People & Places
What eastern European Country's name is a Slavonic word meaning "plain dwellers"?
Poland's
What was the only TV show of the 1980's to put its theme song atop Billboard's Hot 100?
Miami Vice
Who had a pistol in his hip pocket when he addressed the U.N. General Assembly in 1974?
Yasir Arafat
What bone connects your shoulder blade and elbow joint?
The Humerus
How old was France's Etienne Bacrat when he became the world's youngest chess grand master?
fourteen
what country officially limits women to one child?
China
Who had nine best-selling French albums before her first in English one in 1990?
Celine Dion
What future U.S. president claimed no thinking man in North America desired independence, in 1774?
George Washington
What food is the leading source of Salmonella poisoning?
Chicken
What's hyped in league ads as "the coolest game on Earth"?
Hockey
What nation has the world's largest military fighting force?
China
What late-night TV show did Entertainment Weekly dub "Mclaughin Group-meets-Match Game"?
Politically Incorrect
What did a ship called the Ancon travel through first, on August 15, 1914?
The Panama Canal
What did physicist Lord Rutherford discover inside the nucleus of the atom?
Protons
Whoes long jump record of 26 feet, eight-and-one-quarter inches, stood for 33 years?
Jesse Owens'
What river snakes through Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria?
The Danube
What game show fixture has a diameter of eight feet, six inches?
The Wheel of Fortune
What Asian nation admitted its banks held bad loans worth $614 billion, in 1998?
Japan
What living organism can be 30 time the size of a blue whale?
A giant Sequoia
Who drew groans in 1997 when he announced he'd seek a fourth term as IOC (international olympics committee) chief?
Juan Antonio Samaranch
What country reopened the notorious political prison camp, Perm 36, for tourists in 1997?
Russia
What four major showbiz awards were Rita Moreno and Barbra Streisand the first two women to collect a full set of?
Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
What book got Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn arrested for treason?
The Gulag Archipelago
What date was the "Y2K Bug" first expected to affect computers?
January 1, 2000
What Nicaraguan pitcher was nicknamed El Presidente?
Dennis Martinez