General
What store sells the most wine in the United States?
Costco
Which artist's garden attracts tourists to Giverny in France?
Claude Monet's garden
What popular destination helped popularize hot dogs in the US in the 19th century?
Coney Island
Who was the first President to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
Theodore Roosevelt -- He won the prize in 1906 in recognition of his accomplishment acting as mediator between Russia and Japan, which ended the countries' conflict.
What is the deadliest creature in the world?
A Mosquito
What type of rock dominates Yosemite National Park?
Granite
How many spikes are on the Statue of Liberty's crown?
7
What language do the majority of musical terms stem from?
Italian
The Great Barrier Reef sits off the coast of what Australian state?
Queensland
What bird was the first to be domesticated by man?
Goose
What type of farm animal can sunburn?
A pig
A jellyfish is made up of 95% of what?
Water
In Alaska, it’s legal to shoot bears, but illegal to do what to one?
Wake one up
Who wrote the novel "Across the River and into the Trees"?
Ernest Hemmingway
Which US state is nicknamed the "Wolverine State"?
Michigan
Which ancient people first mined and smelted copper circa 5000 B.C.?
Egyptians
What is a group of parrots called?
A pandemonium
What was the first planet to be discovered with a telescope?
Uranus
A silhouette of which player is widely recognized as the inspiration behind the official NBA logo designed in 1969?
Jerry West
What Victor Hugo title character was enamored with a poor gypsy girl named Esmerelda?
Quasimodo
What U.S. mountain range has a "road to nowhere"?
Great Smokey Mountains
Which national park is widely recognized as the world's first national park?
Yellowstone National Park -- President Ulysses S. Grant signed the law making Yellowstone a national park on March 1, 1872.
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as which animal?
An Elephant
What metal is also known as quicksilver?
Mercury
What is a "Castanet"?
A Musical Instrument
What US state are a large portion of Stephen King's novels based in?
Maine
Which country do the Shetland Islands belong to?
What was the Leaning Tower of Pisa originally used as?
A bell tower
What is the only non-primate with fingerprints?
Koalas
What brightly colored monkey is the world's largest?
The Madrill