Sports
The Lakers and which other team are tied for the most NBA championships, with 17?
Celtics
Which element has the abbreviation ‘Hg’?
Mercury
Because of their uniforms, what colorful nicknames were given to British troops during the revolutionary war?
redcoats
Which country is bordered by France, Portugal, and Andorra?
Spain
In which state would you find the headquarters of Apple, Wells Fargo, Taco Bell, and Chipotle?
California
Which NHL team plays in a stadium nicknamed ‘The Igloo’?
Penguins
What’s the longest bone in the human body?
Femur
Who was the third president of the USA?
Thomas Jefferson
What’s the tallest mountain range in South America called?
Andes
Which author wrote Carrie, Salem’s Lot, The Shining, Pet Sematary, Misery, and The Green Mile?”
Stephen King
Which country has won the most women’s World Cups in soccer?”
USA
ho invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses?
Ben Franklin
Minotaur was a creature in Greek mythology that was half man and half what?
Bull
Which of these major US cities is NOT a state capital: Phoenix, Nashville, Philadelphia, Denver, Atlanta?
Philadelphia
What product was banned from advertising on TV and radio in 1971?
cigarettes
Which baseball star made his film debut in 2010 in The Other Guys?
Derek Jeter
Which branch of science is devoted to the study of heat and related phenomena?
Thermodynamics
Who married Anne Hathaway when he was just 18?
William Shakespeare
The Cape of Good Hope’ is the southern tip of which continent?
Africa
Ruby is the birthstone of which month?
July
Who is the only athlete to ever play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series?
Deion Sanders
In Einstein’s famous equation E=mc squared, what does the ‘c’ represent?
speed of light
What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
What’s the easternmost Canadian province?
Newfoundland
BackRub was the original name of which company?