Opening Lines
Holiday Season Music
Small Countries
Presidents Who Were Shot (and lived!)
Who Is Buried in Grant's Tomb?
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These two words open the 1979 Village People's song "YMCA."  (Sing it!)

What is "Young Man?"

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In 1949, Johnny Marks created a hit song about this nasally-illuminated animal.

What is Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer?

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This island country is the setting for much of the book and movie "Crazy Rich Asians."

What is Singapore?

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This two-term president was shot outside the Washington Hilton in 1981.

Who was Ronald Reagan?

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This U.S. president and his wife are buried at a New York City mausoleum site commonly referred to as "Grant's Tomb."

Who was Ulysses Grant?

800

These three words open the preamble to the U.S. Constitution.

What is "We the people?"

800

The Hanukkah song "Sevivon, sov sov sov" is about this spinning toy.

What is a dreidel?

800

This Pacific island nation shares its name with an American territory and a kind of Girl Scout cookies.

What is Samoa?

800

In his post-presidency, he was shot while campaigning again for the White House, and he declared after the 1912 incident, "It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. "

Who was Theodore Roosevelt?

800

This territory that became a state is the setting for the musical "Oklahoma."  (Sing it!)

What is "Oklahoma!"

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DAILY DOUBLE

These five words open the Edgar Allan Poe poem "The Raven."

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According to Internet legend, you've been "Wham!"-ed if you hear this 1984 song on the radio in December. (Sing it!)

What is "Last Christmas?"

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Until 1973, this small Central American country was called British Honduras.

What is Belize?

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DAILY DOUBLE

He was slashed by a sword during the the Revolutionary War, shot in 1806, and again in 1813, so it is no wonder that this general and two-term president was nicknamed "Old Hickory."

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In 1992, three brothers from this family formed the band Hanson.

What is Hanson?

1600

The line "I have this thing where I get older but just never wiser" opens this 2022 song by Taylor Swift.

What is "Anti-Hero?"

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Every year on Thanksgiving, several radio stations play this 18-minute song by Arlo Guthrie from 1967 about illegal solid waste disposal.

What is Alice's Restaurant?

1600

This Atlantic coast country is the smallest on the continent of Africa and borders only Sénégal.

What is The Gambia?

1600

At the Battle of Trenton in 1776, he was hit by a bullet that severed an artery, but it is "Doctrine" that you know he became president 40 years later.

Who was James Monroe?

1600

He was the inventor of the Tesla coil.

Who was Nikola Tesla?

2000

This four-word question opens and is frequently repeated in the 1957 Ayn Rand novel "Atlas Shrugged."

What is "Who is John Galt?"

2000

This German-born baroque composer premiered his oratorio "Judas Maccabaeus" in London in 1747.

Who was George Frederick Handel?

2000

Transnistria is a Russian-supported breakaway region of this small former Soviet republic that borders Ukraine and Romania.

What is Moldova?

2000

As a Union Army officer, he was shot and wounded five times starting in 1862, but survived to serve as president 15 years later.

Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?

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Doctor Willard Bliss, a 19th century medical practitioner who treated President Garfield, actually had this first name.

What was Doctor?

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