Football
The Super Bowl's MVP Award is named for who? This person also served as the NFL's Commissioner from 1960 to 1989
Pete Rozelle
What majestic bird serves as a symbol of the United States?
the bald eagle (When asked to suggest a national bird, Benjamin Franklin proposed the turkey!)
The American President also called the what?
the chief executive
This bird, is the only bird, that can fly backwards...
A modern airplane's "black box" is actually colored bright what to make it easier to find among wreckage.
Orange
Who holds the NFL record for most career receiving yards at 22,895?
Jerry Rice
Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are famous American what?
poets (of the 19th century)
If you flipped a penny and it landed “heads,” whose head would you see?
Abraham Lincoln’s (The penny is the only coin in circulation on which the portrait faces to the right.)
During Incubation the Emperor penguin may go up to how many months without eating?
two months
Who is the main villain in the “Series of Unfortunate Events” books by Lemony Snicket?
Count Olaf (The series started in 1999 with A Bad Beginning.)
Which team were the first NFL team to decorate their helmets?
The Rams
After nursing wounded soldiers in the Civil War, what organization did Clara Barton establish?
the American Red Cross (in 1881)
What is the presidential pardon?
the power to release a criminal from prison
Oldest goldfish on record was how old?
43
What do we call the wooden hammer that a judge uses to keep order in court?
gavel
In 1980 Superbowl XIV was held where? Was and stands as the most highly attended superbowl in history.
Pasadena's Rose Bowl
What do we call the boundary line that once separated slave states from non-slave states?
the Mason-Dixon Line (separating Maryland from Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware)
In Theodore Roosevelt’s household, who was Emily Spinach?
a pet snake (one of many Roosevelt pets)
President Lyndon Johnson had a pair of beagles named what?
Him and Her
How many presidents have the last name Johnson?
2. Lyndon Johnson and Andrew Johnson
The highest scoring game in College football history was in 1916 when _____ defeated Cumberland College 222-0. Who was this team?
Georgia Tech
Who were the four conspirators hanged for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln? (500pts per person named)
David Herold, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, and Marry Surratt
In 1964, did Lyndon B. Johnson declare a war on what?
poverty
The three AKC-recongized dog breeds that have miniature in their name are what? (500pts per correct breed)
miniature pinscher, miniature bull terrier, and miniature schnauzer
What are the five mother sauces of french cooking? (500pts for each correct sauce)
bechamel, veloute, espangnole, sauce tomat, and hollandaise