Geography
What U.S. state thrills athletes with lakes named Ball Club, Big Diamond and Bat?
Minnesota
What TV sitcom launched Will Smith's acting career?
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
What organization owned an Atlanta sheet factory that manufactured hooded white robes, in the 1920s?
The Ku Klux Klan
In whose honor was the University of Virginia's Raven Society established?
Edgar Allan Poe
As of 2009, what country has won the most FIFA World Cup titles?
Brazil
What was the first building in the world to have more than 100 floors?
Empire State Building
How many band members were in Ben Folds Five?
Three
What astronaut flew over 150 missions in World War 2 and Korea, winning six Distinguished Flying Crosses?
John Glenn
What bird-inspired poem by John Keats begins, "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk"?
"Ode to a Nightingale"
In the game of chess, what direction can the bishop piece move?
Diagonally
What U.S. state claims the longest stretch of the Connecticut River?
New Hampshire
What superhero shares a name with a popular Black Sabbath song?
Iron Man
How many of Magellan's five ships made it back to Spain in the first circumnavigation of Earth?
One
What type of book would a lexicographer write or edit?
Dictionary
What organization was plagued by the Curse of the Bambino?
Boston Red Sox
What U.S. state borders New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas?
Oklahoma
Who was the first U.S. presidential candidate to be labeled an "egghead" in the 1950s?
Adlai Stevenson
To whom did Peter Abelard famously write?
Heloise- She was his pupil and became his lover
What baseball player coined the phrase "Ya gotta believe!"?
Tug McGraw
What did the native people of Washington state call the "Mountain of God"?
Mt. Rainier
Which TV series launched the careers of the Olsen twins?
Full House
What fish were said to be so plentiful in Newfoundland's waters that they slowed down ships, in the 1500s?
Cod
Bill Gates bought whose notebook for more than $50 million in 1994?
Leonardo da Vinci
What does NCAA stand for?
National Collegiate Athletic Association
What high-tech California city shares its name with the capital of Costa Rica?
San Jose
On what quiz show did Ken Jennings set the record for consecutive wins?
Jeopardy!
What breakfast food contained the first Sacagawea dollar coins available to the U.S. public?
Cheerios
What comic-strip character shares a name with a muddy rock festival?
Woodstock
What three races make up the Triple Crown of horse racing?
Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes
What nation is credited with inventing both the plumbed toilet and toilet paper?
China
What interviewer often asks guests what their favorite curse word is?
James Lipton
What fraction of U.S. military gas masks tested in 2000 were shown to have critical defects?
One-half
What long-running Broadway musical was based on an epic French novel published in 1862?
Les Miserables
A velodrome is a specially built arena for what sport?
Cycling
Category: HISTORY
"What performance group did sharpshooter Annie Oakley tour with?
Buffalo Bill's Wild West