History
What was the original name on New York City
What was New Amsterdam?
Any quizzer worth his salt knows that the major part of the Yucatan peninsula is Mexico. These are the other two countries that also occupy a small part of it?
What is Guatemala and Belize?
This is the term for when a solid turns directly into a gas.
What is sublimation?
Devised in Boston in 1946, The name of this juice combines patriotism and convenience
What is Minute Maid?
Sprint events at the Olympics are usually dominated by countries from the western hemisphere. As of 2012, Susanthika Jayasinghe is the first and only Asian to win an Olympic medal in any of 100 m, 200 m or 400 m sprint events. This is the country she represented.
What is Sri Lanka?
This leader’s reform policies of Glasnost and Perestroika led to the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This nation was named because it reminded Spanish Sailors of a province back home in Spain
Grenada
Alexander Graham Bell co-invented what's said to be the first of these devices, testing it on Civil War vets with bullets still in their bodies
What is a metal detector?
This movie was the first feature-length animated film ever released
What is “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”?
This fried street food popular with vegetarians is claimed by the Copts of Egypt as their invention to be a replacement for meat during Lent.
What is falafel?
A 2012 poll by Britain’s national army museum voted this man,(born in 1732) as the nation’s greatest military enemy.
Who is George Washington?
The first capital of California following American occupation in 1846 was this city
What is San Jose?
Which is the largest continental plate.
What is the Eurasian Plate?
Look for Aretha, Ray, James Brown, Cab Calloway, and, of course, Twiggy and Frank Oz in this 1980s film comedy
The policy of banning weapons enforced in Okinawa in medieval Japan influenced the development of this combat technique from Ryukyu Islands.
What is Karate?
To combat fuel shortages, Congress enacted this for almost 10 months in 1974,from January to October
What is Daylights Savings Time?
This ancient temple complex in Cambodia is the largest religious monument in the world.
What is Angkor Wat?
What particle does not interact with normal matter and passes through?
What is a Neutrino
In 1937 his sister said he had “hats of every description,” which he would use as a “foundation of his next book.”
What is Dr. Seuss?
This machine was invented in 1929; the government began buying them to help prevent any more in a series of Army Air Corps fatalities.
What is a Flight Simulator?
Known as the father of the computer, he conceptualized the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century.
Who was Charles Babbage?
This is the only U.S. state flag to feature the Union Jack.
What is Hawaii?
The baryon asymmetry problem in physics deals with the anomaly of why the universe has any matter at all and why it is not filled with photons only. This is because the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of this.
What is matter and antimatter?
Madame Medusa crocodiles torment the mice in this Disney classic
What is The Rescuers
Usually roasted, squab is a young one of these birds
What is a Pigeon?