Classical Music
Beethoven's Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor for solo piano is most commonly known by this name, which translates into English as "For Elise."
Für Elise
The only state capital that shares a name with its state.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
How old was Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet"?
1. 13
2. 15
3. 17
4. Shakespeare doesn't say
13
Besides Queen Elizabeth II, she was the only other British monarch to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee, 60 years on the throne.
Queen Victoria
Ever since 1935, a team of accountants has spent an average of 1700 hours prior to this major Hollywood award ceremony counting ballots by hand.
The Oscars
On this planet, it can reach 8000 during the day, and -280 at night.
Mercury
Written by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, this orchestral interlude was intended to musically evoke the seemingly chaotic flying pattern of a specific insect.
The Flight of the Bumblebee
This capital city of Alabama has more than 30 zip codes.
Montgomery
In the Roy Rogers/Dale Evans Museum, you will find Roy's horse, Trigger, and Dale's horse:
1. Buttermilk
2. Daisy
3. Tulip
4. Flora
Buttermilk
At one time, Queen Elizabeth II had five of these dogs, believed to be her favorite breed.
Corgi
This accounting term is the only word in the English language with three connective sets of double letters.
Bookkeeping
The highest point on Earth is Mount Everest, at nearly 30,000 feet. It's lowest point is here, about 36,000 feet below sea level.
Mariana Trench
The overture to the opera Guillaume Tell was composed in 1829 by Gioachino Rossini, but has been most famously used as the theme music for The Lone Ranger in radio, television and film.
The William Tell Overtaure
Nestled in the southwest in the Valley of the Sun, this city is the most densely populated state capital in the US.
Phoenix, Arizona
Of the following four options, this is what did the "D" in "D-Day" stands for:
1. Dunkirk
2. Doom
3. Day
4. Destiny
Day
The designation was traditionally used for the date of any important military operation or invasion, according to the National World War II Museum. Thus, the day before June 6, 1944, was known as D-1, June 6 was D-Day, and the days after were D+1, D+2, D+3 and so on.
The fate of this British monarch’s wives were, in order: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
King Henry VIII
This 79-year old British rocker studied accounting and finance at the London School of Economics on a scholarship, and the world nearly missed out on more than 60 years of iconic rock and roll.
Mick Jagger
Rosalie Bradford was in the Guiness Book of World's Records for being the heaviest woman in the world at over 1000 pounds. Following the theme of extremes, you may be able to guess why she was in the book again, several years later.
The most weight lost (over 550 pounds)
Cartoon character Bugs Bunny once boasted of his piano playing prowess by saying he played this waltz in D-flat major, composed by Frederick Chopin in 1847, in less than sixty seconds.
The Minute Waltz
This city is the longest serving state capital, and the only state capital in the contiguous United States with an oceanic shoreline.
Boston, Massachusetts
She was the one who invented a frequency-hopping communication system and assisted the US military in the development of the radio controlled missile:
1. Veronica Lake
2. Hedy Lamarr
3. Lana Turner
4. Olive Deering
Hedy Lamarr
The Princes in the Tower, Edward V, young King of England and his brother, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York disappeared at the ages of 12 and 9 when this man, their uncle, took the throne for himself.
Richard III
This tax was originally introduced as a temporary measure by British Prime Minister, William Pitt the Younger, to help cover the cost of Britain's wars with France in January of 1799.
The Income Tax
The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was -500 in Verkhoyansk, Russia. The hottest was 134 in this American National Park.
Death Valley, Inyo County, California
This is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", a waltz composed by Johann Strauss II 1866.
The Blue Danube
This state capital shares its name with a major English channel port famed for its white cliffs.
Dover, Delaware
The original "Jersey" that the US state "New Jersey" took its name from is:
1. A British Island off the coast of France.
2. A Dutch province.
3. A Native American Indian Tribe.
4. A breed of small, hardy cattle.
A British Island off the coast of France.
This was a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, between 1455 and 1487.
The War of the Roses
You will find the rules and guidelines surrounding Employee Retirement Income Security Act plans in this Section and Paragraph of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.
Section 401, Paragraph K - hence the term 401(k)
This insect can pull 1,141 times their own body weight, making it the strongest creature on the planet, the equivalent of an average person pulling six fully loaded, double-decker buses.
The Dung Beetle