History/Geography
Beijing is the capitol of which country?
China
Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner take a trip to Cincy in "The Road to Cincinnati," a Season 32 episode of what long-running animated series?
The Simpsons
In which buzzing US city does the spaceship-like Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum call home?
New York
Which appealing yellow fruit is slightly radioactive due to its high potassium content?
Banana
In what year was the first Scrabble board game sold?
1948.
Which military leader conquered the Persian Empire, India and Egypt, among others to become one of the most notorious conqueror of all time?
Alexander the Great
Jack Nicholson starred in this book-turned-movie, about a mental hospital run by Nurse Ratched
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Which actor played the role of Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, adapted from the book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald?
Leonardo DiCaprio.
Waxy buildup in the human ear is actually a form of what type of wet skin excretion?
Sweat
On a chess board, which piece can only move one space?
The King.
What is the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
What 1960s sci-fi TV show, co-starring June Lockhart and Bill Mumy, is about the Robinson family and their space mission that went off course?
Answer: Lost In Space
The best-known work of Japanese artist Hokusai is "The Great Wave off Kanagawa," part of a larger series called "36 Views of" what famous volcano?
Mount Fuji
What land animal has the most powerful bite?
Hippopotamus
What golfer invented the modern sand wedge?
Gene Sarazen.
What was the name of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant that was the site of a nuclear disaster in April 1986?
Chernobyl
Marilyn Monroe
Who wrote Rip Van Winkle?
Washington Irving.
Where on the body are a crab’s taste buds?
Its toes
What is the only team in the NFL to neither host nor play in the Super Bowl?
Cleveland Browns.
El Pilar, located in what is now Belize, and Tikal, located in what is now Guatemala, are among the great cities of what ancient Mesoamerican civilization.
Maya
A string quartet is traditionally composed for one cello, one viola, and two of which instrument?
Violin
Featuring 36 silk-screen paintings and 13 drawings in the artist's signature colorful pop style, "Cars" is a series of artworks commissioned by Mercedes-Benz in the 1980s from what artist?
Andy Warhol
Which gas used to make dental work pain-free was discovered in 1844 by Horace Wells, who watched people volunteer to suck it in and act goofy under its effects?
Nitrous oxide
Bonus fact: These laughing gas events were called “frolics.”
The dimples on a golf ball give in traction on the terrain. How many dimples does an average golf ball have?
336.