The Nutmeg State
The original settlement known as New Haven was named for which Native American tribe?
Quinnipiacs
These two players excelled in football (played NFL) and played in the MLB.
Bo Jackson
Deion Sanders
Also the name of a 2014 movie which depicts the eruption, which city in present-day Italy that was buried in a blanket of ash and pumice when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD?
Pompeii
Ukraine shares land borders with two R-word countries: Russia and what nation that's about an 18-hour drive from the capital of Italy?
Romania
What was the site of the peace talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam that produced the treaty leading to U.S. withdrawal from the war in 1973?
Paris
Change one letter in "droid" and you get what word that means a priest in the ancient Celtic tradition?
Druid
Which type fo wave requires a medium to travel through?
Sound wave
Milford, CT was originally called ________, by the Paugausset tribe.
Wepawaug
Who leads all tight ends in career receiving yards?
Tony Gonzalez (Chiefs)
What was the code name for the Allied invasion of Sicily?
Operation Husky
Which body of water borders the South of Ukraine?
Black Sea
What is the forced migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast called?
Under what president did this occur (for 50 more pts)?
Trail of Tears
Andrew Jackson
Located within the Irish province of Munster, what city in Ireland is also a type of five-line poem which famously follows an AABBA rhyming scheme?
Limmerick
What is the largest organ in the human body?
Skin
This Jonathan Law coach was called "an eternal optimist and an eternal tough guy in the same breath." ________
Bonus question: In what year did this former football player, military man, post office worker, husband and father first start coaching football?
Richard Nucifora
1971
For most of his career, Don Shula was head coach for what team?
Miami Dolphins
What Italian emperor was known to "have fiddled while Rome burned."
Nero
The Pripyats marshes in Belarus are one of the tributaries of this river which enters Ukraine in Chernobyl. What is this river's name?
Dnieper
Who was the 5th president of the U.S.?
James Monroe
The fungus-like organism, Phytophthora infestans, was most notable for what in 1845 - 1852?
"the Potato Famine"
C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + Energy is the chemical equation for __________.
Bonus: the equation is reverse is called ____________.
cellular respiration
photosynthesis
The schooner ______ was a ship from Spain. This schooner has importance to CT, because a mutiny occurred onbaord that lead to a famous trial in New Haven that freed the people who were enslaved.
Armistad
Which military school did Giants wide receiver, Phil McConkey, attend?
Naval Academy
Namen the two Italian artists responsible for these two famous paintings, which appear on two of the euro coins:
The Birth of Venus
The Vitruvian Man
Sandro Botticelli
Leonardo de Vinci
Name the four major leaders who were at Yalta in 1945 to discuss the future of Europe following WW II:
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin
Which fantasy book series by George R.R. Martin began with "A Game of Thrones" in 1996 but gained popularity through the HBO adaptation, which started in 2011?
A Song of Fire and Ice
What there-word nickname, referring to the colors of both army and police uniform, was used for constables recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary as reinforcements during the Irish War of Independence? The singular of this nickname is a cocktail comprising pale beer and dark beer, usually called a “half and half” in Ireland.
Black-and-tan
In particle physics, which property is a half-integer for fermions and an integer for bosons?
Spin
The cave where three judges hid in New Haven, Connecticut in the 17th century was in a rock formation on top of West Rock, now known as______ _____.
Judges Cave
What reason did former Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan give for cutting future Hall of Fame wide receiver Cris Carter?
"All he can do is score touchdowns."
Known for its "Surprise" eggs, what chocolate brand is produced in Italy even though its name means "children" in German and "nicer" in English?
Kinder
The Seventh-Kilometre Market, one of Europe's largest outdoor markets, started in the 1960s as a flea market. In which city, site of the 1905 uprising featured in Sergei Eisenstein's film 'The Battleship Potemkin', will you find this market?
Odesa
Which two Native American leaders led Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors in the fight against Lieutenant Colonel George Custer’s troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull
Where is Jameson whiskey distilled?
Midleton, Co. Cork
In 1991, the World Wide Web was released for the first time outside of the research organization where it had been invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee. What is the name of that organization, more famous today for operating the Large Hadron Collider on the border between France and Switzerland?
CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)