Movies
This 2002 film featured Nia Vardalos as a woman rebelling against her parents' wishes that she marry someone who is Greek.
What is My Big Fat Greek Wedding?
This U.S. national park suffered lightning-created fires across one-third of its surface in 1988, before snow doused the flames.
What is Yellowstone?
This movie star popularized the Hummer when he bought the first two civilian models that rolled off the assembly line, in October 1992.
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
In 2009, this tech company introduced the Wave, an advanced email system that was abandoned just one year later.
What is Google?
This athlete, whose first name is reminiscent of a Greek god, amazed the world with his speed skating in Salt Lake City in 2002.
Who is Apolo Ohno?
This actor played the one-million-dollars-seeking Dr. Evil in the groovy hit comedy Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery in 1997.
Who is Mike Myers?
These two countries are connected by the "Chunnel".
What are France and the United Kingdom?
*The Channel Tunnel opened in 1994
This radio show host first partnered with news anchor Robin Quivers when he landed a gig in Washington, D.C. in 1981.
Who is Howard Stern?
This item was purchased for $168 million on ebay by a super wealthy Russian businessman in 2006.
*Plane, Yacht, or a Railcar
What is a Yacht?
This U.S. tennis player beat her younger sister in straight sets at the U.S. Open in 2001, in their first Grand Slam final together.
Who is Venus Williams?
*She also won at Wimbledon beating Justine Henin in three sets.
This James Cameron sci-fi movie, released in 1991, launched the immortal catchphrase "Hasta la vista, baby"
What is Terminator 2: Judgment Day?
The fossil of Sue the T.rex, the most complete T.rex ever uncovered was foun din 1990 in this U.S. state, also home to Mount Rushmore.
What is South Dakota?
"Motormouth" John Moschitta talked really, really fast in ads for this delivery service company.
*UPS, FedEx, or the U.S. Postal Service
What is FedEx?
This company was purchased by eBay in 2002 to replace Billpoint as the online auction site's preferred payment method.
What is PayPal?
*In 2020, eBay started using a different payment platform
This Cleveland Cavaliers superstar became the youngest player to score a triple-double, in a 2005 game against the Portland Trail Blazers.
Who is LeBron James?
*He scored double digits in points, rebounds, and assists in one game.
This movie stars a mouse named Fievel who gets separated from his family during a journey from Russia to America in the late 1800s.
What is An American Tail?
This European country was split into two separate nations in 1993, in an amicable parting referred to as "The Velvet Divorce".
What is Czechoslovakia?
Supermodel and music star Grace Jones was born here.
*England, Jamaica, or Brooklyn
What is Jamaica?
Open Web designer Chris Messina used this Twitter "first" in a 2007 tweet.
* A Hashtag, The @ symbol, or A Retweet
What is a Hashtag?
*The tweet read: "How do you feel about using # for groups?"
In 2007 this third baseman for the Yankees became the youngest MLB player to score 500 home runs.
Who is Alex Rodriguez?
*His dad was a former pro catcher in the Dominican Republic.
This is the middle initial of advertising and movie character Ernest Worrell, best known for the Ernest movies.
What is P?
*It stands for "Power Tools"
This small city in Tennessee is home to the 700-acre farm that plays host to arts and music festival Bonnaroo every June.
What is Manchester?
*After debuting in 2002, Bonnaroo quickly became one of America's largest music festivals
This Cuban boy was the sole survivor of a 1999 ocean escape to Florida and was caught in a custody battle between his relatives in both countries.
Who is Elian Gonzalez?
*Seven months later the case was settled, and he was reunited with his father in Cuba
This crowdsourcing website was launched in 2009 to fund creative projects, winning the 2014 Webby Award for Breakout of the Year.
What is Kickstarter?
This slugger hit his 500th home run in April 2003, joining 17 other players in the "500 Club" (while also becoming its first Latino member)
Who is Sammy Sosa?