State Capitals
Lincoln lived & practiced law here for 25 years before becoming president.
What is Springfield?
Horse racing was a sport at these ancient Greek contests.
What are the Olympics?
Common substance known chemically as sodium chloride.
What is salt?
Christmas, Easter, or Bermuda are great examples.
What are islands?
She was 8 years older & 3 months pregnant when Shakespeare married her.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
There are four state capitals named after American presidents.
What is Jackson (MS), Jefferson City (MO), Lincoln (NE), and Madison (WI)?
Billy the Cobbler, or a famous jockey.
Who is Willie Shoemaker?
Coal & diamonds both consist of it.
What is carbon?
Largest country entirely in Europe.
What is France?
Hamlet found "something rotten" in this country.
What is Denmark?
1 of 4 state capitals that end in word "City".
(One of) What is Salt Lake City, Oklahoma City, Carson City, or Jefferson City?
Collective name of Kentucky Derby, Preakness, & Belmont Stakes.
What is the Triple Crown?
Used in cars' catalytic converters, it's more expensive than gold.
What is platinum?
Europe's only wild monkeys live on this "rock".
What is (rock of) Gibraltar?
The Moor who loved Desdemona "not wisely, but too well".
Who is Othello?
It succeeded Fort Whipple, Prescott, & Tucson as capital.
What is Phoenix?
All U.S. thoroughbreds are officially born on this day of the year.
What is January 1st?
U.S. & Canada produce almost entire world supply of this lightest inert gas.
What is helium?
1/3 the size of U.S., this royal kingdom has no rivers or lakes but lots of oil.
What is Saudi Arabia?
Battle of the sexes on which musical "Kiss Me Kate" was based.
What is The Taming of the Shrew?
At 6.7 square miles, this is the smallest U.S. capital by land size.
What is Annapolis?
Since 1936, because of this, horses "say cheese" at the end of races.
What is a "photo finish"?
The only two solid elements that assume liquid form at room temperature.
What are bromine and mercury?
Clocks in Lima, Peru, read the same as in this U.S. time zone.
What is eastern?
Chubby character who loved his ale & supplied the name for one.
Who is Falstaff?