History
What country's holidays include Discovery Day, Natal Day and Fete Nationale?
Canada
What Wisconsin city was named after the fourth U.S. president?
Madison
What falling fruit supposedly inspired Isaac Newton to write the laws of gravity?
Apple
What flower is worn as a symbol of remembrance for Memorial Day?
Red Poppies
What country star changed his first name from Randall to Hank?
Hank Williams Jr.
What general was enjoying an embassy luncheon in Tokyo when he learned he'd been sacked?
Douglas MacArthur
What title would you hold in Germany if townsfolk addressed you as Burgermeister?
Mayor
What is the least expensive and most popular fruit?
Bananas
In what style should American Flags be flown on Memorial Day from Sunrise to Noon?
Half-Staff
What 1970 hit movie was banned on military bases for "reducing the conventions and paraphernalia of war to total idiocy"?
M*A*S*H
What did Elizabeth I have removed from her palaces when her hair thinned and her cheeks hallowed?
Mirrors
What Italian city is considered "the fashion capital of the world"?
Milan
What method of arranging elements into related groups was invented by Dmitri Mendeleyev?
The periodic table
On average 800 ____ ______ are consumed every second in America on Memorial Day.
Hot Dogs
What talk show host paid USSR four cartons of Marlboros to be on his show?
David Letterman
What did Richard Nixon forbid at White House fetes after he spilled it on his vest during his first state dinner?
Soup
What state celebrates Lei Day in lieu of May Day?
Hawaii
What sea creatures upper lip moves much like the trunk of an elephant?
The Manatee's
After what war did Memorial Day become a holiday, originally honoring fallen Union soldiers?
The Civil War
What former general posted the highest score on Celebrity Jeopardy in November of 1994?
Norman Schwarzkopf
What did De Beer diamonds worth 5 million pounds go down with in 1912?
The Titanic
What two U.S. states are home for the long-living bristlecone pine trees?
California and Nevada
What computer outfit has "campus" headquarters at Redmond, Washington?
Microsoft
The National Moment of Remembrance takes place, locally, at what time?
3pm
What Mary Shelley work was published anonymously in 1818?
Frankenstein
What animals helped connect ropes and cables for the Grand Coulee Dam by squeezing through drainpipe's with strings tied to their tails?
Cats
What disgraced vice president's highs school yearbook quote read: "An ounce of wit is worth a pound of sorrow"?
Spiro Agnew's
What body orifice are you able to talk through if you can "snoach"?
The Nose
What kind of Jets flew over Grants Pass, on May 27th, 2024?
F-15 Eagle Fighter Jets
What opera's 1816 premiere had Rossini running from the theatre, fearing he'd be assassinated?
The Barber of Seville's
What professionals did Ronald Reagan fire 12,000 of in August, 1981?
Air Traffic Controllers
What name, describing an ideally perfect place, actually means "no place" in Greek?
Utopia
What contains more protein? Four ounces of Gruyere cheese or nine ounces of meat?
The Cheese
The first Memorial Day parade was held in 1868 in Ohio, in what town did it take place?
Ironton
What TV psychologist saw patients at Chicago's Rampo Medical Arts building?
Bob Hartley
What superpower's 1991 plotters were derided as "the gang that couldn't coup straight?
The Soviet Union's
What country's defense sector has offered tourists rides on obsolete T-84 tanks?
Russia's
What Greek wrote Meteorologica, popularizing that name for the study of weather?
Aristotle
Memorial Day was originally known as ____________ Day.
Decoration Day
What John Steinbeck book notes: "Okie use' to mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're scum"?
The Grapes of Wrath
The Atomic Age
Isolated in 1945 during the Manhattan Project, this element changed the course of history and defined the Atomic Age.
What is plutonium?