World History
What year was Paris liberated from the Germans.
1944
What two states contain the farthest-separated points in the U.S.?
Florida and Hawaii
What's the most widely-used tranquilizer in America?
Valium
What's the back boundary line in tennis called?
Base Line
What Canadian island was the setting for "Anne of Green Gables"?
Prince Edward Island
What was Queen Victoria's mother tongue?
German
What's the worlds widest river?
The Amazon
What is the outermost layer of skin called?
The epidermis
What is an expert rifleman called?
Marksman
What singer was married to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Connie Stevens?
Eddie Fisher
What treaty did Hitler break in 1935?
The Treaty of Versailles
What South American country is home to Varig Airlines?
Brazil
What do humans catch zoonose diseases from?
Animals
Who was named football back of the decade 1950-1960?
Jim Brown
Who wrote the poem "A Road Not Taken"?
Roberts Frost
In what war did Florence Nightingale first tend the troops?
Crimean War
What South American country took its name from the Latin for "silvery"?
Argentina
Where in the body would you find your "aqueous humor"?
The eye
What two universities met in the first college football game? One is an Ivy and one is in the Big 10.
Princeton and Rutgers
What diet book was named for a town in New York state? "The Complete___________ Diet"
Scarsdale
What Soviet leader approved the building of the Berlin Wall?
Nikita Khrushchev
What tourist attraction now stands on the site of New York's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel?
The Empire State Building
What part of the body goes to sleep when you experience taresthesia?
The foot
What annually held race has the distinction of being the "longest-lasting" non-mechanical sports event?
The Tour de France
Who was Don Quixote's imaginary love?
Dulcinea