History
How many of his wives did Henry VIII behead
two
What Alaskan rivers is the U. S.'s second longest after the Mississippi-Missouri
hint think gold
The Yukon
What land animal has the highest blood pressure
a giraffe
What color are the goal posts in football
yellow
Name this literary classic "Puritan preacher provokes parishioner Prynne's peccadillos producing pregnancy, penitence, and Pearl"
The Scarlet Letter
What chapel built in 1744 takes its now famous name from the Spanish name for cotton-wood
Alamo
This city was called Edo. What is it's modern/current name
Tokyo
What state's official reptile is the diamondback terrapin
Hint: think college football
Maryland
In tennis scoring what word describes the situation of a player winning a point from deuce and therefore being just one point away from winning a game
advantage
"West Side Story" is a 'remake' of what Shakespeare play
Romeo and Juliet
What ocean liner rolled over on its side and sank after colliding with the SS Stockhokm in 1956
The Andrea Doria
M16 is a spy agency in what country
Great Britain
What common sea creature can regrow arms
starfish
(acceptable answers:
octopus, sea cucumber, brittle star, axolotls)
A founding member of the Baseball Hall of Fame Honus Wagner played for what baseball team
The Pittsburgh Pirates
What "Alice in Wonderland" creature is constantly shouting "Off with their heads"
The Queen of Hearts
What was the first state to ratify the Constitution
Delaware
From what country did Finland declare its independence in 1917
Russia
What is the only mammal that can fly
hint: not man
bats
What stroke is swum first in an individual medley in a swim meet
The Butterfly
Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge pf Courage" takes place during what war
The American Civil War
Baseball's 'inventor' Abner Doubleday fired the first shot defending what current National Monument
Fort Sumter
In what state is Craters of the Moon National Monument, the largest lava field in the lower forty-eight states
Idaho
The world's largest tortoises are native to what archipelago
The Galapagos Islands
What NFL team appeared in four consecutive Super Bowls from 1991 to 1994. They lost them all.
The Buffalo Bills
What epic John Milton poem published in 1667 concerns the fall of Lucifer from heaven and the expulsion of Adam and Eve
Paradice Lost