FOOD AND DRINK
What are dried grapes commonly known as?
Raisins.
What document declared the thirteen American colonies independent from Great Britain in 1776?
The Declaration of Independence.
How many playing cards are in there in a standard deck?
52
In golf, players are allowed to set their ball on a small wooden or plastic object for the first shot. Name this device.
Tee
A baby goat is called what?
Kid
This is the most widely consumed beverage in the world next to water.
Tea
Which company was started by Bill Gates?
Microsoft
If you checked the time on Big Ben, in which country would you be?
England
Baseball players stand in this area as they wait for their turn?
Dugout
What do snakes use to smell?
Their tongue
Apple
Which American holiday commemorates a shared feast between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people that took place in 1621?
Thanksgiving.
Diamonds are made from highly compressed?
Coal
What team has fans known as ‘cheese heads’?
The Green Bay Packers
What animal is the symbol for the U.S. Republican Political Party?
Elephant
What company is the biggest producer of turkeys in the US?
Butterball
Ninety six percent of American children can recognize this classic fast food icon?
Ronald MacDonald
Who founded Motown Records?
Berry Gordy
Which movie star was an Austrian Junior Olympic Weightlifting Champion?
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
What is the name of the protective outer layer of trees?
Bark
This president made Thanksgiving a national holiday.
Abraham Lincoln
What was the name of the American general who led the allied forces to victory in Europe during World War II?
General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In what type of role did Oprah Winfrey make her first TV appearance in the 1970s?
News Anchor
Who beat Jim Brown's rushing yards total of 12,312 yards in the 1980s?
Walter Payton.
This is the fastest dog breed.
Greyhound
By what common name is a Yam also known?
Sweet Potatoes
What house is the second most visited American home in the United States--outdrawn only by the White House.
Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee.
What Saint is celebrated globally on March 17?
Saint Patrick
What was the first sport that women where allowed to play in the Olympics?
Tennis
What is the fastest animal on two legs?
An Ostrich.
What Thanksgiving dinnertime tradition is not American, or even British…or Roman, but in fact, from the ancient Etruscan civilization and was said to give the winner the power of divination.
Breaking of the wishbone.
What American institution did Napoleon's grandnephew Charles Bonaparte found in 1908?
The FBI
What is the most abundant gas in the Earth’s atmosphere?
Nitrogen
What baseball team was the first to introduce numbers as a permanent part of their players' uniforms?
The New York Yankees
Which species of decapod has varieties called "fiddler', 'spider' and 'hermit'?
Crab.
In the 1800s this popular fast food beverage used to contain whiskey and egg whites.
Milkshakes
In New York, Highway 9 is the official name of what thoroughfare?
Broadway
What language has 4x more people who speak it as a second language than native speakers?
English
What player has the most hits in MLB history?
Pete Rose (4,256 hits, 3,562 games played, 14,053 at-bats and 3,215 singles)
What feature is visibly different between alligators and crocodiles?
Their snout
What was the first USA state to put fluoride in the drinnking water?
Michigan
Since 1950, in the world there have been six lost nuclear weapons. How many US nuclear bombs have been lost and never discovered?
3
During WWII; Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword were nicknames for what?
Beaches
Which NFL team played in the Super Bowl for four consecutive years (1990-1993) and lost the championship each time?
Buffalo Bills
Collective nouns for animals include a congregation of alligators, a business of ferrets, an ostentation of peacocks, and a gaggle of what other fowl?
Geese