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The Mayflower.
What Will Wright created video game series released in 2000 (with sequels in 2004, 2009, and 2014) saw players watching and directing characters to mundane things like eating, sleeping, and cleaning their houses?
The Sims
Blueberries are native to which continent?
North America
At the 2010 Academy Awards, the winning film for Best Animated Feature was a Disney-Pixar film featuring Kevin, Charles Muntz, Carl, Russell, and a dog named Dug. What is this helium-inflated film?
Up
You'll be amazed to learn that it started as a pliable, putty-like substance that could clean coal residue from wallpaper. As coal-based home heating abated, it pivoted to being what much-kneaded Hasbro kid's toy?
Play-Doh
Jamestown, after King James I.
In 2014, Google partnered with Game Freak and Nintendo as part of an April Fool's Day prank to create a new version of Google Maps populated by small creatures. This prank inspired what massively popular 2016 video game?
Pokémon Go!
What type of nuts are used to make macarons?
Almonds
Star Wars fan Mike J. Nichols released a fan edit of "Episode I – The Phantom Menace" entitled "The Phantom Edit" in which, along with other smaller changes, he almost entirely removed which controversial character voiced by Ahmed Best?
Jar Jar Binks
Buckets, Too Tall, and Dazzle are some of the names listed on the roster of what internationally famous basketball team with over 27,000 wins?
Harlem Globetrotters
The Battle of Antietam, during the Civil War.
The website Ranker named GLaDOS, a fictional artificially intelligent computer system, the greatest video game villain of all time. GLaDOS was introduced in what groundbreaking computer game?
Portal
What cooking technique involves quickly submerging food in boiling water, then transferring it to ice-cold water to stop the cooking process?
Blanching
Most movies filmed in D.C. are about politics. One exception is what legendary 1973 horror film starring Linda Blair, which was filmed (and set) in D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood?
The exorcist
They're usually shown only above the shoulders and they won't shut up. That's the explanation for what two-word term for cable news pundits?
Talking Heads
1862.
In what video game universe, created by Capcom, would you find a character named Jill Valentine? The name of this game also could mean a home-dwelling spirit.
Resident Evil
Question: What is the key ingredient in a classic Tiramisu dessert?
Mascarpone cheese
Despite poor reviews and even poorer performance at the box office, what 1999 movie set in Boston (though mostly filmed in Toronto) followed fraternal-twins turned vigilante killers became a cult favorite in part due to an exclusive partnership with Blockbuster?
The Boondock Saints
What is the common name for the avian species Haliaeetus leucocephalus? Though the common name contains a misnomer, this bird remains one of the most famous in the world's largest economy.
The Bald Eagle
After the Boston Tea Party, Great Britain punished colonists with several laws that took away Massachusetts' right to govern itself. What were these laws called?
The Intolerable Acts (or the Coercive Acts in Great Britain).
What two-word video game franchise is considered a "score attack racing game" and is often considered innovative for its use of in-game advertising and its soundtrack provided by punk bands The Offspring and Bad Religion?
Crazy taxi
Which grain is the primary ingredient in the popular Middle Eastern dish tabbouleh?
Bulgur wheat
In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, what is the name of the Xexto podracer pilot who finishes second to Anakin Skywalker in the Boonta Eve Classic Podrace?
Answer: Gasgano
By watching a wasp in the 1700s, French scientist Rene de Reaumur conceived the idea to make what critical item out of wood? Wood pulp was not used at an industrial scale for this item until 100 years after this entomologist's insight.
Paper