Food and drink
For what food is the Scoville scale used to measure spiciness?
Chili peppers
His name lives on in the form of an oath of ethics taken by medical practitioners. Which ancient Greek physician is known as the "Father of Medicine"
Hippocrates
What Pharrell Williams song was released on his 2014 album “Girl”, and was heavily featured on the soundtrack for “Despicable Me 2?” As the song instructs, because he’s ______, you should clap along if you feel like a room without a roof.
Happy
Starring Michael Keaton as titular business mogul Ray Kroc, the 2016 film "The Founder" portrays the origin story of what golden-arches fast-food chain?
McDonald's
According to the musical based on his adventures, which Nickelodeon cartoon is not just any kind of absorbent, multicellular, deep-sea organism, but specifically, Aplysina fistularis?
SpongeBob Squarepants
Which transcontinental country (Europe and Asia) spans 11 time zones?
Russia
Name the Italian dessert that contains ladyfingers, mascarpone, and a secret pick-me-up ingredient
Tiramisu
Wielded by ancient Roman foot soldiers (as well as Maximus in the movie Gladiator), what type of weapon is a gladius?
Sword
Known for tunes like "U Got It Bad" and "Yeah!," what R&B artist also came out with a Mastercard debit card named after him in 2004?
Usher
Name the only dwarf in Snow White whose name doesn't include any of the letters in "Snow White."
Grumpy
There was a boom in sales of frill-necked lizards as domesticated pets after the release of what 1993 film featuring a similar, very extinct critter?
Jurassic Park
Mostly found shifting around under its water, what ocean is the namesake of Earth's largest tectonic plate?
Pacific Ocean
The traditional recipe for pound cake includes one pound each of four ingredients: flour, sugar, butter, and WHAT?
eggs
Scientists would like to resurrect the woolly kind of which trunked mammal believed to have gone extinct around 1650 B.C.?
Mammoth
Name this mystery fruit. It's known as the "king of fruits" in some regions. It's known for its strong odor and thorn-covered rind. If you removed one letter from this fruit's name and repeated yourself, you'd have the name of a mega-successful 80s band.
Durian
What 2004 smash-hit teen comedy movie opened as a musical on Broadway in Spring 2018? The Hollywood Reporter noted in its review that one character changed from an "imperious arbiter of high school hotness to full-blown arch villainess."
Mean Girls
It is likely that the first of these animals was the "Stellar" variety in which the male has a pronounced mane and is a fairly aggressive carnivore. This likely led to the misnomer for the creature. What is the name of these pinnipeds long foreflippers, the ability to walk on all fours, and a big chest and belly? They range from subarctic to tropical waters in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
Sea lion
Electric, Dooley, and Copperopolis are three communities in Montana that share what haunted condition?
Ghost towns
What double-Z word means the muscular enlargement in a bird's digestive tract that grinds food, often with the help of stones the bird has swallowed?
Gizzard
What legendary Greek philosopher, who authored the "Nicomachean Ethics," was also the tutor of Macedonian king Alexander the Great when the latter was a teenager?
Aristotle
Who appeared dressed as a cheeseburger in Taylor Swift’s 2019 “You Need to Calm Down” video as a complement to Taylor’s French fries, in a seeming end to a longstanding feud?
Katy Perry
In a 1987 film starring Peter Weller and Nancy Allen, the city of Detroit signs a deal with the company Omni Consumer Products to re-build parts of the city into a utopia and introduce a law enforcement robot ED-209. What is this film?
RoboCop
What is the "R" name for DNA created by combining fragments from different sources? These are occasionally referred to as "chimeric" DNA and are considered a key feature in much of DNA biotechnology applications.
Recombinant DNA
Which continent is the only one that doesn’t have a major mountain range (its highest point is about 7,309 feet above sea level)?
Australia
The Tendergrill is a grilled-chicken sandwich offered by what "royal" fast-food chain whose slogan was once "Have It Your Way?"
Burger King
Although it was predated by other dynasties, what Chinese dynasty, which ruled from 1600 BC to 1046 BC, is the first to be established in recorded history?
Shang
What song, released by Adele in 2011 as her first number-one single in the UK, later became the background of a popularized 2019 Tik Tok meme? The meme's motif was a close-up camera shot on a single object which then panned out to a larger group of identical objects as the song hit its titular lyrics
Someone Like You
When it came out in 1980, critics gave it mixed reviews. At 94% positive in 2022, which Star Wars film currently has the highest rating on Rotten Tomatoes?
The Empire Strikes Back
Silver iodide is a favorite "seeding agent" that is used in meteorological professions largely because it has a crystalline structure very similar to a natural ice crystal. What are the everyday objects that silver iodide is used to "seed"?
Clouds
Mount Elbrus, the highest mountain in the Caucasus Range, is the highest mountain in Europe and in what European nation? The nation is also home to Mount Narodnaya and Lake Baikal.
Russia
The Tendergrill is a grilled-chicken sandwich offered by what "royal" fast-food chain whose slogan was once "Have It Your Way?"
Burger King
Dating back to 3600 BCE in Persia, water-filled "bladder" mattresses were made from an oft-discarded organ of a particular domesticated animal. What is this animal?
Goat
Carly Rae Jepsen's smash hit single "Call Me Maybe" rested snugly at number one on Billboard Top 100 for nine weeks, launching her into the zeitgeist. Released four years later, what is the name of her critically-acclaimed 2015 record
Emotion
In 2002, which movie became the first to win the 'Best Animated Feature' award at the Oscars? In the broadcast of the event, this movie's main characters were shown attending the ceremony despite not being human- or real.
Shrek
In linear algebra, what “i” is a square matrix consisting of zeros apart from on the main diagonal on which there are ones?
Identity
An emirate is a territory ruled by an emir. Qatar and which other independent state are emirates? This independent state’s capital shares its name with the state.
Kuwait