Alphabet Round | N
Fruit with a smooth skin that is often referred to as a “shaved peach” or “fuzzless peach” due to its lack of short hairs.
What is a Nectarine?
TWO-WORD ANSWER - The city of Truth or Consequences can be found in this U.S. state.
What is New Mexico?
Which college beat Ohio State University in the first NCAA March Madness tournament? Ohio State would return the favor by defeating this school for the first College Football Playoff National Championship in 2014.
University of Oregon Ducks
What is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra?
Double bass
American singer-songwriter best known for her time as a lead vocalist in Fleetwood Mac alongside her then-boyfriend Lindsey Buckingham.
Who is (Stevie) Nicks?
TWO-WORD ANSWER - English term for the Aurora Borealis.
What are the Northern Lights?
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre was orchestrated by which criminal nicknamed “Scarface?”
Al Capone
The Koch snowflake and Mandelbrot set are two of the most-famous examples of what geometric figures that exhibit repeating patterns at progressively smaller scales?
Fractals
TWO-WORD ANSWER - Name of the operation which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.
What is (Operation) Neptune Spear?
Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet during WWII who served as the U.S. signatory to the Japanese surrender.
Who is (Chester) Nimitz?
What 1975 musical that won seven Tony Awards is a retelling of the most-famous work of L. Frank Baum in the context of modern African-American culture?
The Wiz: The Super Soul Musical “Wonderful Wizard of Oz”
Which Shakespearean character tells her husband “screw your courage to the sticking place” in order to convince him to murder King Duncan?
Lady Macbeth
Japanese multinational automobile manufacturer whose current models include the Murano, Rogue and Versa.
What is Nissan?
MULTI-WORD ANSWER - Newspaper whose motto is “All the news that’s fit to print.”
What is (The) New York Times?
Which term refers to the temperature and pressure at which all three phases of an element exist together in equilibrium?
Triple point
What brother of Eris is the Greek god of war?
Ares
In Greek mythology, this type of female spirit or nymph presides over fountains and springs. They were the counterparts of the Nereids and Oceanids.
What is/are Naiad(s)?
Former Governor of Arizona that served as Secretary of Homeland Security under President Obama from 2009-13 before resigning and becoming the President of the University of California system, a position she still holds.
Who is (Janet) Napolitano?
In a drawer with three red socks and two blue socks, what are the odds of pulling out a blue sock at random, replacing it, and pulling out a blue sock at random again?
Four twenty-fifths or Four over twenty-five or Four out of twenty-five
In Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, the fictional town of Catfish Row is supposed to be a suburb of what South Carolina city that shares its name with the capital of West Virginia?
Charleston