Christmas Trivia
Commissioned by Sir Henry Cole in London in 1843, this paper item featured a festive family scene and became the world's very first commercial one of its kind.
What is a Christmas Card
Though highly advanced, these energy weapons were frequently set to "stun" by the crew to neutralize threats without killing them.
What are phasers
This former U.S. Secretary of War served as the first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis
This Bavarian city famously hosts the world's largest Volksfest, a 16-to-18 day beer festival held annually since 1810.
What is Munich
This massive global panic at the turn of the millennium forced thousands of retired COBOL programmers back to work to fix two-digit year fields.
What is Y2K
This red-and-white, mint-flavored hard candy was originally shaped like straight sticks before being bent into a hook to represent a shepherd's crook.
What is a candy cane
This iconic sci-fi creator pitched his space-faring series to television executives as a "Western in outer space" or a "Wagon Train to the stars."
Who is Gene Roddenberry
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman famously captured Atlanta before launching his destructive 1864 "March to" this coastal city.
What is Savannah
To make malted grain, brewers traditionally use this specific cereal grass grain, which is soaked, sprouted, and dried in a kiln.
What is barely
Developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995, this object-oriented language famously promised developers they could "write once, run anywhere."
What is Java
In the classic holiday poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, these are the first two reindeer named in the lineup.
Who are Dasher and Dancer
In a classic 1967 episode, Kirk must battle a lizard-like captain of this aggressive alien race on a desert planet.
Who are the Gorn
The USS Monitor famously clashed with this modified Confederate ironclad, originally named the USS Merrimack, at the Battle of Hampton Roads.
What is the CSS Virginia
This cloudy, top-fermented Belgian beer style translates to "white beer" and is traditionally spiced with coriander and orange peel.
What is a witbier (or wit)
This pioneering, high-level language created by John Backus at IBM in the 1950s gets its name from "Formula Translation."
What is Fortran
Governed by strict specifications on shape and size, the official Christmas tree in this Manhattan plaza is traditionally a Norway Spruce.
What is the Rockefeller Center
Before William Shatner took the center chair, this actor played Captain Christopher Pike in the series' original, unbroadcast pilot episode "The Cage".
Who is Jeffrey Hunter
This September 1862 clash in Maryland remains the bloodiest single-day battle in American military history.
What is the Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg)
Passed in 1516, the German Reinheitsgebot was a famous regulation restricting beer ingredients to water, barley, and this plant part.
What are hops. (Note: Yeast was added to the law later once discovered)
Bjarne Stroustrup designed this extension of the C programming language to add object-oriented features, using two plus signs in its name.
What is C++
In 1965, astronauts Walter Schirra Jr. and Thomas P. Stafford smuggled a tiny harmonica aboard Gemini 6 to play this classic tune, making it the first song broadcast from space.
What is the Jingle Bells
To save his home planet from destruction, Spock must return to Vulcan to undergo this agonizing, animalistic mating cycle.
What is Pon Farr
Scott's Great Snake was the popular nickname for this comprehensive Union strategy to blockade Southern ports and split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan
Monks of this strict Roman Catholic order are famous for brewing highly coveted, authenticated beers like Westvleteren and Chimay.
What are Trappists
Brendan Eich famously created this fundamental web language in just 10 days in 1995 while working at Netscape.
What is JavaScript