The Offspring
Name the two Presidents of the U.S.A whose fathers also served as President.
George W. Bush and John Quincy Adams
This pepper is the most sold by number due to its small size and use in hot sauces, as well as being commonly ground up and put on pizza.
Cayenne Pepper
This famous green puppet loves trash and has an Israeli cousin who lives in a recycling bin.
Oscar the Grouch
After their last studio album in 2000, lead singer Zack de la Rocha left the band to start a solo career. The remaining members joined Chris Cornell, formerly of Soundgarden, to create this popular mid-2000's rock band.
Audioslave
Corn is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous people in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago. It is also called this.
Maize
This actress daughter of Jon Voight must have enjoyed seeming him be eaten in Anaconda, as they were estranged at the time.
Angelina Jolie
Only two original members of the Red Hot Chili Peppers remain in the band - name them.
Anthony Kiedis and Flea
Billy Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt changed their bands name from Sweet Children to Green Day in 1989, choosing the name because of their fondness for this plant.
Marijuana
Levers, pulleys, and incline planes are some examples of this physics concept, defined by Renaissance scientists, that use a mechanical advantage to multiply force.
Simple Machines
Brach's confections makes nearly 7 billion pieces of this tri-colored sweet annually - no word on how many of those pieces are actually eaten.
Candy Corn
This actress gave a wonderfully convincing performance in Get Out as the lying girlfriend - she must have had advice from her father, the former NBC News anchor who got in trouble for lying about his coverage of the Iraq War in 2003.
Allison Williams
Peppers are known as such because this idiot, one of the first Europeans to encounter the Capsicum fruit in the Caribbean, thought that it had a hot, spicy taste like the black pepper they were familiar with back home.
Christopher Columbus
The patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick, is celebrated on March 17th, where, among other things, revelers wear green. Legend tells that St. Patrick banished all of these creatures from Ireland, though scientific evidence shows that these creatures never lived in Ireland to begin with.
Snakes
hitchBOT, a hitchhiking robot that successfully traveled around Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands, was destroyed while traveling from Boston to San Francisco by unknown citizens of this city in 2015.
Philadelphia
This candied popcorn was introduced as a popular snack in 1896.
Cracker Jack
This "Black Sheep" son of a beloved actor (frequently featured in our trivia!) declared 2021 to be a "White Boy Summer" to much online fanfare, only to lose that goodwill when he disclosed he was too stupid to get vaccinated. Additional 50 points if you know his rap alter ego.
Chet Hanks / Chet Haze
This U.S. pepper was declared the hottest in the world in 2017, measuring at 2.2 million Scoville Heat Units. For comparison, jalapeno peppers have a maximum SHU of 8,000. Be careful - this pepper could kill you!
Carolina Reaper
This Jewish holiday, also known as the "Israeli Arbor Day", is celebrated by planting trees.
Tu BiShvat
The founders and workers at this company have clearly never watched a movie, or they would know better than to build robot versions of dogs, humans, and more to sell to militaries and police agencies around the world.
Boston Dynamics
Major League Baseball hosted a special in-season game in 2021 as a tribute to Field of Dreams at a ballpark built next door to the field used in the move in Dyersville, Iowa. The game featured these two American League teams.
New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox
Dexter Holland, the lead singer of the Offspring, received his PhD in 2017 after publishing a paper detailing the use of molecular biology to identify microRNA strands in this well known disease. Pretty fly for a white guy!
HIV
A "chili grenade" was developed by military scientists of this Asian country as a weapon similar to tear gas to use as crowd control. The grenade uses one of the world's spiciest peppers, called bhut jolokia, which measures at greater than 1 million Scoville Heat Units.
India
In Community's season one episode "Environmental Science", Dean Pelton commemorates Green Week by ironically changing Greendale College's name to this.
Envirodale
This futuristic science fiction story (recently remade into a movie) is notable for depicting a civilization that has banned all "thinking machines" including computers, robots, and artificial intelligence.
Dune
Korn's 2nd single from their 1997 album was called A.D.I.D.A.S., which in addition to being a funny acronym, was a reference to the band wearing Adidas tracksuits while performing. Because of the vulgar nature of the song, Adidas declined to sponsor the band, but this athletic wear competitor did, paying the band $500,000 in 1998.
Puma