Technology
What search engine makes changes to its logo, known as "doodles," to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and famous people, such as a pointillist version in honor of artist Georges Seurat?
According to a 1963 commercial, what toy uses "two-ordinary light bulbs and a special cooling chamber" to make "cakes, cookies, candy, brownies, pizza, pies, and biscuits"?
Easy Bake Oven
Known for his habit of whacking his right hind foot against the ground, Thumper is the BFF of what “B”-loved Disney deer?
Bambi
What is the translation of the title of the song “Auld Lang Syne”?
times gone by
What informal term for a rabbit is used for a gentle ski slope suitable for beginners?
bunny
“Smart” credit cards or chip cards are also called EMV cards. EMV is an acronym for the trio of credit card companies that set the standard: Europay, MasterCard, and ______.
Visa
Introduced at the 1904 World’s Fair, what machine-spun sweet treat was invented by dentist William Morrison and candy maker John C. Wharton and was originally named “Fairy Floss”?
Cotton Candy
You get a book! You get a book! You get a book! For 15 years, starting in 1996, what daytime talk show megastar’s book club recommended a total of 70 books leading to total sales of over 55 million copies?
Oprah Winfrey
What was the most popular New Year's resolution in 2020?
exercise more
Also known as a vodka buck, a Moscow mule is traditionally served in a mug made of what metal whose name derives from the Latin word “cuprum”?
copper
Although often misattributed as a French invention owing to its name and history, what macabre beheading-device was actually first used in Ireland in 1307, over 450 years before it was first used in France?
Guillotine
The answer is under your desk: vandalism and littering led Singapore to ban the import and sale of which chewy confectionary in 1992?
Gum
What American TV show from the 1970s and 1980s still holds the record for the most watched finale ever with more than 100 million households tuning in?
M*A*S*H*
In Spain, 12 of what type of food is eaten at midnight on New Year's Eve for good luck??
grapes
La Paz Waterfall Gardens in Costa Rica is a popular choice for tourists to admire the flora and fauna. This park attracts half of all of the 52 native species of what small hovering bird?
hummingbird
While building magnetrons at MIT in the 1940s, Percy Spencer noticed a melting chocolate bar in his pocket. Deeper investigation and exploration led to the invention of what household device? Spencer received no royalties for this invention, first marketed as the Radarange.
Microwave
1989: According to a Statista analysis of the top produced grains in the world, corn is #1 by a large margin followed by wheat at #2. Scooped up for biryani, bibimbap, and boudin, what grain comes in at #3 with 510 million metric tons produced globally in 2021?
Rice
What cartoon franchise was originally titled "Mysteries Five" and included a banjo-playing Great Dane canine?
Scooby Doo
What do people in the Southern United States eat for good luck on New Year's Eve?
black eyed peas
The Guinness Book of World Records says the record they reject most often is for the longest chain of what office supplies?
paperclips
Now appearing prophetic, what device was announced in 2007 with the following slogan? "This is only the beginning."
iPhone
What best-selling children's book opens with the following lines? "I am sam. Sam I am."
Green Eggs and Ham
Sporting abundant hair and a love of happy trees, what was the first and last name of the guy who hosted the PBS television program "The Joy of Painting?"
Bob Ross
Who was the first broadcast host of the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration?
Guy Lombardo
What common herb do some eaters complain tastes of soap? Some consumers of this plant in the family Apiaceae have a variation in their olfactory-receptor genes which brings out the soapy taste of this plant’s leaves.
cilantro