Sports
Question: Who was the first Major League player to pitch a ball over 100 mph?
Answer: Nolan Ryan. DD**
Which planet is known as the "Red Planet"?
Answer: Mars DD**
What was the 1st year of Octoberfest?
1810 Oct 12th DD**
What was the original name for candy corn?
Answer: Chicken Feed DD**
Which movie does the line “Do you like scary movies?” come from?
Answer: In the 1996 film Scream, the phone voice (played by Roger Jackson) asked the question to Sidney Prescott.
Question: What team gets the advantage of the first bat?
Answer: The visiting team. Extra 200
What is the nickname for Warren Buffett, one of the most successful investors in the world?
The Oracle of Omaha add 200
What is the Octoberfest Theme song?
Ein Prosit extra 200
Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?
Answer: This might come as a surprise, but it's a fruit! Anything that starts as a flower, like a pumpkin, becomes a fruit. DD**
This hotel, which inspired Stephen King's "The Shining," is frequently called one of America's most haunted places. Reports include phantom piano playing, disembodied footsteps, and the ghosts of the hotel's founders. What is the name of it?
The Stanley Hotel (Estes Park, Colorado):
Question: What team won 3 Super Bowls in the 1990s?
Answer: The Dallas Cowboys. Extra 100
What city is nicknamed the "City of a Thousand Minarets"?
Answer: Cairo add 200
What is Schnaps?
A distilled Beverage extra 200
What brings the three Sanderson sisters back from the dead in the Halloween film Hocus Pocus?
Answer: The Black Flame Candle, made from the fat of a hanged man, has the magical powers to bring them back to Salem, Massachusetts 200**
What famous person helped set up October festival, helping to set up one of the beer tents in 1896.
Albert Einstein
Question: Which team has the record of scoring the most points in a single Super Bowl?
Answer: The San Francisco 49ers.
The Beluga whale is nicknamed what, due to its loud calls?
sea canary
What is the legal drinking age in germany?
16
Which candy was handed out to soldiers during the Korean War?
Answer: Launched way back in 1907, Tootsie Rolls were accidentally air-dropped to American troops in battle in the Korean War. The troops went on to praise the candies for keeping them nourished and even plugging bullet holes in vehicles and equipment, which would seal as the candies froze in the frigid temperatures.
Which country holds the record for the largest pumpkin ever?
Answer: Italy! Grown in 2021, the pumpkin weighed in at a whopping 1,226 kilograms (just shy of 2,702 pounds) and measured 11 feet 8 inches in diameter.
What was the most number of innings played in MLB history?
26 (Boston & Brooklyn)
What nickname was given to Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the UK?
Answer: The Iron Lady
How many ounces is a germany beer stein?
33.8 ounces, or 1 liter
Who first sang the song "Monster Mash"?
Answer: Bobby Prickett first released the song in 1962 on a LP with other monster-themed tunes, and "Monster Mash" was No. 1 on the Billboard Top 100 that year October 20-27.
Question: Which NFL team has their logo located on only one side of their helmets?
Answer: Pittsburgh Steelers.