People & Places
The Navajo people refer to this natural wonder as "The House of Stone and Light."
What is the Grand Canyon?
Christopher Wallace chose this as his nom-de-rap on his mutil-platinum CDs.
Who is Notorious B.I.G.?
This city had 11 of its major roadways destroyed by a 1994 earthquake.
What is Los Angeles?
This is the only insect that produces food that humans eat.
What are honeybees?
Curly Lambeau founded this football team in 1919.
What are the Green Bay Packers?
Thanks to the magic of visual effects, this dead toe-tapper was shown dancing with a cordless vacuum cleaner in a 1990s TV ad.
Who is Fred Astaire?
This is the distance between home plate and the pitching rubber in Major League Baseball.
What is sixty feet, six inches?
This Jacobean writer wrote The Alchemist.
Who is Ben Jonson?
This Massachusetts spot is hyped as "America's Hometown."
What is Plymouth?
This hit single of the seventies was resurrected in the 1990's thanks to the dancing baby on Ally McBeal.
What is 'Hooked on a Feeling?"
This Republican took exception to being labeled "The Human Edsel"
Who is Richard Nixon?
This Greek guy wrote METEOROLOGICA, popularizing that name for the study of weather.
Who is Aristotle?
This puzzle inventor was called the "first self-made millionaire in a Communist country."
Who is Erno Rubik?
Before moving to the U.S., Natalie Portman lived in this country for seven years.
What is Israel?
This is the fictional town that hosted the baseball game in Casey at the Bat.
What is Mudville?
This is the name that is on Oprah Winfrey's birth certificate.
What is Oprah Winfrey?
This New Mexico town has a radio station appropriately named, KBOM.
What is Los Alamos?
This comic strip doc waited 46 years to pop the question to Nurse Gale.
Who is Rex Morgan, M.D.?
The Sufis in Yemen were the first to drink this beverage in the 15th Century.
What is coffee?
Roger Bacon first proposed this spectacular use for glass in his Opus majus
What are eyeglasses?
In 1997 this guy drew groans when he announced he would seek a 4th term as IOC Chief.
Who is Juan Antonio Samaranch?
Sam Donaldson was heard gleefully singing this line from a Gary Puckett song during the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal?
"Young girl, get outta my life"
This man swung a 44 ounce bat the he nicknamed Black Betty.
Who is Babe Ruth?
This Ohio city's thriving hog industry earned it the nickname "Porkopolis" in the 1830s.
What is Cincinnatti?
This sitcom character was once named Toxic Waste Handler of the Month.
Who is Homer Simpson?
Who is Oliver North?
These five foot tall birds are the tallest North America.
What are whooping cranes?
Who is Eddie Debartolo?
Ellen DeGeneres considered playing this sport professionally.
What is golf?
Who is Snoopy?
This state has two cities named Evening Shade.
What is Arkansas?
Who are court jesters?
This stooge once tried to hide his five o'clock shadow from a TV audience with a product called Lazy-Shave.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Through 1998 the Boston Women's Health Book Collective had sold over 4 million copies of this reference book.
What is Our Bodies, Ourselves?
This man has won more Ryder Cup matches than any other golfer in history, through 1997.
Nick Faldo?
What is a hunting license?
This man was the first black baseball player to be named captain of a major league team.
Who is Willie Mays?