Crime & Mystery
This island prison sat in San Francisco Bay and was nicknamed “The Rock.”
What is Alcatraz?
This sport uses a puck instead of a ball.
What is hockey?
This singer’s signature song was “My Way.”
Who is Frank Sinatra?
This city is nicknamed “The Big Apple.”
What is New York City?
This proverb warns against judging solely by appearances.
What is “Don’t judge a book by its cover”?
This gangster was famously known as “Scarface.”
Who is Al Capone?
This sport is played at Wimbledon each summer.
What is tennis?
This band’s harmonies helped define the California surf sound of the 1960s.
Who are The Beach Boys?
This country is famous for kangaroos and the Outback.
What is Australia?
This British leader promised “blood, toil, tears, and sweat.”
Who is Winston Churchill?
This outlaw couple became famous during the Great Depression.
Who are Bonnie and Clyde?
This country is most associated with art of sumo wrestling.
What is Japan?
This pop star performed the moonwalk during live performances.
Who is Michael Jackson?
This desert stretches across much of North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This proverb says honesty is the best what?
What is policy?
This unidentified hijacker disappeared after parachuting from an airplane with ransom money.
Who is D.B. Cooper?
This horse race is known as “The Fastest Two Minutes in Sports.”
What is the Kentucky Derby?
This British rock band featured Mick Jagger as lead singer.
Who are The Rolling Stones?
This Asian country is known as the Land of the Rising Sun.
What is Japan?
This author wrote, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
Who is George Orwell?
This frontier lawman became one of the most famous figures of the American West after Tombstone.
Who is Wyatt Earp?
This racket sport uses a shuttlecock instead of a ball.
What is badminton?
This Motown label founder created hits with artists like Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross.
Who is Berry Gordy?
This country is famous for fjords and Viking history.
What is Norway?
This Founding Father declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”
Who is Patrick Henry?
This criminal mastermind was the central villain in Sherlock Holmes stories.
Who is Professor Moriarty?
This Soviet gymnast won nine Olympic gold medals before age 24.
Who is Larisa Latynina?
This singer and actor starred in Blue Hawaii and Viva Las Vegas.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This rainforest is often called the “lungs of the Earth.”
What is the Amazon Rainforest?
This philosopher declared, “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Who is Socrates?
This lawman later reinvented himself as a New York sportswriter.
Who is Bat Masterson?
This golfer famously lost the 1999 U.S. Open after a duel with Payne Stewart.
Who is Phil Mickelson?
This singer’s backing band was called The Jordanaires.
Who is Elvis Presley?
This sea lies between Saudi Arabia and Africa.
What is the Red Sea?
This proverb warns that rushing often leads to mistakes.
What is “Haste makes waste”?
This elite law-enforcement group was created to combat Prohibition-era gangsters.
Who are The Untouchables?
This boxer retired undefeated with a record of 50–0 in 2017.
Who is Floyd Mayweather Jr.?
This legendary guitarist was nicknamed “Slowhand.”
Who is Eric Clapton?
This African lake is considered the source of the White Nile.
What is Lake Victoria?
This historian warned that “absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
Who is Lord Acton?