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Questions 1. MEDICAL: What is the medical name for joints that pop and crack? 2. LITERATURE: What is the name of the annual award for the best science fiction or fantasy writing? 3. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What was the Secret Service’s code name for President John F. Kennedy? 4. MOVIES: What was the name of the girl gang in the movie “Grease”? 5. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Which top college’s motto is “duty, honor, country”? 6. PERSONALITIES: In which state was author Tennessee Williams born? 7. FOOD & DRINK: Which popular liquor is made from fermented a...
* It was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who made the following sage observation: “All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” * In Washington state it once was illegal to carry a concealed weapon that was more than 6 feet in length. * Dominique Bouhours, a Frenchman who lived in the 17th century, was a priest, an essayist and a grammarian. The love of language may have been closest to his heart, though; it’s been reported that the final words he utter...
Questions 1. LANGUAGE: What does the Greek suffix "-stasis" mean in English? 2. GEOGRAPHY: How many continents are in the world? 3. INVENTIONS: Who invented the nuclear reactor? 4. TELEVISION: In what year did "Monday Night Football" debut? 5. FOOD & DRINK: What was the original name of the breakfast cereal Cheerios? 6. LITERATURE: Where did the Grinch live in Dr. Seuss' book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"? 7. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president was the first to campaign by telephone? 8. MOVIES: Which war was the setting for the musical "South...
* It was Henry Brooks Adams, American historian and descendant of two U.S. presidents, who made the following sage observation: "They know enough who know how to learn." * Spanish explorers named California after a mythical island of Amazon women ruled by a warrior queen named Califa. * Though an electric eel is born with the ability to see, by the time it becomes an adult it is blind. This lack of sight is not a hindrance, though; the fish uses electricity to create an image of its surroundings in much the same way that we use radar. The...
Questions 1. MOVIES: Which 1969 movie featured the song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"? 2. LITERATURE: What is the name of Harry's owl in the "Harry Potter" book series? 3. MUSIC: Which American actor performs music as his alter ego Childish Gambino? 4. FOOD & DRINK: Which kids' snack, contained in a box with a string handle, was first marketed in 1902? 5. GAMES: In what game is a shuttlecock used? 6. SPACE: Who piloted America's first and shortest flight into space? 7. ANIMAL KINGDOM: Which fish is the fastest in the world? 8. GEOGRAPHY:...
* It was 20th-century American author Margaret Mitchell -- best known, of course, for her Civil War-era novel "Gone With the Wind" -- who made the following sage observation: "Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is." * It seems that the Germans have a word for everything. For instance, "waldeinsamkeit" describes the feeling of being alone in the woods. * In rural Wisconsin in 1921, two third-grade students in a one-room schoolhouse became sweethearts. At the end of the school year,...
