Food
The simple Italian salad known as a Caprese salad typically includes tomatoes, basil, and what variety of cheese?
Mozzarella
“At first I was afraid, I was petrified,” is the opening lyric of what 1978 groovy Gloria Gaynor hit?
I Will Survive
In what 1987 movie does Baby Houseman fall in love with her dance instructor?
Dirty Dancing
What do you call an animal that eats a variety of other organisms, including plants, animals and fungi?
An omnivore
Scientists would like to resurrect the woolly kind of which trunked mammal believed to have gone extinct around 1650 B.C.?
Mammoth
Kombu, Wakame, and Hijiki are all edible types of what plant, which is also known as macroalgae or nori on a sushi menu?
Seaweed
What 1982 Toto song, whose title is a continent, experienced a resurgence in popularity in 2018 when Weezer covered the song?
Africa
The movie includes a titular track from Kenny Loggins, Kevin Bacon performs much of his character's dancing, and John Lithgow leads the charge to ban dancing. All of this occurs in what 1984 film?
Footloose
How do you determine the age of a tree?
Count its growth rings
Providing its name (and its image for the logo) to a modern piece of modern language learning software, what ancient stone slab discovered in Egypt in 1799 provided the key to deciphering hieroglyphics, and is now the most visited item on display in the British Museum?
The Rosetta Stone
What common leafy green is native to Persia and is often associated with a specific cartoon character who made his maritime debut in 1929?
Spinach
In her 2005 hit “Hung Up” Madonna sampled “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)” by which Swedish supergroup?
ABBA
Who was the first character to speak in the first Star Wars movie? This anxiety-ridden sidekick stands five feet and eight inches tall.
C3PO
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
Also the name of a 2014 movie which depicts the eruption, which city in present-day Italy was buried in a blanket of ash and pumice when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD?
Pompeii
A favorite of Star Trek's Captain Picard, which tea blend is named after the British Prime Minister from 1830 to 1834?
Earl Grey
What 1993 dance craze was brought into the world by Spanish group Los del Rio?
The Macarena
Political activist and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore is from what now-infamous Michigan city?
Flint
What scale is used to measure the hardness of minerals?
The Mohs’ scale
The name of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, is the site of which modern-day city?
Istanbul
Considered a loan word from Greek, what is the difficult-to-spell name of the dip or sauce made of strained yogurt, cucumbers, garlic, and other seasonings? It is most often served cold as part of an appetizer.
Tzatziki
Mika released a hit song in 2007 named after which ‘50s Hollywood starlet who later became the Princess of Monaco?
Grace Kelly
Red-Rum and Garden Maze are cocktails at The Overlook Lodge, a Cincinnati bar designed as a tribute to what 1980 Stanley Kubrick film?
The Shining
What element is the most commonly used to create nuclear energy?
Uranium
In ancient Greece, which term referred to an Athenian democratic procedure in which a citizen could be expelled from Athens for ten years? In modern usage, this term means exclusion by general consent from common privileges or social acceptance.
Ostracism