Midwest States
The 1893 world’s fair, called The World’s Columbian Exposition, took place in this Midwest state.
What is Illinois?
This is the largest compilation of the English language ever created. Today it contains over 600,000 word and is continuously growing.
What is the Oxford English Dictionary?
also known as the sea parrot, this aquatic bird can carry up to 10 small fish crosswise in its triangular beak
What is a Puffin?
German WWI Fighter Pilot Manfred Von Richtofen
Who is the Red Baron?
This girl's name is also a popular shoe (can be dressy or casual) with a single strap across the instep.
What is Mary Jane?
Originally called the Utah/US Film Festival, it was renamed The Sundance Film Festival for this actor who played The Sundance Kid and his Sundance Institute took over the production.
Who is Robert Redford?
This word comes from the Latin for a junction of three roads, which were common meeting spots where news and small talk occurred, leading to its modern meaning of insignificant knowledge.
What is Trivia?
The first public kindergarten in the United States was in this city known as the gateway to the West.
What is St Louis?
This B word is a cited list of books or articles located at the end of a scholarly work that refers to the other works used to complete the piece.
What is a bibliography?
The American white variety of this bird can hold three gallons of water in its bill; its bill has a larger capacity than its stomach.
What is a pelican?
Mary Mallon – born in Ireland in 1869, emigrated to the USA in 1884; kept in isolation in New York from 1915 until her death in 1938.
Who is Typhoid Mary?
This type of dress shoe, laced at the top of the instep, was named for an English city and University
What is an Oxford?
After 40 plus years in Park City, Utah, the festival announced it will move to this Colorado city (about 30 miles NW of Denver) in 2027.
What is Boulder?
This country has the most bookshops per capita. And also about 4 1/2 sheeps per person.
What is New Zealand?
In the High Plains Region of this state, you will find Carhenge, a replica of Stonehenge, but instead of standing stones, it's formed of vintage American automobiles.
This website was created in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. Its a collaborative online encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to and gets its name from the Hawaiian word for fast
What is Wikipedia?
This black and white aquatic bird, native to the Northern US and to Canada, has solid bones adapted for diving in freshwater.
What is a loon?
WWII General, Old Blood and Guts
Who is General Patton?
This shoe, high up on a long this heel, italian for "little dagger" became popular in the 1950s.
What are stilettos?
Documentarian (and noted creep) Morgan Spurlock's film Super-Size Me premiered at the Sundance Festival in 2004, showing what can happen to someone who eats all their meals here for a month.
What is McDonalds?
A temple in Sri Lanka is dedicated to this body part allegedly taken from the Buddha's funeral pyre.
what is is tooth?
The first State Park in Minnesota, its the home of (and same name as) the lake at the north end of the Mississippi.
What is Itasca State Park?
The most used thesaurus in the English language was created by this retired Victorian-era London physician.
Who is Peter Mark Roget?
This raptor dives from the air to catch fish in ponds and coastal waters and has a distinctive black mask
What is an Osprey?
In 1970, as UK education secretary, she abolished the free milk program and was given the nickname Milk Snatcher. Eventually, she was also give the nickname, The Iron Lady
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
Graphic designer Carolyn Davidson was paid $35 for creating this company's Swoosh, probably the most famous of all shoe logos.
What is Nike?
Premiering at Sundance in 2018, a documentary following her, the second woman ever on the US Supreme Court and who died in 2020, was nominated for Best Documentary and Best Song.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsberg?
The word aficionado comes from Spanish, meaning an enthusiast or devotee, stemming from afición and ultimately from the Latin affectiō, originally used in the context of this colorful and controversial spectacle.
What is Bullfighting?
When they weren't summering in Kitty Hawk to get their flying machines off the ground, the Wright Brothers ran this business in Dayton, OH.
What is a bicycle shop?
This C word is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every instance of each word and its context. They are usually published for works of special importance, like the Bible or the complete work of Shakespeare.
What is a concordance?
This bird was used by ancient Egyptians for the hieroglyphic indicating the color “red”
What is the Flamingo?
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This showman's real name was Wladislu Valentino. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world with established concert residencies in Las Vegas, an international touring schedule and his own eponymous TV show.
Who is Liberace?
A cobbler repairs shoes. This profession builds them from scratch.
What is a cordwainer?
in 1991, this city was burning according to the title of this Grand Jury Documentary Prize about inner-city gay men who performed at drag balls in Harlem in the late 1980s.
What is Paris?
This every day object was invented by Don Wetzel in 1968. Don't forget your pin.
What is an ATM or Cash Machine?