Authors
This American author wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Who is Mark Twain?
This team from New York is known as “The Bronx Bombers.”
Who are the New York Yankees?
This fruit’s name comes from the Latin word “malum,” meaning “evil,” because of its role in the story of Adam and Eve.
What is an apple?
In the movie Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart said, “Here’s looking at you, kid,” to this actress.
Who is Ingrid Berman?
In what sport would you find the terms “strike" and “turkey”?
What is Bowling?
Her only novel, published in 1960, was To Kill a Mockingbird.
Who is Harper Lee?
This player was known as “The Sultan of Swat.”
Who is Babe Ruth?
This word for a type of footwear comes from the Old Norse “skōr.”
What is a shoe?
This Disney animated film featured a wooden puppet who wanted to be a real boy.
Who is Pinocchio?
What is the smallest U.S. state by land area?
What is Rhode Island?
This English author created the detective Sherlock Holmes.
Who is Arthur Conan Doyle?
In 1947, he broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier by playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This word for a Japanese form of poetry means “beginning verse.”
What is haiku?
This movie musical starred Julie Andrews as Maria, a governess who teaches the von Trapp children to sing.
What is the Sound of Music?
What is the largest desert in the world?
What is the Sahara Desert?
She was one of the Brontë sisters and wrote Wuthering Heights.
Who is Emily Brontë?
This stadium, home of the Chicago Cubs, is famous for its ivy-covered outfield walls.
What is Wrigley Field?
This word for a travel bag comes from the town of Duffel in Belgium, where the cloth was first made.
What is a duffel bag?
This famous monster movie from 1933 featured a giant ape atop the Empire State Building.
What is King Kong?
What U.S. state is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”?
What is Minesota?
This Irish author spent 17 years writing his only novel, Ulysses, published in 1922.
This pitcher for the New York Mets threw the first no-hitter in team history in 2012.
Who is Johan Santana?
This long word meaning “opposition to the use of long words” is often cited as one of the longest words in English.
What is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?
This Alfred Hitchcock film shocked audiences with its 1960 shower scene.
What is Psycho?
Which element has the chemical symbol “W”?
What is tungsten?