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Sb is the chemical symbol for what metal that apparently used to be called “stibium”?

Antimony

Greek/Latin for “against” makes up the first two syllables of the 51st element’s name

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Who won the 97th Academy Awards for best actress for her role in Anora

Mickey Madison

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Literally meaning “guilty mind“, this phrase is heard in courtrooms regarding a defendant’s criminal intent

Mens rea

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Tim Curry was dressed for success as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in this 1975 cult movie

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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This man wrote of his ecological findings with a quill made from an eagle’s feather found on Yosemite’s Mount Hoffmann

John Muir

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Characterized by misshapen erythrocytes , this form of anemia disproportionately affects people of African descent

Sickle cell

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New Glasgow in the north of this Canadian province was once the area’s industrial heart

Nova Scotia

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Based in the Hammersmith and Fulham borough of London, this British pro soccer team is nicknamed “The Blues“

Chelsea

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This Egyptian port city that lends its name to an important conduit lies in Africa, right on the edge of Asia

Suez

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The U.S. has always made the Olympic podium in men’s basketball, except what year when they didn’t show up at all?

1980

Also that year, Robert Mugabe was first elected as prime minister of Zimbabwe

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Also aptly called a “scaly anteater,” what distinctive-looking critter gets its name from the Malay for “roller” due its balled-up defensive stance?

Pangolin

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Beast Mode is a line of apparel owned by former NFL running back Marshawn WHO?

Lynch

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Nicknamed “Junior” he played centerfield for the Seattle Mariners from 1989 to 1999

Ken Griffey Junior

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This genre-crossing 2024 album included a cover of the Beatles’ “Blackbird“

Cowboy Carter

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The Western States Bankcard Association provided the two-circle logo of what company that once had “Charge” in its name?

Mastercard

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Nepalese people try to cure various ailments by drinking the blood of (but not actually killing) what giant pack animal?

Yak

A dzo is the offspring of a cow and yak (both ungulates)

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Indie rock darling, Lucy Dacus wowed fans with a dreamy cover of this 90s Cher smash

Believe

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What is the capital of Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou

Landlocked country. Flag is red and green with a yellow star in the middle

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El Meco, Tulum & Uxmal are all remnants of former cities in this peninsula

Yucatán Peninsula

Mayan ruins

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Nearly as famous as π, φ represents a number near 1.618 that’s also known as the Golden WHAT?

Ratio

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I would rather not drive the vertiginous highway over the Fagaras mountains in this region of Romania, scary enough without the monsters

Transylvania

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It’s 8 miles and about a €30 cab ride from Dún Laoghaire Harbor into the heart of this city

Dublin

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The original limit for a tweet on Twitter was this many characters

140

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Which U.K. constituent country has a totally rad dragon on its flag?

Wales

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Besides his affair, former senator John Edwards is probably best known as the running mate of what presidential nominee?

John Kerry In 2016 this Massachusetts guy became the first U.S. Secretary of State to visit Antarctica

With the Cabrillo National Monument at its tip, Point Loma guards the harbor entrance in what West Coast city?

San Diego

Found all over the Northern Hemisphere, one of the most common birds used in falconry is the Golden species of what bird that isn't a falcon?

Eagle

Puerto Miranda and Cabimas are ports on this 5000-square-mile so-called lake, an inlet of the Caribbean Sea

Lake Maracaibo

The same year as "Driving Miss Daisy," what soothing-voiced actor played a school principal in "Lean on Me"?

Morgan Freeman

Dickens saluted this writer as “my dear sir” but also expressed doubt that it was actually a man behind the name (it wasn’t)

George Eliot

Founder August Horch's surname means "listen" in German, so they translated it to Latin for the name of what car company?

Audi

Latin: Translate & now live! — the phrase Audentes fortuna juvat

Fortune favors the bold

Hold your horses! One of the periods in a game of polo, it’s from Sanskrit for “circle“

chukker

Landlocked in: Gaborone is the capital of this nation, the world’ second largest diamond producer by value

Botswana

You can hail what'll likely be a Mercedes taxi to visit the impressive BMW Museum in what city?

Munich / München

In the 1930s Warner Brothers featured animated shorts titled “Looney Tunes“ and this alliterative companion one

Merrie Melodies

Civil War vet John Pemberton‘s attempt to make an opiate free painkiller eventually let him to create this drink

Coca-Cola

If a Brit says you need a “brolly,” what's that?

Umbrella

Though he was on a tag team called the Blade Runners, what one-named wrestler was apparently not connected to Bilbo Baggins' lil sword?

Sting

As immortalized in the name of a well-known Chinese language variant, what's the traditional English name of Guangzhou?

Canton Sorta like the U.S., Switzerland is a confederation of 26 subdivisions. They are called cantons

Paul Simon said this Yankee was baffled by a lyric in "Mrs. Robinson", telling Paul, "I haven't gone anywhere"

Joe DiMaggio

In 1992 this state replaced the words "The Sunshine State" on its flag with the words "The Mount Rushmore State"

South Dakota

“Daft Punk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Aqua all have songs with what three word title?”

Around the World

Coming out 3 years later to far less success, "James and the Giant Peach" was director Henry Selick's follow-up to what classic stop-motion musical?

Nightmare Before Christmas (Produced by Tim Burton)

Despite having lost an arm at Shiloh, this geologist led the first party to descend the Colorado river through the Grand Canyon

John Wesley Powell

Since the 2010s, low-cost Ryanair has sported what schmancy instrument in their logo?

Harp

Winner of a British Sports Book Award, Jonathan Wilson's "Inverting the Pyramid" lunges into the evolution of tactics in what sport?

Soccer

Element #117 is called Tennessine, partly in honor of the Manhattan Project production site at Oak WHAT?

Ridge

This company’s only US production facility builds X3 and X5 vehicles in South Carolina

BMW

Arroz Valenciana has been called a Filipino version of this dish

Paella

The 10 lost tribes of this nation are so-called because they disappeared from history following an Assyrian invasion

Israel

A great many of the stars in the Milky Way are this type, referring to a pair rotating around each other

Binary

Wendell these, which live farther south than any other mammal, are named for an explorer, who once hunted them

Seals

In 1901 Henri Dunant shared the inaugural Nobel peace prize for founding this humanitarian organization

Red Cross

This Egyptian port city that lends its name to an important conduit lies in Africa right on the edge of Asia

Suez

This women's college may have a common name, but it boasts some very uncommon alums--Gloria Steinem, Julia Child & Betty Friedan

Smith

what is the name of Dixon Company's iconic yellow number two pencil, named after the upstate New York site of its graphite processing?

Ticonderoga

“what former boy band member has also served as the announcer for Family Feud, hosted the game show Common Knowledge, and has been the announcer for several special episodes of Impractical Jokers.

Joey Fatone

The suffix -itis has come to mean inflammation; therefore, by definition, the medical condition hepatitis is the inflammation of what?

Liver

Take a ferry from Cannaregio in this city to get to the island of Murano and check out some glass blowing

Venice

“The Last Man on Earth,” “The Omega Man,” and this 2007 film are all adaptations of a tale by Richard Matheson

I Am Legend

Until "White Christmas", "My Blue" this was the all-time best-selling record

Heaven

Collectors of these pieces of hardware know that in the 1880s Mallory Wheeler produced exceptional ones

Doorknobs

The main artery leaving the heart, its diameter can be as big as a garden hose

Aorta

The pretty rad flag of Albania prominently features a two-headed example of what animal?

Eagle

In the days before they just churned out "Star Wars" games, LucasArts made an underrated adventure in the Aztec afterlife called "WHAT Fandango"?

Grim

Working around Mussolini-era shortages, what Florentine baggage brand developed the tanning technique "cuoio grasso"?

Gucci

This 1995 hit begins, “If God had a name what would it be?”

“One of Us” Joan Osborne

A floral summer dress made from this cotton fabric named for a city in India

Calico

Nicolas Cage has a son named Kal-El, which is also the birth name of this superhero

Superman

The plot to murder Abraham Lincoln included an attempt on the life of this Secretary of State

William H. Seward

Around the time of the Medellin Cartel's ascent, an "Anonymous" 12-step program was established for what narcotic?

Cocaine

In the U.S., pretty much everyone eats the "wild" cassia type of what seasoning made from the inner bark of laurel trees?

Cinnamon

Answer in English! In Japan, "kiraibashi" is a very specific term for a faux pas committed at the dining table with WHATS?

Chopsticks

This ancient Chinese game is played with 361 pieces called stones

X’s 1980 debut album “Los Angeles” was produced by Rat Manzarek, keyboardist for this other classic LA band

The Doors

An old hippie intentionally drives through a window so he can keep getting checks from the government, to open the novel that inspired what 2025 film?

One Battle After Another Ronald Reagan's former home in Sacramento makes an appearance as the headquarters of the Christmas Adventurers Club, in this critical darling film

This 1989 Oscar nominee was based on the WP Kinsella book “Shoeless Joe”

Field of Dreams

Alburt Bandura tested kids' propensity for violence with the "Bobo doll experiment," at a nursery attached to what university?

Stanford

A series of massive engineering projects that flattened into Hill in Seattle between 1897 and 1930, transforming the cities, landscape and enabling urban expansion

The Denny Regrade Denny Hill, located between downtown Seattle and Queen Anne Hill, originally rose over 100 feet above the surrounding business district and covered approximately 62 blocks. The hill was considered a major obstacle to transportation and urban development, prompting city planners and engineers to undertake a series of regrades to level the area. The project ultimately created the mostly flat land now known as the Denny Regrade neighborhood.

It’s the most plentiful element in earth’s atmosphere

Nitrogen

Steve Martin, DDS, sang, “you’ll be a dentist, you have a talent for causing things pain!” in this carnivorous plant-based movie

Little Shop of Horrors

He starred alongside André Gregory in *My Dinner with André* and as Vizzini in *The Princess Bride*

Wallace Shawn

Apart from its coastline along the South China Sea, Brunei is fully surrounded by this nation

Malaysia

The biggest Texas city with a Spanish name, in 1953 it got with Monterrey and became the first US city to have a Mexican sister city

San Antonio

She adopted the middle initial K for a book series and used Robert Galbraith as a pen name for her Cormoran Strike novels.

J. K. Rowling

He was canonized more than 100 years after he volunteered to minister to patients with leprosy on the island of Molokai

Father Damien

In 1995 this matriarch died in Hyannis Port at the age of 104

Rose Kennedy

Architect Julia Morgan’s records on this California castle show a cost under $10 million, even with 41 fireplaces

San Simeon (or the Hearst Castle)

Relics from Danish Sugar plantation days can be seen in the museum on this largest of the US Virgin Islands

St. Croix

Sikorsky developed a rotary wing craft called this in the 1980s, a few years after Luke first flew the same named starfighter

X wing

The 1992 Olympics in this Spanish city were the first boycott-free summer games in 20 years

Barcelona

This Ronald Reagan nickname came from a role he played in the movie “Knute Rockne All American”

The Gipper

Congaree National Park is roughly 20 miles south east of this southern capital

Columbia (In South Carolina)

Iron, which makes up 5% of the earth’s crust, is second in abundance to this among metals, which must please Alcoa

Aluminum

Chow mein has crispy noodles; the name of this boiled noodle and stir fried meat and veggies dish means “soft noodles“

Lo mein

He produced the TV shows “All the Family“, “Maude” and “The Jeffersons”, among others

Norman Lear

No surprise this all-time MLB hit king holds the record with 31 opening day hits

Pete Rose (as of at least 2026)

“what Cutting Crew song has the parenthetical title, I Just?”

Died in your arms

On April 19, 1951, this general told Congress, “I now close my military career and just fade away”

General Douglas MacArthur

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