GEOGRAPHY
Where is Battery Park?
New York City
What Broadway show introduced the song Some Enchanted Evening?
South Pacific
What did the mysterious D.B. Cooper jump out of?
A Boeing 727
What does God create in the first sentence of the Bible?
Heaven and earth
What's the common name for acetylsalicylic acid?
Aspirin
What Hall of Famer coached the Boston Celtics to nine NBA titles?
Red Auerbach
What state has the highest overall elevation?
Colorado
What singer was known as Mr. C?
Perry Como
What's the International Criminal Police Organization better known as?
Interpol
What kind of dog is Marmaduke?
A Great Dane
What number does the Roman numeral C represent?
100
What 1927 baseball team had a crew of heavy hitters called Murderers' Row?
The New York Yankees
What's the longest navigable river in the world?
The Amazon
What comedian has played God in two movies?
George Burns
What battle was a horse named Comanche the only losing survivor of?
The Battle of Little Big Horn
What Shakespearean play opens with a storm at sea?
The Tempest
What do you get by adding Lactobacillus bulgaricus to milk?
Yogurt
What team did baseball's St. Louis Browns become?
The Baltimore Orioles
What's the capital of South Korea?
Seoul
What is a platinum record awarded for?
An LP selling a million copies
Where were Billie Clanton and the McLowery brothers gunned down?
The O.K. Corral
Who was Tiny Tim's father?
Bob Cratchit
What grows in a paddy field?
Rice
What's the center division of a Backgammon board called?
The bar
What city's main throughfare is the Grand Canal?
Venice's
What film starred Sir Laurence Olivier as the brooding Max de Winter?
Rebecca
What U.S. president's news conferences were called the best matinee in town?
John F. Kennedy's
What was the headline of The New York Daily Mirror on Dec. 6, 1933?
Prohibition Ends At Last
Which of the five senses are you most likely to lose if hit by lightning?
Hearing
What's the umpire's ruling if a line drive hits the third base bag and bounces into the stands?
Ground-rule double
What the longest river in Asia?
The Yangtze
What Gilbert and Sullivan opera is about the emperor of Japan?
The Mikado
What Dickens character said: "Please, sir, I want some more"?
Oliver Twist
What 1958 best-seller claimed to lift the lid off a small New England town?
Peyton Place
What delicacy is known indelicately as pickled roe?
Caviar
Who's played in the most NHL all-star games?
Gordie Howe
What's the northernmost Canadian province?
Quebec
What film pits Humphrey Bogart against gangsters in the Florida Keys?
Key Largo
What was the biggest selling American novel before Gone with the Wind?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What's the title of Mark Twain's autobiography?
Life on the Mississippi
What mammal has a bill, webbed feet with claws and lays eggs?
The duckbilled platypus
How many Major league baseball teams are named for birds?
Three
Where is Faneuil Hall?
Boston
What actor signed Hollywood's first million-dollar contract?
Charlie Chaplin
Who wears The Fisherman's Ring?
The Pope
What word occurs 46,227 times in the Bible?
And
What adjective describes an animal that eats both plants and animals?
Omnivorous
What team did home-run king Hank Aaron play his last major league game for?
The Milwaukee Brewers
What famed English site is found on Salisbury Plain?
Stonehenge
What did Bette Davis serve up to Joan Crawford in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane??
A dead rat
Who shot Lee Harvey Oswald?
Jack Ruby
Who wrote 1935's Green Hills of Africa?
Ernest Hemingway
What does an androphobic maiden fear?
Men
What city's baseball park boasts the world's largest beer barrel?
Milwaukee's
What country contains South America's highest and lowest points?
Argentina
What comedian once boxed under the name Packy East?
Bob Hope
What is woman climber Junko Tabei's claim to fame?
She was the first woman atop Everest
Who lived on the shores of the Gitchee Gumee River?
Hiawatha
What's the most widely eaten fruit in America?
The banana
What's the tennis term for missing on first and second service?
Double Fault