Food and Drink
Sliced apples sautéed in butter are a classic filling for these French pancakes.
Crepes
Koalas have adapted their diet with an extra-long gut to break down poisons in these leaves & sleep 20 hours a day due to a lack of nutrition in the leaves.
Eucalyptus
In what language was Don Quixote written?
Spanish
A deal is made to make Washington, DC the nation's new capital in "The Room Where It Happens," a song in what smash hit Broadway musical?
Hamilton
Who was the very first "American Idol" winner?
Kelly Clarkson
Many a French meal ends with a dry red wine served with this blue-veined treat, the “cheese of kings and popes.”
Roquefort (not blue cheese)
It’s the world’s largest burrowing animal & can make a destructive tunnel complex 650 feet long, so farmers don’t find it as cute as zoo-goers might.
A wombat
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, which was based on what real town?
Hannibal, MO
Named for a major Midwestern city, what long-running Broadway musical features songs like "All That Jazz," "Cell Block Tango," and "Mr. Cellophane?"
Chicago
Who founded Motown Records?
Berry Gordy
If you’re in Central Asia, ask for shashlik; if you head down to the Middle East, ask for this 2-word skewered meat equivalent.
Shish kebab
What is a group of cats called?
A clowder
In what fictional town is Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird set?
Maycomb, AL
Debuting in London's West End in 1986 and on Broadway in 1988, what Andrew Lloyd Webber musical features the songs "All I Ask of You" and "The Music of the Night?"
The Phantom of the Opera
What was Freddie Mercury's real name?
Farrokh Bulsara
Aromatics, like garlic & fennel, are key to this Middle Eastern rice dish with a 5-letter name.
Pilaf
Which has the thickest fur of any mammal?
Sea Otter
Ichabod Crane rode a partially blind, the broken-down old horse in Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow. What was its name?
Gunpowder
"There's No Business Like Show Business" is a song written by Irving Berlin for what classic Broadway musical about the life of sharpshooter Annie Oakley?
Annie Get Your Gun
What rock icon was the founder of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men?
David Bowie
Garbanzo beans commonly go by this name as well.
Chickpeas
The age of a lion can be determined by its…?
Nose
Which of Tolkien’s fantasy characters inhabit the world of Middle Earth?
The Hobbits
"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain" is a famous lyric from what classic Broadway musical by Lerner and Loewe?
My Fair Lady
Keith Moon and John Entwistle of The Who are said to have inspired the name of which other classic rock band?
Led Zeppelin