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Founded in 1565 by Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles of Spain, this city is the oldest European-founded city in the United States.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
This "Mother" won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work as part of an order of nuns serving in Calcutta.
Who is Mother Teresa?
Complete the Lyric
"You've married an Icarus and he's flown too close to the ___."
What is the sun?
In 2009, Greece prohibited these shoes from being worn in Acropolis in order to protect the ruins.
What are high heels?
This team member cheers for the Pittsburg Steelers.
[Two correct answers]
Who are Lindsay and Emili?
This country gifted the United States with the Statue of Liberty.
What is France?
Mother to William and Harry, Princess Diana of ___ used her status as a royal figure to work with charities that supported children’s hospitals and to raise awareness and combat landmines.
What is Wales?
This Greek hunter rejected all romantic advances, eventually falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, staring at it for the remainder of his life. His name is the origin of the term narcissism, a fixation with oneself. This quality, in turn, defines narcissistic personality disorder, a condition marked by grandiosity, excessive need for admiration, and an inability to empathize.
Who is Narcissus?
In Milan, Italy it is illegal not to do this, unless at a funeral or hospital.
What is smile?
This team member likes to visit places where they can ski.
[Two correct answers]
Who are Oscar and Jenny?
President John F. Kennedy served in this branch of the US military.
What is the Navy?
Known as the "Mother of Modern Physics," this Nobel Prize winner had a daughter who went on to be awarded the Nobel Prize as well.
Who is Marie Curie?
Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, favored this bird.
What is an owl?
In 1969 this US State made it illegal to kill Bigfoot. Subsequently, the law was amended to designate Bigfoot as an endangered species.
What is Washington?
This team member prefers country music.
[Two correct answers]
Who are John and Lindsay?
Passed in 1919, this amendment prevented the sale of alcoholic beverages.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Of King Henry VIII's six wives, only this one became a mother to the male heir he sought so desperately. Although she died just weeks after his birth, her son Edward VI of England survived until illness took him at age 15.
Who is Jane Seymour?
This goddess is the wife of Hades and her return from the Underworld each year was thought to bring the seasons of spring and summer.
Who is Persephone?
Who is Winne the Pooh?
Who is Nick?
The first U.S. dollar was printed in 1862 with the portrait of this man who was the Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War.
Who is Salmon P. Chase?
She inspired the movement that eventually made Mother’s Day into a national holiday. After most of her babies died of diseases—only four of her possibly 13 children survived to adulthood—she wanted to help other mothers. She organized Mother's Day Work Clubs in what is now West Virginia to help provide medical care, raise money for medicines, and improve sanitary conditions for poor mothers.
Who is Ann Jarvis?
This Titan was condemned to hold the weight of the sky for all eternity.
Who is Atlas?
In this US State, it is illegal to "cause a catastrophe" which is defined as widespread injury or damage caused by weapons of mass destruction, explosion, fire, flood, avalanche, or building collapse.
What is Utah?
This team member has four siblings.
Who is Camila?