Sports
Who was the first MLB player to reach 3,000 hits?
Pete Rose
What legendary creature is said to inhabit the forests of the New Jersey Pine Barrens?
The Jersey Devil
What is the standard voltage supplied to most U.S. homes for small appliances?
120 Volts AC
Who wrote the play Death of a Salesman?
Arthur Miller
Which artist or band closed the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival?
Jimi Hendrix
Which NHL player is known as "The Great One"?
Wayne Gretzky
What color was Babe, the ox with whom folk giant Paul Bunyan traveled?
Blue
Which U.S state produces the most natural gas?
Texas
Who wrote The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas?
Sylvia Plath
How long did the French Revolution last?
Ten years. From 1789 to 1799
Which American football player was the first to have his number retired by the NFL?
Jim Thorpe
What legendary American creature is said to live in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, known for its large size, long dark hair, and elusive nature?
Bigfoot (Sasquatch)
What is the term for the electrical power supply delivered to homes and businesses through the electrical grid.
Mains Electricity
Which British author is known for The Chronicles of Narnia series?
C.S. Lewis
What does LBD stand for in the world of fashion?
Little Black Dress
The winner of 11 NBA titles as a player, & the first Black coach in the NBA, this legend passed away in 2022
Bill Russell
What is the name of the ghostly ship that is said to sail the seas in American folklore, doomed to wander forever?
The Flying Dutchman
What type of home water filtration system is effective for removing chlorine, bad taste and odors
Activated Carbon Filter
Who was the first African-American author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
Toni Morrison - 1993, for her entire body of work.
The Mississippi River forms the ENTIRE border between Mississippi and what state?
Arkansas
In 2024 this 3-week competition began in Florence & for the first time in its history, ended in Nice, due to the Olympics
The Tour de France. Always ends in Paris,
Stephen Foster wrote a famous minstrel folk song in the contradictory lyric style. It was about a man going to see his sweetheart who had a buckwheat cake in her mouth. The lyrics made the state of the weather very unclear.
What was the song?
Oh Susanna.
"It rained so hard the day I left. The weather it was dry. It was so hot I froze to death. Susanna don't you cry."
What safety additive gives natural gas its distinctive smell?
Mercaptan
The Plague is a 20th century novel by which author?
Albert Camus
What mountains separate Europe from Asia?
The Urals