Planes, Trains, and Cars
Ohio declares itself the "Birthplace of Aviation," however, the first flight of the Orville brothers took place in this city in North Carolina in 1903.
What is Kitty Hawk?
This iconic water attraction features over 1,214 individual nozzles and cost $40 million.
What are the Bellagio Fountains?
The name of this play by Shakespeare is itself considered to be cursed.
What is Macbeth? or The Scottish Play?
This witch flies in a mortar and lives in a hut on chicken legs.
Who is Baba Yaga?
The venomous platypus is one of five existing Monotremes (mammals which lay eggs), the other four of family Tachyglossidae are commonly known as this.
What is/are Echidna?
This rail project was completed in 1869 at Promontory Summit.
What is the [First] Transcontinental Railroad?
This major construction project, completed in 1935, took just four years and sheltered Las Vegas from the Great Depression.
What is the Hoover Dam?
This English writer kept the heart of her deceased husband in her desk.
Who is Mary Shelley?
Point Pleasant, West Virginia is home to this iconic flying cryptid.
What is The Mothman?
While the Apple Macintosh widely popularized the Graphic User Interface (GUI), the first personal computer with a GUI was released by this tech company in 1973.
What is Xerox?
This "M" auction house, founded in 1988, specializes in collector and classic cars.
What is Mecum?
A city with many nicknames, visitors from Hawai'i might refer to Las Vegas as this.
What is the Ninth Island?
This famous American poet reached the rank of Sergent Major, and was court-martialed in 1931 for gross neglect of duty and disobedience of orders for refusing to attend formations, classes, and church.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
From the makers of the board game Monopoly, this game features a board piece called a planchette.
What is Ouija? or What is a Ouija board?
Like the acronym for RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging), the LASER acronym stands for this.
What is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation?
This car was the first individual model to be named Motor Trends' Car of the Year, in 1958.
What is Ford Thunderbird?
Infamous mobster Bugsy Siegel supervised construction of this casino, after its developer ran out of funds in 1946.
What is the Flamingo?
"Doubleplus-," "thoughtcrime" and "memory hole" are terms you'd hear in this fictional language of Orwell's 1984.
What is Newspeak?
Superstitious folk may avoid getting caught out at night during this time period.
What is the Witching Hour?
Most famous for his equation of Mass-Energy equivalence (E=MC2), Albert Einstein's only Nobel Prize was awarded for this discovery in 1921.
What is the Photoelectric Effect?
This American aviator was the first woman to break the sound barrier on May 18, 1953, flying a Canadian Sabre 3 after the USAF refused her request for an F-86.
Who is Colonel Jacqueline Cochran?
This Nevada state park, located just outside Las Vegas, encompasses nearly 46,000 acres of bright red sandstone.
What is Valley of Fire State Park?
A 1879 novel featuring brothers Dimitri, Ivan, and Alexei is the final work of this author.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This 81 year old farmer refused to enter into a plea during the Salem Witch Trials, and expired after three days of Peine forte et dure.
Who is Giles Corey?
This Nobel laureate was the first person to be honored in two separate scientific fields in 1903 and 1911.
Who is Marie Curie?