History
It’s the election year the campaign slogans “The Moose is Loose” and “Ready for Teddy Again” were used.
1912
What is the study of plant life called?
Botany
Emily Elizabeth and this large colorful canine have many adventures in works by Norman Bridwell.
Clifford
This famous PBS bird has a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
Big Bird
Is red velvet considered chocolate or vanilla cake?
Vanilla with a few tablespoons of cocoa powder (and red food coloring).
This revolt, chiefly by farmers, took place in Massachusetts in 1786.
Shays' Rebellion
How many states of matter are there?
Four. Solid, liquid, gas, and plasma
It’s the first name shared by bestselling authors Delinsky, Tuchman and Kingsolver.
Barbara
In this 1961 movie, Audrey Hepburn had a cat with no name.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Which organ do insects not have?
Lungs
Published in 1783, his American Spelling Book preceded his famous dictionary by 45 years.
Noah Webster
Which city in Italy is famous for its canals?
Venice. In total, the city contains 150 canals
1944’s Absent in the Spring is one of the non-mystery novels she wrote under the name Mary Westmacott.
Agatha Christie
The make of car that starts up immediately after 200 years in Woody Allen’s Sleeper.
The Volkswagen Beetle
What is sushi traditionally wrapped in?
Edible seaweed
Founded in 1874, this political party advocated printing more money to help farmers.
The Greenback Party
Mitosis is the process a single cell uses to divide into two new identical cells. What do we call each set of cells?
Parent cells & daughter cells
Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel.
Beloved
The three stars of Rebel Without a Cause who met with untimely deaths.
Natalie Wood, James Dean, and Sal Mineo
What color is Absynthe?
Green
In 1875 this Tammany Hall “boss” escaped from prison and fled to Cuba and then to Spain.
William Magear “Boss” Tweed
What can sharks sense that humans cannot?
Electricity. They do this using organs called ampullae of Lorenzini.
Pebble in the Sky was his first novel, the “Foundation” of a long and prolific career writing science fiction.
Asimov
The first Academy Awards, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in 1929, saw this war movie winning for “Outstanding Picture.”
Wings
Which US city is known as the City of Brotherly Love?
Philadelphia
The first Mexican-American mayor of a major U.S. city, Henry Cisneros was mayor of this Texas city from 1981-1989.
What is the strongest muscle in the human body?
The jaw
This book by Boris Pasternak was banned in the USSR until 1987.
Doctor Zhivago
In Jezebel, Bette Davis’ character shocked New Orleans society by wearing a dress of this color to the ball.
Red
Which kind of flower bulbs were once exchanged as a form of currency?
Tulips; 17th Century Holland
On February 1, 1960, four students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this North Carolina city in protest over segregation.
Greensboro
What disease stems from the medieval term that means ‘bad air’?
Malaria
A futuristic society revolves around science and efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley.
Brave New World
Kevin Costner starred in this 1989 film based on the novel Shoeless Joe.
Field of Dreams
Who in Hollywood is known as “The Voice of God”?
Morgan Freeman
In 1945 scientists in this state witnessed the detonation of the world’s first atomic bomb.
New Mexico
What is the calm center part of a hurricane called?
“I woke to the sound of a mosquito whining in my left ear”, begins 2000’s Fever 1793, about an epidemic of this disease.
Yellow fever
Stewart O’Nan’s West of Sunset chronicles the life of this troubled writer in 1937 Hollywood.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is the fastest fish in the ocean?
Sailfish
In his teens, this Pittsburgh “pickle king” was running a business to supply grocers with fresh produce.
Henry Heinz
Aspirin comes from the bark of what tree?
Willow
The federal laureate position is technically called “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry” by this library.
The Library of Congress
Original wording of the Hollywood sign.
Hollywoodland
What dinosaur name means “fast thief”?
Velociraptor
The ceiling of the great hall in this Cornelius Vanderbilt home in Rhode Island is painted as a cloud-swept sky.
The Breakers
What type of cloud brings rain?
Nimbus
This Narnian lion appears in several other forms, including a lamb.
Aslan
In his first feature film, he played the Scarecrow in The Wiz.
Michael Jackson
What did the Crocodile swallow in Peter Pan?