Nursery Rhymes
"Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as ___."
What is snow?
This country is famous for the Eiffel Tower and croissants
What is France?
The capital of California is this city
What is Sacramento?
This 1998 cult classic features The Dude, a stolen rug, and a case of mistaken identity
What is The Big Lebowski?
This man is credited with discovering gold at Sutter’s Mill in 1848, triggering the California Gold Rush
Who is James W. Marshall?
"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch ___."
What is a pail of water?
This boot-shaped country is home to Rome and Venice
What is Italy?
The capital of Texas is this city, known for its live music scene
What is Austin?
This 2007 film starring Javier Bardem as a hitman won the Oscar for Best Picture
What is No Country for Old Men?
This overland route, used by thousands of prospectors traveling west, was one of the most treacherous paths to the goldfields
What is the California Trail?
This nursery rhyme is about an egg that falls off a wall
What is Humpty Dumpty?
This Scandinavian country is known for its fjords and capital city, Oslo
What is Norway?
The capital of Florida, not Miami or Orlando, is this lesser-known city
What is Tallahassee?
This Coen Brothers comedy features Nicolas Cage as an ex-con who kidnaps a baby
What is Raising Arizona?
Many prospectors arrived by sea through this port city, which became the economic and population center of the Gold Rush
What is San Francisco?
This nursery rhyme warns about a baby in a cradle falling from a treetop
What is Rock-a-bye Baby?
This landlocked European country is split into Dutch, French, and German-speaking regions
What is Belgium?
The capital of South Dakota, often confused with a similarly named city in North Carolina, is this
What is Pierre?
This dark, 1996 crime thriller follows a Minnesota cop investigating a botched kidnapping, with a woodchipper making a famous appearance
What is Fargo?
This lesser-known gold rush took place in 1858 in present-day Colorado, attracting prospectors to the Rocky Mountains
What is the Pike’s Peak Gold Rush?
In Humpty Dumpty, after his great fall, these two groups are unable to put him back together again
Who are all the king’s horses and all the king’s men?
This tiny European nation, completely surrounded by Italy, is one of the world's smallest countries and has the world's oldest surviving republic
What is San Marino?
This state capital is the only one that borders two other state capitals, sitting near both Jefferson City and Lincoln
What is Des Moines?
This lesser-known 1991 Coen Brothers film, about a struggling screenwriter in 1940s Hollywood, won the Palme d’Or at Cannes but flopped at the box office
What is Barton Fink?
In 1851, this gold rush in New South Wales and Victoria rivaled the California Gold Rush and led to one of the largest mass migrations in history
What is the Australian Gold Rush?