Colorado
There are several mountains over 14,000 feet in height in Colorado; this is the tallest.
What is Mt. Elbert?
There are 52 mountain peaks above 14,000 ft (4,268m) in Colorado ("fourteeners" as mountain climbers call them) and Mt. Elbert is the highest at 14,433 ft (4,400 m).
In 2015, NASA confirmed the existence of liquid water on this planet.
What is Mars?
This book retailer jumped into the e-reader biz in 2009 with its Nook tablet, which featured a color touchscreen and built-in Wi-Fi.
What is Barnes & Noble?
This was the first food grown in space.
What are Spring onions?
This two-lane road from Chicago to L.A., a 2,400+mile avenue to "get your kicks" on, was historically decommissioned as a highway, in 1985.
What is Route 66?
The name of Mesa County is from the Spanish word "mesa", which means this.
What is "table"?
The county is named for the several plateau- or table-top (mesa: table (Old Spanish; from Latin "mensa") mountains in the area. The world's largest table-top mountain, The Grand Mesa, lies along the eastern border of Mesa County.
Warmer water temperatures caused a massive coral-bleaching event in 2016, off the shores of this country.
What is Australia?
A large portion of the Great Barrier Reef coral turned white.
This city is the setting for the 1994 best-seller Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was released as a film, in 1997.
What is Savannah?
The book spent a record-breaking 216 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list.
This fruit was classified as a vegetable for tax purposes after an 1893 Supreme Court ruling.
What is the tomato?
This Ancient Roman site had 6.9 million visitors in 2010, many giving a thumbs up to the panoramic view from its newly opened upper ring.
What is the Colosseum?
One of the features at the base of the Rocky Foothills are a series of steep-sided peaks which rise above the town. These peaks are called this.
What are The Flatirons?
There are officially five "Flatirons" numbered one to five. The name was given by a pioneer who noted they looked like five irons (used for ironing cloths) standing upright.
In 2017, this celestial event was the first since 1918 to follow a path from coast to coast in the U.S..
What is a Total Solar Eclipse?
The path of totality went from oregon to South Carolina.
Will in the World, picked by Time magazine as the best nonfiction book of 2004, is about this writer.
Who is William Shakespeare?
Cilantro taste like this to those who have a mutation in the OR6A2 gene.
What is soap?
Known for welcoming vacationing college students, what Florida city is called the "Spring Break Capital"?
Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, or Panama City
What is Panama City?
Fort Lauderdale actually passed anti-spring break laws in 1986.
What Western Colorado town is famous for its peaches?
What is Palisade?
Palisade has the best peaches in the state and area.
In 2011, this kind of surgical, full transplant was performed for the first time in the U.S..
What is a Face transplant?
He wrote the 2001 novel Life of Pi.
Who is Yann Martel?
This fruit is sometimes referred to as the "alligator pear".
What is an avocado?
An avocado is biologically a fruit. Botanists classify the avocado as a single-seeded berry.
This island was the birthplace of the parents of Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court judge, confirmed in 2009.
What is Puerto Rico?
Colorado boasts it has the world's highest this.
What is a Suspension bridge?
The Royal Gorge bridge rises 1,053 feet above the Arkansas River.
This supermassive space object, showing a bright ring with a dark center, was photographed by scientists for the very first time in 2019.
What is a Black Hole?
The image was captured through an international network of radio telescopes.
This Holocaust survivor, also the author of the acclaimed 1960 book Night, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
Who is Elie Wiesel?
Hawaiian pizza was actually invented in this country.
What is Canada?
Invented in 1962 by Sam Panopoulos a Greek-born Canadian cook in his Satellite Restaurant in Chatham Ontario Canada.
The wildly popular smartphone game Angry Birds originated in this Nordic country in 2009.
What is Finland?