Geography/history
What cabinet member copped Esquire's 1983 Dubious Achievement Award for his service to black people, women, jewish people, and disabled people?
James Watt
What is the top speed of The Beach Boy's Little Deuce Coupe?
140
What title character in a Shakspeare work notes: "I am a constant Northern Star"?
Julius Caesar
What is a "Drinker respirator" better known as?
An iron lung
What have you not let a tennis ball do if you volley?
bounce
What island in the Indian Ocean are you hoping to fly to the northern tip of if your baggage tags read DIE?
Madagasgar
Who was born first- Hope or Crosby?
Hope
What does the title character in Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina die under?
What organic fuel do bog-dwellers use a slane to cut?
Peat
What monopoly railroad is landed on the most?
The B&O
What did Mark Twain describe as "the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean"?
The Hawaiian Islands
Who notes in song: "Short People got no reason to live"?
Randy Newman
What does Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross equate with the final stage of growth in the title of a 1975 book?
Death
What was the first privately owned satellite?
Telstar
What Birthright, Texas, native, described by Vince Lombardi as the finest player he'd ever seen, became coach of the greenbay packers?
Forrest Gregg
What kind of water flows from a greek tap bearing the letter K?
cold water
What box office dud starred Olivia Newton-John as the reincarnated Greek Muse Terpsichore?
Xanadu
What British Humorist noted : "A woman will never flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on?"
Oscar Wilde
How many zeros are there in a trillion
12
What Japanese parlor game gave North America the word "Atari"?
GO
What service takes its motto from Herodotus's glowing descriptioon of Persian king Darius's courier system?
The US Postal Service
Whose father ran the Gillis Grocery Store?
Dobie Gillis's
Who figured out how to win friends and influence people?
Dale Carnegie
What is the wind-blown plant called the Russian Thistle better known as?
Tumble-weed
What spicy spiker of bloody Marys is bottled in New Iberia, Louisiana?
Tabasco