CURRENCY
Currency is nicknamed the "Loonie"
What is the Canadian dollar coin?
In 2011, a truck crash near a river in Idaho sent thousands of these floating downstream, causing locals to scoop them out with fishing nets for free dinner.
What are potatoes?
In 1972, a major toy company released a horror-themed board game called I Don't Want to Go to the Chair! where players had to navigate a grid to avoid getting sent to this terrifying device.
What is the electric chair?
HTTP status code means "Not Found"
What is 404?
Future president who appeared in over 50 Hollywood films before taking the oath of office.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
Country has the world's oldest currency still in use today.
What is the British pound?
Freezing river that George Washington famously crossed on Christmas night in 1776 to launch a surprise attack during the Revolutionary War.
What is the Delaware?
Classic board game secretly used by the British Secret Service during World War II to smuggle escape maps, compasses, and real money to prisoners of war.
What is Monopoly?
What "bug" refers to in programming.
What is a programming error or flaw?
Credited with helping popularize mac and cheese, fries, and vanilla ice cream in America after discovering them during a diplomatic trip to France.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Reason most retail establishments dislike the 2-dollar bill.
What is the lack of a designated slot in cash registers?
So massive, this river discharges around 84 Olympic-size swimming pools of freshwater into the ocean every second.
What is the Amazon River?
The classic board game Battleship takes this many total hits to completely sink an opponent's largest ship, the Aircraft Carrier.
What is 5?
Most popular web browser in the 1990s.
What is Netscape?
Was officially a licensed bartender before pursuing law and politics.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Frank Bourassa conducted the largest single-person counterfeiting operation in the US from 2008 to 2010. Amount he counterfieted.
What is $250 million?
Longest undammed river in the US.
What is the Yellowstone?
Play-Doh was originally invented in the 1930s for this completely non-toy purpose before it was marketed to children.
What is wallpaper cleaner?
The primary purpose of a compiler.
What is to convert source code into machine code?
Lovesick future president who spent months driving his future wife around on dates with other men just to stay close to her and win her over.
Who was Richard Nixon?
The design of US $10 and $100 bills differs significantly from other US bills in this way.
What is neither person pictured on the bill was a US president (Hamilton and Franklin?
Nicknamed the Big Muddy.
What is the Mississippi River?
Many historians believe the classic playground singing game Ring Around the Rosie is secretly a dark, coded song about the symptoms and deaths caused by this historical tragedy.
What is the plague?
Company that originally developed Java.
What is Sun Microsystems?
President who turned down offers to play for the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers in favor of a political career.
Who was Gerald Ford?