the BIG QUIZ

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What does a Mongoose eat?
As the song goes, "I love you a bushel and a peck..." , if you add a bushel and a peck, how many quarts do I love you?
What is the capital of Vermont?
How fast is the speed of light?
Which is further west: Los Angeles, California or Reno, Nevada?
What was SOYLENT GREEN made out of?
What was the name of Shakespeare's theater at Stratford-on-the-Avon?
In what family of musical instruments is a piano?
What is the smallest city that has a major league professional sports franchise?
What is the minimum age for becoming President of the United States?
What is measured in ohms?
Who did the United States buy Alaska from?
What is a writ of habeas corpus?
What company made Beanie Babies?
How many yards are in a mile?
Where did Toulouse-Lautrec spend his time painting pictures of Can-Can girls?
What was the most points scored by one player in an NBA basketball game?
What was the name of the family who faced hard times moving from Oklahoma to California in the book GRAPES OF WRATH?
What country was once named Persia?
What color is vermillion?
Who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates?
What was Benjamin Franklin's trade?
What was the TROUBLE in River City?
What animal did Hannibal use to cross the Alps?
What year was the Ford Mustang introduced?
What usually happens to DIRTY HARRY's partners?
Where is the U.S. Naval Academy located?
Who wrote the symphony PETER AND THE WOLF?
How many moons does Mars have?
How long does a copyright last?
What did Ozzy Osbourne bite the head off of while on stage?
What is the correct pronunciation of the capital of Kentucky: Lewis-ville or Louie-ville?
What is the main ingredient in sauerkraut?
Who invented fireworks?
What is the widest river in the world?
Who should have been afraid on the Ides of March?
What was Captain Nemo captain of?
How many millimeters are in a kilometer?
What is the only state that does not switch to Daylight Savings Time?
What does EXXON mean?
Where can you spend a zlotny?
Who produced the Beatles' records?
Why was the Boston Tea Party held?
What is the temperature of absolute zero in Fahrenheit?
How fast is a knot?
What city has the zip code 90210?
Who sang the hit BIG BAD JOHN and owned a sausage company?
What is Mark Twain's real name?
In what direction does the water swirl in a toilet bowl in Australia?
How many days did it take the Apollo spacecraft to get to the moon?
Who was Alexander the Great's father?
What is an obi?
Where does gelatin come from?
What is OLD FAITHFUL?
Who was both drummer for Nirvana and singer/guitarist for the Foo Fighters?
What product "Takes a licking and keeps on ticking"?
How often does Halley's Comet fly past the earth?
How many acres are in a square mile?
How many home runs did Hank Aaron hit in his career?
Who invented dynamite?
What is another name for Iron Pyrite?
What happened December 7, 1941?
What do you use an awl for?
What town has street lights shaped like a candy?
What was the first talkie motion picture?
What is the lead in a pencil made of?
What is Welsh Rarebit?
What do AM radio signals bounce off to carry them long distances?
What was the ARTFUL DODGER's boss's name in OLIVER TWIST?
What city was Jerry Springer the mayor of?
What do you use to play a dulcimer?
Is a football field larger or smaller than an acre?
What is the capital of Israel?
What does 10 to the -2 power equal?
What is the name of Scarlett O'Hara's home?
Who was the American chess master that defeated Boris Spasskey?
What was the name of the first home computer?
According to mythology, what river do you cross when you die?
What was a prune before it shriveled up?
What star is called the Dog Star?
Who was the first man to climb Mount Everest?
How high is a basketball hoop from the floor?
What was Willy Loman's occupation?
How far is the earth from the sun?
What mountain is at Disneyland but not at Disney World?
What great composer went deaf later in life?
What is Spam made from?
What was the first professional baseball team?
The call letters for Chicago TV and radio stations WLS originally stood for "World's Largest Store". What store was that?
What is abnormally warm water in the Pacific Ocean called?
What is the name of Thomas Jefferson's home?
What famous artist cut off his ear and gave it to a prostitute?
Olga Korbut won three gold medals in what Olympic sport?
What is Marjoram?
What is quicksilver?
Where is the Louvre?
If a horse race is 9 furlongs, how long is it in miles?
What city is called THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE?
Who created the MUPPETS?
If you are wearing a toque, what are you covering up?
Where would you find a quasar?
What is the cheapest property on a Monopoly board?
When was D-Day?
If it is 6:00 in Portland, Maine, what time is it in Trinidad, Colorado?
What are you doing if you bivouac?
What did SWEENEY TODD do with his victims?
What city is the group OUTKAST from?
Does a stalagmite hang down from a cave or rise up from a cavern floor?
What is the name of Snuffy Smith's son?
When NASCAR started, the drivers also did what for a living?
If your mother has blue eyes and your father has blue eyes can you have brown eyes?
In what country is Hudson Bay?
Who wrote the poem TREES?
What language is spoken in Brazil?
Who was the first man to step on the moon?
Who said, "There's a sucker born every minute"?
What group of people built STONEHENGE?
Where was Lee Harvey Oswald apprehended?
What is the record for the most points scored by a college football team in one game?
At the end of the Jerry Lewis MDA telethon, he always sings YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE. From what musical is that song?
Is the TROPIC OF CAPRICORN in the southern or northern hemisphere?
If the only clouds you see in the sky are cirrus, is it likely to rain?
How many representatives are in the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES?
What was Mohammed Ali's name before he changed it?
What are you if you are a toady?
What is the name of the haywire computer in 2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY?
What does PI equal?
Who was the founder of MOTOWN RECORDS?
Who was nicknamed The Wizard of Menlo Park?
On the golf course, what is an eagle?
What was the name of Adam and Eve's third son?
What does a Scotsman wear under his kilt?
Where is Mt. Fuji?
Who said: "I never met a man I didn't like"?
What instrument does Yo-Yo Ma play?
Who wrote the CANTERBURY TALES?
Wha was the first feature length animated motion picture?
What country gave the United States the STATUE OF LIBERTY?
HOYAS is the team nickname of what university?
What is lox?
Who were Rocky and Bullwinkle's Russian nemesis?
What famous honeymoon spot has also tempted many to go over it in a barrel?
Who invented the electric guitar?
Who was the last major league baseball player to hit over .400?
What vine from the orient is taking over the natural vegetation of the southeastern United States?
If you are walking around holding a divining rod, what are you looking for?
In mythology, a HARPY has a woman's head and a body of what?
What did Romeo do when he thought Juliet was dead?
Who was Millard Filmore?
What is a stamen a part of?
How many gold medals did Mark Spitz win in the 1972 Olympics?
According to the song by Weezer, I look like Buddy Holly. What do you look like?
What is located at the center of your chest that connects the two sides of your ribs?
What is measured in Kelvin?
During Shakespeare's time, what did they call theatergoers that bought cheap tickets and stood in front and below the stage?
Who has his picture on the two dollar bill?
What did Peter Minuit buy for about $24 worth of trinkets from the Indians?
What is Zulu time?
What is the tallest building in the United States?
What is longer: a statute mile or a nautical mile?
Who built the SPRUCE GOOSE?
What do you detect with a Geiger Counter?
What did Alfred Packer eat to stay alive when he and his party were trapped by snow in the Rocky Mountains?
What is the longest river in the world?
What is a pas de deaux?
Who built the first APPLE computer?
What is the name of the six foot tall rabbit that Edward P. Doud spoke to?
Where is your humerus?
What football team did Knute Rockne coach?
Where was the 1939 and 1964 World's Fair held?
How deep is a fathom?
Where might you eat a Vegemite sandwich?
What is a harvest moon?
What kind of cap did Davy Crockett wear?
What is a miter box used for?
What are the three branches of the U.S. government?
What is selling short?
What group did Smokey Robinson sing with?
How many days did Phineas Fogg bet he could go around the world in?
In order to cross Panama, a ship must travel uphill. What does the Panama Canal use to make this possible?
When asked why he robbed banks, who said: "Because that's where the money is"?
What is a circus geek's act?
What did Robert Fulton invent?
Where was Custer's Last Stand?
If it is Monday and you cross the International Dateline heading west, what day is it?
Which of the THREE STOOGES were brothers?
What is a loss leader?
Who wrote RHAPSODY IN BLUE?
What was the first animal sent into space?
What baseball team became known as the Black Sox?
What code consists of a series of dot and dashes?
What was the first music video shown on MTV?
Who was the law west of the Pecos?
What is the lowest point in the ocean named?
Who played the sadistic dentist who wanted to know "is it safe" in the movie MARATHON MAN?
Where is the PREAKNESS held?
In what theater was Abraham Lincoln shot?
What do you say when you make the winning move in chess?
Who was the Teddy Bear named after?
Keebler Cookies are supposedly baked by elves where?
What dance team does high kick routines in New York City?
What did Carrie Nation take with her into saloons?
What happened on Captain Bligh's ship?
What is an oeuvre?
What connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?
Where is the headquarters of Wal-Mart?
In household electrical wiring, what color is the hot wire?
What it at the bottom of a bottle of tequila?
How wide is a football field?
Who was the Teamster's president that disappeared and has never been found?
What are the primary colors?
In the book 1984, who was watching?
What is a sextant used for?
Norman Rockwell painter over 300 covers for what magazine?
Would you expect to find a Molotov Cocktail on the drink list at your local bar?
Who said, "Let them eat cake"?
What restaurant chain did Dave Thomas work for before starting Wendy's?
Who invented television?
Joe DiMaggio set a record by getting a hit in how many straight games?
What do you rub SEX WAX on?
Who was the first man to fly across the Atlantic?
What country are VOLVO, ABBA and IKEA from?
Who searched for the Fountain of Youth?
What is edelweiss?
What brand of toilet paper did Mr. Whipple get caught squeezing?
What NBA team plays on a court with a parquet floor?
Who guards a harem?
What was Captain Ahab chasing?
Where is the New Madrid Fault?
What is Atlantis?
How many sides does a rhombus have?
Where would you keep a budgie in your house?
What enables DUMBO to fly?
A horse's height is measured in hands. How wide is a hand?
What clef is a timpani's music parts written?
Who is the cover boy for MAD MAGAZINE?
Where would a spelunker go spelunking?
What is the capital of Nevada?
What sport did Pele play?
Who was the first American in space?
The band DURAN DURAN was named after a character in what 1960s Jane Fonda movie?
What couldn't Jack Sprat's wife eat?
What did Frank Lloyd Wright do?
Where is the MASTER'S golf tournament held?
Where do fools rush in?
What is another name for YETI?
How many cups are in a gallon?
What vice-president killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel?
What is an amoeba?
What happened to you if you couldn't answer Sphinx's riddle?
What is accapella?
Who drilled the first oil well?
How far is Cuba from Florida?
What company does Wiley Coyote get all of the stuff that he uses to try to catch the Roadrunner?
What is frozen to make dry ice?
Pompeii was buried by the eruption of what volcano?
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
What was the name of Paul Bunyan's blue ox?
What is an abattoir?
Which is not a wrestling hold: a half nelson or an ozzie nelson?
Who was the first man to sign th Declaration of Independence?
What religious sect makes household appliances?
Where are the Pampas?
What was the Hindenburg?
Where does Yogi Bear live?
Who devised the law of gravity after an apple fell from a tree and conked him on the head?
Where does the Chunnel go?
What does a koala eat?
What is a Luddite?
What newspaper do Clark Kent and Lois Lane work for?
They moved the London Bridge. Where is it?
What is an eponym?
Where is the stern on a ship?
What mythological person flew into the sun?
Who is the creator and producer of SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE?
What is a maven?
What teams played in the first Super Bowl?
Who was nicknamed OL' HICKORY?
Who wrote CALL OF THE WILD?
Does a stevedore fight bulls?
What are the characters names in THE ODD COUPLE?
Where do you find tundra?
Why were Jim Thorpe's Olympic gold medals taken away?
An ecydiatrist is another name for what profession?
Where is Timbuktu?
In baseball, what is a popup fly that falls between the infielders and the outfielders?
What is the name of B.B. King's guitar?
Who said, "Everyone is famous for fifteen minutes"?
What is the name of the famous floating gardens near Mexico City?
What city dd L'Enfant design?
Who are the HOKIES?
what is zeitgeist?
How many red stripes are on the United States flag?
What was the country Myanmar once called?
If all you see are cumulus clouds, is it likely to rain?
What is a locavore?
Name the 7 Dwarfs?

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