Music
In 1987 she became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
The long-awaited D.C. memorial to this war opened to the public in 1982, with thousands of its veterans marching to the site.
What is the Vietnam War?
This animal, native to China was downgraded from endangered to vulnerable on the Red List of Threatened Species in 2016.
What is the Giant Panda?
This New York City museum nearly doubled its capacity in 2004 and is the home of Van Gogh's masterpiece, The Starry Night.
What is the Museum of Modern Art?
The Notebook, a 1996 book by Nicholas Sparks, takes place in this East Coast state that is also the site of the Wright Brothers' first flight.
What is North Carolina?
The song "Goodbye England's Rose" was played on September 6, 1997, and heard by over 2.5 billion viewers simultaneously in this iconic church.
What is Westminster Abbey?
*Elton John performed the song once: at Princess Diana's funeral
Pope Francis is the first pope to be elected from this continent.
What is South America?
Massive, mysterious craters began appearing in this Arctic region of Russia in 2014, raising fears about climate change.
What is Siberia?
This California park is home to the 379ft high tree named Hyperion one of the tallest trees in the world which was discovered in a remote area in 2006.
What is the Redwood National Park?
*The redwood's exact location is a well-guarded secret
In the 1997 book Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom traveled to this U.S. state for his visits with Morrie.
What is Massachusetts?
This soundtrack to a Kevin Costner flick was the top-selling album of the 1990s in the U.S.
What is The Bodyguard?
What is 7?
*They are the first surviving set of septuplets to be born
The world's human population reached this incredible milestone in 2011.
* 6 billion, 7 billion, or 8 billion
What is 7 billion?
*It's expected to reach around 8.5 billion in 2030
This part of Miami Beach lent its name to a diet made famous by cardiologist Arthur Agatston, whose 2003 book was a big success.
What is South Beach?
*The South Beach Diet is a modified low-carbohydrate diet
This is the more well-known name of Karol Jozef Wojtyla who wrote the nonficiton best-seller Crossing the Threshold of Hope.
Who is Pope John Paul ll?
This New York club, known for introducing 1970s and 1980s rock bands, was originally opened for country, bluegrass, and blues music.
What is CBGB?
*The letters stand for "Country BlueGrass Blues
This cable channel, owned by A&E, was launched in 1995 with the tagline "Where the Past Comes Alive".
What is The History Channel?
Some people believed the Mayan calendar predicted the apocalypse would take place on December 21 of this year.
What is 2012?
The Burj Khalifa stands at 2,716.5 ft and is more than 160 stories tall is found in this Middle Eastern city.
What is Dubai?
*It stood as the world's tallest building when it was completed in 2008
The profession of Stephanie Plum in the best-selling book series introduced by Janet Evanovich in 1994.
* Doctor, Detective, or Bounty Hunter
What is Bounty hunter?
This artist broke the record for the highest-grossing U.S. tour of all time with her Reputation Stadium Tour in 2018.
Who is Taylor Swift?
*The tour brought in $266.1 million.
This 78-acre retail establishment, the largest of its kind in the U.S. to date, opened in Minnesota in 1992 and boasted nearly 10,000 employees.
What is the Mall of America?
This is the mainstream nickname for the Higgs boson, the elusive particle that scientists finally detected in 2012.
What is the God particle?
This country was the first to ban all cigarette smoking in the workplace, including in pubs and restaurants.
What is Ireland?
This Frank McCourt memoir of his poverty-stricken childhood in Ireland was released in 1996 and won a Pulitzer Prize a year later.
What is Angela's Ashes?