Pittsburgh
The names of the 3 rivers in Pittsburgh
What are the Ohio, Allegheny, and the Monongahela
The animal that kills the most humans every year
What are mosquitos?
This holiday movie is famous for the quote "Keep the change, ya filthy animal."
What is Home Alone?
What is zero?
Singer-actor Stefani Germanotta is better known as this stage name
Who is Lady Gaga?
The number of Super Bowls the Steelers have won
What is six?
Originally marketed as a sedative and treatment for morning sickness in the 1950s, this drug caused phocomelia in thousands of infants
What is thalidomide
This is the name of the Grinch's dog
What is Max? (short for Maximillian)
The famous scientist that invented the Polio vaccine at Pitt
Who is Jonas Salk?
What are octopi, squid, and cuttlefish? (only need to get one of these to score)
This American steel magnate, who made Pittsburgh a steel capital, founded U.S. Steel in 1901
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
In human anatomy, the "hallux" refers to this body part
What is the big toe?
These foil-wrapped chocolate treats, whose name means “money” in Yiddish, are commonly used in the dreidel game.
What is gelt?
This is the color of the sunset on Mars
What is blue?
This Asian country has the highest population density in the world
What is Bangladesh?
This Pittsburgh neighborhood is known as the city’s “Little Italy”, famous for its Italian restaurants and annual festival.
What is Bloomfield?
Before the germ theory of disease, this physician theorized that “bad air” was responsible for epidemics, coining this term that influenced public health for centuries.
What is miasma?
Observed the day after Christmas, this holiday originated in the United Kingdom as a day to give gifts or money to service workers and the less fortunate
What is boxing day?
Ichthyologists study this
What are fish?
This is the name given to a group of flamingos
What is a flamboyance?
Number of bridges in Pittsburgh (answer must be +/- 10 to count as correct)
What is 446?
In ancient Greece, the now-extinct plant silphium was highly prized for this purpose
What is a contraceptive?
In some European traditions, this character accompanies Saint Nicholas to punish naughty children, often dressed in dark clothes.
Who is Krampus?
This element has the highest melting point of all metals, at over 3,400°C.
What is tungsten?
A standard piano has this many keys
What is 88?