by Kelsey Callahan.
Lenox
This film made $241,438,208 in U.S. theaters, making it the highest-grossing romantic comedy in history. It's also the highest-grossing movie since at least 1982 to never be number one during any box office weekend.
This city is the only one in the United States to be bombed during World War II. (25 for City, 25 for State)
Boise City, Oklahoma was the only city in the United States to be bombed during World War II. On July 5, 1943, at approximately 12:30 a.m., a B-17 Bomber based at Dalhart Army Air Base (50 miles to the south of Boise City) dropped six practice bombs on the sleeping town.
It was not until 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, that the first fast food restaurant was born in the form of this restaurant, founded by short-order cook Walter Anderson and former reporter Edgar W. “Billy" Ingram
White Castle