Rome
The 1953 film "Roman Holiday" is famous for its scenes of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck riding around Rome on a scooter made by what Italian brand whose name means "wasp?"
Vespa
Blanche, Dorothy, Rose, and Sophia share a home in Miami and share the auric experiences of being widows and divorcées in what NBC sitcom with the unforgettable theme song “Thank You For Being A Friend”?
The Golden Girls
What Dublin-born writer of books like The Lair of the White Worm (1911) probably got the idea for his most famous character from the spooky stories about the Carpathian Mountains told to him by his Hungarian-Jewish friend, Armin Vambery?
Bram Stoker
What toothed whale with a falsely incriminating name belongs to the oceanic dolphin family? Also known as an orca, they have black bodies with a white underside and patches near the eye.
Killer whale
Bibliosmia is a term that describes the love of what?
The smell of old books
In the Catholic Church, the Bishop of Rome is a title more commonly known as what?
Pope
Each January 1st from 1992 through 1995, you could count on the Nebraska Cornhuskers winning what NCAA football bowl game that formerly took place annually in a namesake stadium in Miami, Florida?
Orange Bowl
James Joyce's seminal book Ulysses takes place on a single day in Dublin, but is heavily based on what epic poem that covers a decade of travel around the Mediterranean Sea?
The Odyssey
Cephalofoil is the formal term for the distinctly shaped noggins of what 360-degree seeing shark group?
Hammerhead
What animal burps when it's happy?
Gorilla
What “A” word is a watercourse engineered to carry water from a source to a distribution point? Used today to describe pipes, canals, and tunnels, it was most famously used in Ancient Rome, construction that stands to this day.
Aqueduct
Prague-born Jan Hammer composed the music for what 1980s TV series that starred Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas as detectives in Florida?
Miami Vice
Considered one of Ireland's greatest cultural treasures, the Book of Kells is a 9th-century illuminated manuscript held in the library of what Dublin institution of higher learning?
Trinity College
If you order uni at a sushi bar, you're going to get what spiky ocean dweller
Sea urchin
What was the original title of the TV show "Seinfeld"?
“The Seinfeld Chronicles”
The largest public space in Ancient Rome was a venue designed for horse and chariot racing which seated around 150,000 people. Because of its size, it was also used for festivals and animal shows. What was it?
Circus Maximus
Biscayne, San Marco, and Di Lido are artificial islands in Miami that are collectively known by what name, in reference to another city with significant water features?
Venetian Islands
The city of Dublin is located at the mouth of what river, which is only the country's 8th largest?
River Liffey
“Morse” is an archaic term for which large marine mammal characterized by prominent tusks and whiskers?
Walrus
Chicken feed was the original name for what yellow, orange and white candy
Candy corn
What Puccini opera is set in Rome in June of 1800, and tells the story of an opera singer, her lover (a painter), and a corrupt Chief of Police? A performance of this opera was the setting for a scene in the James Bond movie "Quantum of Solace."
Tosca
What fad diet popular in the 2000s, which prohibits white bread, white potatoes, and white rice, was invented by Miami-area doctor Arthur Agatston?
South Beach
During the Easter Rising of 1916, what Dublin building served as the headquarters for the leaders of the uprising? Patrick Pearse read out the Proclamation of the Irish Republic outside of this building on April 24th.
Post Office
Getting stung by one most certainly does not rock. Closely related to scorpionfish, what group of fish from the genus Synanceia is considered the most venomous, with untreated stings sometimes leading to death?
Stonefish
Farrokh Bulsara is the real name of what famous rock band lead?
Queen's Freddie Mercury