Geography
Sierra Leone is in this continent.
What is Africa?
The Galapagos Islands take their name from this creature.
What is a tortoise?
In 1918, Maryland designated this flower as its state flower.
What is the black-eyed Susan?
This is considered tennis's most illustrious championship.
What is the Wimbledon?
This chemical element, represented by the letter K, is abundant in bananas.
What is Potassium?
This river forms the Pennsylvania-New Jersey border.
What is the Delaware River?
A "normal" human has 23 pairs.
What are chromosomes?
Established in 1637, this is the oldest county in Maryland.
What is St. Mary's County?
This Italian game resembles lawn bowling.
What is Bocci?
This day of the week is named after the Norse god of thunder.
What is Thursday? (Thor's Day)
The largest lake in Africa.
What is Lake Victoria?
This is the percentage of people whose IQ is above 100.
What is 50%?
This nickname was given to Maryland for refusing to support Prohibition during the 1920s.
What is "The Free State"?
The point value of the letter 'Q' in the crossword game Scrabble.
What is ten?
According to legend, this creature had the body of a lion, the head of a woman, and eats all creatures unable to answer its questions.
What is the sphinx?
The capital of Missouri.
What is Jefferson City?
A heliologist studies this.
What is the sun?
Born in Baltimore in 1908, this Civil Rights lawyer became the first African American U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This golfer was the first to win $100,000 in one year.
Who is Arnold Palmer?
The only even prime number.
What is 2?
These four countries boast half the world's population.
[Note: Question from Trivial Pursuit "Genus" Edition, copyright 1981]
What are China, India, the United States, and the U.S.S.R.?
This caused 20 million deaths in 1918.
What is the (Spanish) Influenze?
In 1830, Maryland saw the operation of this first‑chartered railroad in the U.S., running to Ellicott City.
What is the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad?
The city where the Sugar Bowl is played.
What is New Orleans?
There are this many sheets of paper in a ream.
What is 500?
This peninsula is shared by Spain and Portugal.
What is the Iberian peninsula?
He developed the first Polio vaccine.
Who is Dr. Jonas E. Salk?
This battle in 1814 inspired Francis Scott Key to write “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
What is the Battle of Ft. McHenry?
In baseball...a "battery".
Who are the pitcher and catcher?
The guardsmen of the British royal palace are known by this name.
What are Beefeaters?
Excluding Alaska, this US state has had below-zero weather for the longest period of time.
What is North Dakota?
This type of vision is achieved when both eyes focus on an object at the same time, each eye seeing the object from a slightly different angle.
What is binocular vision?
Fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, MD, this was the bloodiest single day in American military history.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The biggest selling toy of 1957.
What is the hula hoop?
Inspired by a fashion survey entitled "Ten Best-Dressed Women", this person came up with the idea for the "Ten Most Wanted" criminal list.
Who is J. Edgar Hoover?
The country producing most of the world's diamonds.
What is Russia?
This compound is formed when a base reacts with an acid.
What is a salt?
Born in Spain, but raised in Maryland from the age of 12, this was the Union's top general during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who is General George Meade?
Another name for a natatorium.
What is a swimming pool?
In 1897, this US city was the first to have a subway.
What is Boston?
The capital of Columbia.
What is Bogotá?
Its name is derived from light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
What is a laser beam?
The two state sports of Maryland: One established in 1962; and the second in 2004.
Jousting & Lacrosse.
This term describes changing directions while yachting.
What is "tacking"?
The name for Islam's ninth month - the month of fasting.
What is Ramadan?
The source of the Nile River is found in this country.
What is Uganda?
The word "vaccine" is named for this animal.
What is a cow? (From the Latin: "vaca")
Born in Calvert County in 1777, this Maryland native served as the fifth Chief Justice of the United States.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
The location of the 1960 Summer Olympics.
What is Rome?
The brief description carved into the tablet the Statue of Liberty is holding.
What is "JULY IV MDCCLXXVI"?