Geography
What Canadian province has five of the ten tallest trees in North America?
British Columbia
Which 1970s TV series was the first to feature a divorced, single, working woman as the central character?
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
What city did Freud settle in after Hitler came to power?
London
What brain operation was tried first on a confused 63-year-old female at George Washinton Hospital in 1956?
A Lobotomy
Which U.S. decathlete won gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and set a world record that stood for four years?
Bruce Jenner (now Caitlyn Jenner)
What was the world's highest man-made structure for 4,000 years?
The Great Pyramid of Giza
Which 1973 horror film became the first in its genre to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?
The Exorcist
What is the ancient language of India?
Sanskrit
What extinct birds were once so prolific that 18th-century American farmers fed them to pigs?
Which pitcher threw the first no-hitter in New York Mets history in 1969—the same year the team won its first World Series?
Tom Seaver
What nation is the top international destination for Japanese tourists?
The U.S.
Before going solo, which singer performed lead vocals on the 1971 hit “Mama Told Me (Not to Come)” with Three Dog Night?
Cory Wells
What was the first dam built afte the U.S. congress got involved in the production of hydroelectric power?
Boulder Dam
What herb is the most often-prescribed treatment in Germany for depression?
St. Johns Wort
Who became the first man in the Open Era to win all four Grand Slam tennis tournaments twice, completing the feat by 1984?
Jimmy Connors
What island do most of the North Atlantic Icebergs come from?
Greenland
Which Broadway musical, debuting in 1979, featured the tagline “Attend the tale…” and is known for its dark, operatic style?
Sweeney Todd
What English King introduced death by boiling and legalized the killing of gypsies?
Henry VIII
What disease were protesters referring to with signs reading "Silence = Death"?
AIDS
Which team won Super Bowl III in 1969, in one of the biggest upsets in NFL history, after its quarterback famously “guaranteed” the victory?
New York Jets
What Hawaiian Island was flattened by Hurrican Iniki?
Kauai
Which iconic British rock band released the concept album Quadrophenia in 1973?
The Who
What was closed to traffic after the Six Day War in 1967, and not reopened until 1975?
The Suez Canal
What insect depends the most upon sight, rather than sound, to locate mates?
The Firefly
What introductory phrase earned Michael Bumper fame in the boxing world?
"Lets get ready to rumble!"