Astronomy
This planet shares its name with a metal that is liquid at room temperature.
What is Mercury?
Albany
He wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" and "A Farewell to Arms"
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
This Ancient Civilization built the Pyramids at Giza
Who are the Egyptians?
Chain
What is China?
This D word is a member of a mythical race of short, stocky human-like creatures who are generally skilled in mining and metalworking
What is a dwarf?
Elvis Presley's first number one hit reached the top of Billboard's Hot 100 chart on May 5, 1956.
Well, since my baby left me
What is Heartbreak Hotel?
A Game of Cat and
What is Mouse?
Native to New England and Atlantic Canada. This dish is served on a grilled hot dog–style bun. The filling may also contain butter, lemon juice, salt, and black pepper, with variants made in some parts of New England replacing the butter with mayonnaise.
What is a Lobster Roll?
This planet in the Solar System, is named for the Roman god of war.
What is Mars?
Tallahassee
He is best known for his novels 'War and Peace' and 'Anna Karenina'.
Who is Leo Tolstoy?
He founded the Mongol Empire
Who is Gengihs Khan?
Inlaced
What is Iceland?
This W word is having a drawn-out, high-pitched, unpleasant sound
What is whiny?
With his 1957 #1 hit album Elvis' Christmas Album, Elvis launched this #1 song.
Decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
Won't be the same dear, if you're not here with me
What is Blue Christmas?
Tongue in
What is Cheek?
This food is a savory, creamy American salad dressing usually made from buttermilk, salt, garlic, onion, black pepper, and herbs (commonly chives, parsley and dill), mixed into a sauce based on mayonnaise or another oil emulsion.
What is Ranch Dressing?
A Vixen Sixth-Order Aspheric Cassegrain telescope will help the astronomy nerd in your life stare at Cassiopeia, Hydra, Leo, or any of the other 86 of these “C” sky groupings
What are Constellations?
Honolulu
What is Hawaii?
He wrote 'A Tale of Two Cities', 'Great Expectations', and 'Oliver Twist'.
Who is Charles Dickens?
World War One began in this year.
What is 1914?
Serial
What is Israel?
This L word is a room providing a space out of which one or more other rooms or corridors lead
What is a Lobby?
This song became a minor hit in the United States when released as a single with "Almost in Love" as the A-side. A remix by Dutch musician Junkie XL of a later re-recording of the song by Presley became a worldwide hit, topping the singles charts in nine countries
A little more bite and a little less bark
A little less fight and a little more spark
What is a Little Less Conversation?
Burning the candle at
What is Both Ends?
This appetizer is an unbreaded chicken wing section (flat or drumette) that is generally deep-fried, then coated or dipped in a sauce consisting of a vinegar-based cayenne pepper hot sauce and melted butter prior to serving.
What are Buffalo Wings?
This profession anagrams, quite appropriately, to the term "moon starer?"
What is Astronomer?
Saint Paul
What is Minnesota?
Who is Virginia Woolf?
This ancient Greek philosopher wrote The Republic
Who is Plato?
Rain
What is Iran?
An F word meaning containing bubbles of gas; effervescent
What is Fizzy?
This is a 1968 song written and first recorded by the American songwriter Mark James. After this recording failed commercially, it was recorded by Elvis Presley Presley's version reached No.1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, his 18th and final no. 1 single
We're caught in a trap
I can't walk out
Because I love you too much, baby
What is Suspicious Minds?
First Come
According to the Library Company and Historical Society of Pennsylvania, this food was developed in the early 20th century "by combining frizzled beef, onions, and cheese in a small loaf of bread"
What is a Philly Cheese steak?
This brand of chocolate bar, made of nougat, topped with caramel, and covered with milk chocolate, shares its name with our galaxy.
What is Milky Way?
Santa Fe
What is New Mexico?
Her most famous works include 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Sense and Sensibility', and 'Emma'
Who is Jane Austen?
He was the first European to reach China overland.
Who is Marco Polo?
What is Mali?
This K word is a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a hollow pipe with a hole in it
What is a Kazoo?
Recorded by Elvis in 1961, this #1 hit came from the soundtrack to the movie Blue Hawaii.
Wise Men say, only fools rush in
What is Cant Help Falling In Love?
Put him out to
What is Pasture?
This soup is found in American cuisine containing a specific form of seafood. Common ingredients include diced potatoes, salt pork, and onions. Other vegetables are not typically used. It is usually served with saltine crackers or small, hexagonal oyster crackers
What is Clam Chowder?
This planet has a mass of only one-thousandth of the Sun, but is more than twice as large as all other planets in the solar system combined.
What is Jupiter?
Pierre
He wrote 'Crime and Punishment', 'The Idiot', 'Demons', and 'The Brothers Karamazov'.
Who is Fyodor Dostoevsky?
This ancient civilization built the City of Machu Picchu.
Who are the Incas?
Pure
What is Peru?
Moving fast or doing something in a short time
What is Quick?
The single topped the U.S. Billboard Top 100 on April 13, 1957, staying there for nine weeks. It also topped the Billboard R&B chart for four weeks, becoming Presley's second single to do so, and peaked at No. 1 on the country chart as well.
Oh, well, a-bless my soul, but what's wrong with me?
I'm itchin' like a man on a fuzzy tree
What is All Shook Up?
Beauty is only..
What is skin deep?
This food is a popular breakfast dish in the United States, especially in the south. The dish is made from the drippings of cooked pork sausage, flour, milk, and often (but not always) bits of sausage, bacon, ground beef, or other meat.
What are biscuits and gravy?
Titan is one of the few moons in the solar system known to have an atmosphere of any substance. Titan revolves around this planet.
What is Saturn?
Madison
What is Wisconsin?
He wrote in both Russian and English and is best known for his novel 'Lolita'
Who is Vladimir Nabokov?
This was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
Reign
This word has 5 vowels and means GoodBye
What is Adieu?
This song was recorded several times in 1927, first by Charles Hart. In April 1960, after Elvis' two-year service in the United States Army, he recorded the song ad it went to number one.
Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry we drifted apart?
What is Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Thick as
What is Thieves?
This food is an example of batter bread and is a staple food of the Hopi people in Arizona, the Hidatsa people of the Upper Midwest, and the Choctaw people of the Southeast. Made of ground maize, it has made its way onto most American families' dinner tables.
What is Corn Bread?
In 1997 Texas was the only state that allowed astronauts to do this.
What is vote?
Carson City
What is Nevada?
He is known for works like including 'The Metamorphosis' and 'The Trial'.
Who is Franz Kafka?
The ancient civilization of Nabateans in Jordan built this city, also an ancient wonder
What is Petra?
Rabies
What is Serbia?
A board that communicates through "spiritual forces"
What is Ouija?
This song hit the #1 spot on the rock charts, the country charts, and the R&B charts. It was released on a soundtrack of the same name. The theme and lyrics, which are sung intact, were almost condemned by the censors.
The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang
The whole rhythm section was a purple gang
What is Jailhouse Rock?
Hope Springs
What is Eternal?
This dessert is often served with whipped cream, ice cream, custard or cheddar cheese. It is generally double-crusted, with pastry both above and below the filling; the upper crust may be solid or latticed. This dessert is most popular in Michigan and New York
What is Apple Pie?
Astronomical distances are often described in this timely measurement, with one unit roughly equivalent to 5.88 trillion miles.
What is a Light Year?
Lansing
What is Michigan?
He is best known for his contributions to the philosophy of absurdism and for works such as 'The Stranger' and 'The Plague'.
Who is Albert Camus?
Which ancient civilization defined the concept of zero?
Ancient Indians of India
Acrimonies
What is Micronesia?
This S word is a young unfledged bird, especially a pigeon.
What is a Squab?
This number one was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002. In 2004, it was listed #197 in Rolling Stone's list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
You know I can be found
Sitting home all alone
If you can't come around
At least please telephone
What is Don't Be Cruel?
Practice what you
What is Preach?
More likely found at a carnival, this American food is called dippy dogs
What is a Corn Dog?
Although it's too faint to be seen by the unaided eye, this star is, at 4.2 million light years away, the closest star to us other than the Sun
What is Proxima Centauri?
Montpelier
What is Vermont?
His most famous works include 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' and 'Love in the Time of Cholera'.
Who is Gabriel Marquez?
Which ancient civilization gave the basis for most written languages?
Who are the Phoenicians?
Enemy
What is Yemen?
An A word that refers to a deep blue.
What is Azure?
On the folk, rockabilly, and rock charts this next #1 has a melody that is identical to the sentimental Civil War ballad "Aura Lea". As such, the melody has been sung at West Point for hundreds of years.
All my dreams fulfill
For my darlin', I love you
And I always will
What is Love Me Tender?
Better Late than
What is Never?
This dinner pie was invented at Pizzeria Uno in Chicago, founded by Ike Sewell and Richard Riccardo in 1943. Riccardo's original recipe was cooked in a pie pan or cake tin was published in 1945 and included a dough made with scalded milk, butter, and sugar.
What is deep dish pizza?