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In "The Twelve Days of Christmas," what gift arrives on the first day? Answer: A partridge in a pear tree
How many golden rings are in "The Twelve Days of Christmas"? Answer: Five
In the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas," how many reindeer pull the sleigh? Answer: Eight
In "A Visit from St. Nicholas," what creature was not stirring? Answer: A mouse
In "A Visit from St. Nicholas," what was hung by the chimney with care? Answer: The stockings
In "A Visit from St. Nicholas," what does St. Nicholas's belly shake like when he laughs? Answer: A bowl full of jelly
Which of Santa's reindeer shares a name with a space object that has a tail? Answer: Comet
In "Frosty the Snowman," what brings Frosty to life? Answer: An old silk hat
In "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," what kind of weather makes Santa ask for Rudolph's help? Answer: Fog
In "Deck the Halls," what plant decks the halls? Answer: Holly
In "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," what dessert do the singers ask for? Answer: Figgy pudding
In "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town," how many times does Santa check his list? Answer: Twice
In "Winter Wonderland," what do they build in the meadow? Answer: A snowman
In "The Nutcracker," which king leads the army that fights the Nutcracker? Answer: The Mouse King
What vegetable is the classic nose for a snowman? Answer: A carrot
How many points does a typical snowflake have? Answer: Six
What season is it in Australia at Christmas? Answer: Summer
What flavor is a classic red and white candy cane? Answer: Peppermint
What do children in the United States traditionally leave out for Santa on Christmas Eve? Answer: Milk and cookies
What does "Feliz Navidad" mean in English? Answer: Merry Christmas
What are wild reindeer called in North America? Answer: Caribou
In the nativity story, what did the wise men follow? Answer: A star
In the Bible story, in which town was Jesus born? Answer: Bethlehem
In "A Christmas Carol," which small boy says "God bless us, every one"? Answer: Tiny Tim
What do you open one door of each day in December until Christmas? Answer: An Advent calendar
What is Santa Claus traditionally called in the United Kingdom? Answer: Father Christmas
Who wrote "A Christmas Carol"? Answer: Charles Dickens
What is Scrooge's first name in "A Christmas Carol"? Answer: Ebenezer
In "A Christmas Carol," who is Scrooge's dead business partner? Answer: Jacob Marley
Which of the three spirits visits Scrooge first? Answer: The Ghost of Christmas Past
What two words does Scrooge use to dismiss Christmas? Answer: Bah, humbug
Who composed the music for the ballet "The Nutcracker"? Answer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
In "The Nutcracker," who rules the Land of Sweets? Answer: The Sugar Plum Fairy
In the story "The Gift of the Magi," what does Della sell to buy her husband a present? Answer: Her hair
In what language was "Silent Night" first written? Answer: German
In "Good King Wenceslas," on which feast day does the king look out? Answer: The Feast of Stephen
In "The Christmas Song," what is roasting on an open fire? Answer: Chestnuts
The reindeer names Donner and Blitzen come from Dutch and German words meaning what? Answer: Thunder and lightning
What does the X in "Xmas" stand for? Answer: Christ (X is the Greek letter chi)
From which country did the Christmas tree tradition spread to Britain and the United States? Answer: Germany
Which British queen helped make Christmas trees fashionable in the 1840s? Answer: Queen Victoria
Which country has sent a Christmas tree to Trafalgar Square in London since 1947? Answer: Norway
Santa Claus gets his name from which Dutch figure? Answer: Sinterklaas
Saint Nicholas was a bishop in a town in which modern country? Answer: Turkey
What is December 26 called in the United Kingdom? Answer: Boxing Day
On what date do Western churches celebrate Epiphany? Answer: January 6
What three gifts did the wise men bring in the Bible story? Answer: Gold, frankincense and myrrh
In what year did the Christmas Truce take place during World War I? Answer: 1914
What plant with white berries do people kiss under at Christmas? Answer: Mistletoe
What red-leafed Christmas plant is native to Mexico? Answer: Poinsettia
What tall Italian Christmas bread is dotted with dried fruit? Answer: Panettone
What French Christmas cake is shaped like a log? Answer: Bûche de Noël (Yule log)
What is traditionally hidden inside a British Christmas pudding for luck? Answer: A coin
What fish is the traditional Christmas Eve dinner in Poland and the Czech Republic? Answer: Carp
What paper tube do two people pull apart with a snap at a British Christmas dinner? Answer: A Christmas cracker
Halloween falls on the last day of which month? Answer: October
How many legs does a spider have? Answer: Eight
Are spiders insects? Answer: No, they are arachnids
Bats are the only mammals that can truly do what? Answer: Fly
To a botanist, is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable? Answer: A fruit
What is a carved pumpkin with a light inside called? Answer: A jack-o'-lantern
What do spiders make their webs from? Answer: Silk
What do you call a person in stories who turns into a wolf? Answer: A werewolf
What three words do children say at the door on Halloween? Answer: Trick or treat
What are the three colors of traditional candy corn? Answer: Yellow, orange and white
What is a witch's big cooking pot called? Answer: A cauldron
In stories, what do witches ride through the sky? Answer: A broomstick
In vampire stories, what smelly food keeps vampires away? Answer: Garlic
What do we call the wrapped, preserved bodies of ancient Egypt? Answer: Mummies
Which part of your skeleton protects your brain? Answer: The skull
In stories, what kind of moon makes a werewolf change? Answer: A full moon
What are baby bats called? Answer: Pups
Do bats sleep hanging upside down or lying down? Answer: Hanging upside down
What party game has players grab floating fruit with their teeth? Answer: Bobbing for apples
What animal is most often shown as a witch's pet? Answer: A black cat
What word describes animals that are active at night, like bats and owls? Answer: Nocturnal
In vampire stories, what can a vampire not see in a mirror? Answer: Its own reflection
Before pumpkins, what root vegetable did people in Ireland and Scotland most often carve into lanterns? Answer: Turnips
What ancient Celtic festival is Halloween usually traced back to? Answer: Samhain
What Christian feast day falls on November 1, the day after Halloween? Answer: All Saints' Day
The word Halloween is a short form of what older name? Answer: All Hallows' Eve
Who wrote the novel Dracula? Answer: Bram Stoker
Who wrote the novel Frankenstein? Answer: Mary Shelley
In the novel Frankenstein, is Frankenstein the scientist or the monster? Answer: The scientist
In what year was the novel Frankenstein first published? Answer: 1818
In the novel Dracula, what region is the Count's castle in? Answer: Transylvania
Transylvania is part of which modern country? Answer: Romania
What is the name of the professor who hunts Dracula in the novel? Answer: Van Helsing
What is it called when bats find their way by listening for echoes? Answer: Echolocation
What do vampire bats feed on? Answer: Blood
What is the word for a strong fear of spiders? Answer: Arachnophobia
In werewolf stories, what metal are the bullets that can stop one made of? Answer: Silver
Which Washington Irving story has a Headless Horseman? Answer: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Who wrote the poem The Raven? Answer: Edgar Allan Poe
What one word does the raven keep repeating in Poe's poem? Answer: Nevermore
Who wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Answer: Robert Louis Stevenson
What Massachusetts town held witch trials in 1692? Answer: Salem
In Irish folklore, which trickster is doomed to roam the night carrying a lantern? Answer: Stingy Jack (Jack of the Lantern)
In the novel Dracula, at what English seaside town does the Count's ship come ashore? Answer: Whitby
Which Shakespeare play has witches chanting "Double, double toil and trouble"? Answer: Macbeth
Which month comes first in the year? Answer: January
How many months are in a year? Answer: 12
How many days are in a leap year? Answer: 366
Which month gets an extra day in a leap year? Answer: February
How many seconds are in one minute? Answer: 60
What is the date of New Year's Eve? Answer: December 31
In which city does a glowing ball drop in Times Square at midnight on New Year's Eve? Answer: New York City
How often does a leap year usually come around? Answer: Every four years
Which city reaches midnight on New Year's Eve first: Sydney or London? Answer: Sydney
When it is New Year's Eve, what season is it in Australia? Answer: Summer
How many days are in January? Answer: 31
At what time on the clock does a new day begin? Answer: Midnight
What do we call a period of ten years? Answer: A decade
What do we call a period of one hundred years? Answer: A century
Which song about old friends do people sing at midnight on New Year's Eve? Answer: Auld Lang Syne
How many animals are in the Chinese zodiac? Answer: 12
Which lucky color covers the decorations at Chinese New Year? Answer: Red
About how many days does the Earth take to travel once around the sun? Answer: About 365
January is named after which Roman god with two faces? Answer: Janus
Which month is named after Julius Caesar? Answer: July
The name December comes from the Latin word for which number? Answer: Ten
Which Scottish poet wrote down the words to "Auld Lang Syne"? Answer: Robert Burns
Which country does the song "Auld Lang Syne" come from? Answer: Scotland
What does "auld lang syne" mean in plain English? Answer: Old times, or days gone by (word for word, "old long since")
In "Auld Lang Syne", the singers promise to take a cup of what? Answer: Kindness
What is New Year's Eve called in Scotland? Answer: Hogmanay
What is the Scottish custom of being the first visitor through a door after midnight called? Answer: First-footing
On New Year's Eve in Japan, how many times do Buddhist temples ring their bells? Answer: 108
Which noodles do people in Japan eat on New Year's Eve? Answer: Soba (buckwheat noodles)
In Spain, people eat twelve of which fruit at midnight, one for each chime of the clock? Answer: Grapes
In Italy, which small legumes are eaten at New Year because they look like coins? Answer: Lentils
Which peas are eaten for luck on New Year's Day in the American South? Answer: Black-eyed peas
Which imaginary line in the Pacific Ocean marks where each new calendar day begins? Answer: The International Date Line
What is the name of the calendar most of the world uses? Answer: The Gregorian calendar
Which pope is the Gregorian calendar named after? Answer: Pope Gregory XIII
A year ending in 00 is a leap year only if it divides evenly by which number? Answer: 400
What is the Jewish New Year called? Answer: Rosh Hashanah
What is the Persian New Year, celebrated at the spring equinox, called? Answer: Nowruz
Which animal comes first in the Chinese zodiac? Answer: The rat
In the earliest Roman calendar, which month began the year? Answer: March
What is New Year's Eve called in Germany? Answer: Silvester
In Brazil, what color do many people wear on New Year's Eve for peace and good luck? Answer: White
In Greece, what is baked inside the New Year's cake called vasilopita? Answer: A coin
What are the deep-fried dough balls eaten on New Year's Eve in the Netherlands called? Answer: Oliebollen
In Denmark, what do people jump off at midnight to leap into the new year? Answer: A chair or sofa
Which bird is the traditional main dish at Thanksgiving dinner? Answer: Turkey
In which month is Thanksgiving celebrated in the United States? Answer: November
Which Thursday of November is Thanksgiving in the United States? Answer: The fourth Thursday
What was the name of the ship that carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620? Answer: The Mayflower
Plymouth, where the Pilgrims settled, is in which present-day US state? Answer: Massachusetts
Which Native American people joined the Pilgrims at the 1621 harvest feast? Answer: The Wampanoag
According to a colonist who was there, how many days did the 1621 harvest feast last? Answer: Three days
Which president proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving in 1863? Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Which magazine editor spent years writing to presidents to ask for a national Thanksgiving holiday? Answer: Sarah Josepha Hale
Which president signed the 1941 law that fixed the date of Thanksgiving? Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is a female turkey called? Answer: A hen
What is a baby turkey called? Answer: A poult
What is the red flap of skin that hangs under a turkey's chin called? Answer: A wattle
What is the fleshy flap that hangs over a turkey's beak called? Answer: A snood
What sound is a turkey famous for making? Answer: A gobble
Can wild turkeys fly? Answer: Yes, for short distances
Which turkey bone do two people pull apart to make a wish? Answer: The wishbone
Which berry is used to make the classic red Thanksgiving sauce? Answer: Cranberry
Cranberries grow in wet fields that farmers flood at harvest. What are those fields called? Answer: Bogs (called marshes in Wisconsin)
What is stuffing usually called when it is baked in its own dish, especially in the South? Answer: Dressing
Which nut is the main ingredient in a classic Southern Thanksgiving pie? Answer: Pecan
What is the name of the horn-shaped basket shown overflowing with harvest foods? Answer: A cornucopia, or horn of plenty
The best-known Thanksgiving Day parade, famous for its giant balloons, is held in which city? Answer: New York City
Which holiday figure arrives at the very end of the big Thanksgiving Day parade? Answer: Santa Claus
Which NFL team has hosted a Thanksgiving Day game nearly every year since 1934? Answer: The Detroit Lions
Which Texas team traditionally hosts an NFL game on Thanksgiving Day? Answer: The Dallas Cowboys
What do shoppers call the day after Thanksgiving? Answer: Black Friday
Which country celebrates its Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October? Answer: Canada
Which Founding Father wrote in a letter that the turkey was a more respectable bird than the bald eagle? Answer: Benjamin Franklin
Which crop did Tisquantum, also known as Squanto, teach the Pilgrims to plant? Answer: Corn
What agreement did the Pilgrims sign aboard their ship before going ashore? Answer: The Mayflower Compact
The ship that carried the Pilgrims to America set sail from which country? Answer: England
Which ocean did the Pilgrims cross to reach America? Answer: The Atlantic Ocean
Which orange side dish is often baked with marshmallows on top? Answer: Sweet potatoes (often called yams)
Which vegetable goes into the classic casserole topped with crispy fried onions? Answer: Green beans
What is the popular name for a Thanksgiving meal shared with friends? Answer: Friendsgiving
Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves are the usual spices in which Thanksgiving pie? Answer: Pumpkin pie
Which amino acid in turkey often gets the blame for the nap after dinner? Answer: Tryptophan
In American football, how many points is a touchdown worth? Answer: Six
What do you call a chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey? Answer: A turducken
What is the name of the famous boulder said to mark where the Pilgrims came ashore? Answer: Plymouth Rock
Do pumpkins grow on a tree, a bush or a vine? Answer: A vine
Which war was the United States fighting when Thanksgiving was proclaimed a national holiday in 1863? Answer: The Civil War
Which vegetable is mashed with butter and milk for a classic Thanksgiving side? Answer: Potatoes
What planet is known as the Red Planet? Answer: Mars
What is the largest planet in our solar system? Answer: Jupiter
What gas do plants take in from the air to make their food? Answer: Carbon dioxide
What is the chemical symbol for gold? Answer: Au
What is the chemical symbol for iron? Answer: Fe
What gemstone sits at the top of the Mohs hardness scale? Answer: Diamond
What force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth? Answer: Gravity
How many bones are in the adult human body? Answer: 206
What particle in an atom carries a negative charge? Answer: Electron
What everyday liquid has the chemical formula H2O? Answer: Water
What is the closest star to Earth? Answer: The Sun
What planet is closest to the Sun? Answer: Mercury
At what temperature in degrees Celsius does water boil at sea level? Answer: 100
What organ pumps blood around your body? Answer: Heart
What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system? Answer: The Milky Way
What gas makes up most of Earth's atmosphere? Answer: Nitrogen
What part of a plant takes in water from the soil? Answer: Roots
What is the process plants use to turn sunlight into food? Answer: Photosynthesis
What scientist developed the theory of general relativity? Answer: Albert Einstein
What scientist published the three laws of motion in 1687? Answer: Isaac Newton
What element has the atomic number 1? Answer: Hydrogen
What type of blood cell fights infection? Answer: White blood cells
What do the letters DNA stand for? Answer: Deoxyribonucleic acid
What instrument measures air pressure? Answer: Barometer
What tool do you use to measure temperature? Answer: Thermometer
What is molten rock called once it flows out of a volcano? Answer: Lava
What is molten rock called while it is still underground? Answer: Magma
What planet is famous for its bright, wide rings? Answer: Saturn
How many planets are in our solar system? Answer: Eight
What kind of animal was Dolly, the first mammal cloned from an adult cell? Answer: Sheep
What vitamin does your skin make in sunlight? Answer: Vitamin D
What number on the pH scale is neutral? Answer: 7
What color do you get when you mix blue and yellow paint? Answer: Green
What is the scientific study of plants called? Answer: Botany
What gas do people need to breathe in to stay alive? Answer: Oxygen
What kind of tissue connects muscle to bone? Answer: Tendon
What green pigment lets plants absorb sunlight? Answer: Chlorophyll
What is the colored part of the eye called? Answer: Iris
What blood type is known as the universal donor? Answer: O negative
What silvery metal, once common in thermometers, is liquid at room temperature? Answer: Mercury
How many chambers does the human heart have? Answer: Four
What simple machine is a seesaw an example of? Answer: Lever
What do you call a scientist who studies fossils? Answer: Paleontologist
In which direction does the Sun rise? Answer: East
What is it called when a gas cools and turns into a liquid? Answer: Condensation
What was reclassified from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006? Answer: Pluto
What organ makes insulin? Answer: Pancreas
What do you call a space rock that survives its fall and lands on Earth? Answer: Meteorite
What are the two poles of a magnet called? Answer: North and south
What do fish use to breathe underwater? Answer: Gills
In which part of the body is the stapes, the smallest bone? Answer: The ear
What is the chemical symbol for potassium? Answer: K
What is the capital of France? Answer: Paris
What is the capital of Japan? Answer: Tokyo
What is the capital of Australia? Answer: Canberra
What is the capital of Canada? Answer: Ottawa
What is the capital of Italy? Answer: Rome
What is the capital of Brazil? Answer: Brasilia
What is the capital of Turkey? Answer: Ankara
What is the capital of New Zealand? Answer: Wellington
What is the capital of Argentina? Answer: Buenos Aires
What is the capital of Kenya? Answer: Nairobi
What is the capital of Morocco? Answer: Rabat
What is the capital of Scotland? Answer: Edinburgh
What is the capital of the US state of California? Answer: Sacramento
What is the capital of the US state of Texas? Answer: Austin
What is the largest ocean on Earth? Answer: The Pacific
What is the tallest mountain on Earth above sea level? Answer: Mount Everest
What mountain range is Mount Everest part of? Answer: The Himalayas
On which continent is the Sahara Desert? Answer: Africa
What is the largest continent? Answer: Asia
What country is shaped like a boot? Answer: Italy
What river runs through London? Answer: The Thames
What river runs through Paris? Answer: The Seine
What river flows north through Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea? Answer: The Nile
Off the coast of which country is the Great Barrier Reef? Answer: Australia
In which country would you find Machu Picchu? Answer: Peru
In which country is the Taj Mahal? Answer: India
What US state is made up entirely of islands? Answer: Hawaii
What is the smallest country in the world? Answer: Vatican City
What is the longest river in South America? Answer: The Amazon
What imaginary line circles the Earth at 0 degrees latitude? Answer: The Equator
What line of 0 degrees longitude passes through Greenwich in London? Answer: The Prime Meridian (Greenwich Meridian)
What sea lies between southern Europe and North Africa? Answer: The Mediterranean
What country has a red maple leaf on its flag? Answer: Canada
What country's flag is a red circle on a white background? Answer: Japan
In which US state is the Grand Canyon? Answer: Arizona
How many states are in the United States? Answer: 50
On which continent is the South Pole? Answer: Antarctica
What ocean lies between North America and Europe? Answer: The Atlantic
What is the largest country in the world by area? Answer: Russia
What canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans? Answer: The Panama Canal
What canal connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea? Answer: The Suez Canal
In which country is the city of Timbuktu? Answer: Mali
What strait separates Spain from Morocco? Answer: The Strait of Gibraltar
What island country lies just off the southern tip of India? Answer: Sri Lanka
Which of the Great Lakes lies entirely inside the United States? Answer: Lake Michigan
In which country is Mount Kilimanjaro? Answer: Tanzania
What waterfall lies on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe? Answer: Victoria Falls
What famous waterfalls lie on the border between Canada and the United States? Answer: Niagara Falls
On which Hawaiian island is the city of Honolulu? Answer: Oahu
What salt lake between Israel and Jordan lets swimmers float with no effort? Answer: The Dead Sea
Who was the first President of the United States? Answer: George Washington
In what year did World War II end? Answer: 1945
What ocean liner sank on its first voyage in April 1912? Answer: The Titanic
In what year did the Berlin Wall come down? Answer: 1989
In what year did Columbus first sail to the Americas? Answer: 1492
Who was the first person to walk on the Moon? Answer: Neil Armstrong
What ancient people built the pyramids at Giza? Answer: The Egyptians
What Egyptian queen was linked with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony? Answer: Cleopatra
What volcano buried the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD? Answer: Mount Vesuvius
Who painted the Mona Lisa? Answer: Leonardo da Vinci
Who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Answer: Michelangelo
What charter of 1215 limited the power of England's King John? Answer: Magna Carta
In what year was the US Declaration of Independence adopted? Answer: 1776
Which US president issued the Emancipation Proclamation? Answer: Abraham Lincoln
Who became British prime minister in May 1940 and led the country through World War II? Answer: Winston Churchill
What language did the ancient Romans speak? Answer: Latin
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? Answer: Amelia Earhart
Who was granted the first US patent for the telephone in 1876? Answer: Alexander Graham Bell
What brothers flew their powered airplane at Kitty Hawk in 1903? Answer: The Wright brothers
What ship carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620? Answer: The Mayflower
What French emperor was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo? Answer: Napoleon
Who was the first emperor of Rome? Answer: Augustus (Octavian)
Who led India's nonviolent campaign for independence from Britain? Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Who was released from prison in 1990 and became president of South Africa in 1994? Answer: Nelson Mandela
What disease caused the Black Death? Answer: Plague (bubonic plague)
Which English king had six wives? Answer: Henry VIII
Who was queen of England when the Spanish Armada was defeated in 1588? Answer: Elizabeth I
What country gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States? Answer: France
What civilization built Machu Picchu? Answer: The Inca
Who gave the "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington in 1963? Answer: Martin Luther King Jr.
What was the name of the first artificial satellite, launched in 1957? Answer: Sputnik 1 (Sputnik)
What Macedonian king built an empire that reached India before he died at 32? Answer: Alexander the Great
What trade route linked China with the Mediterranean for centuries? Answer: The Silk Road
What revolution began in 1789 with the storming of the Bastille? Answer: The French Revolution
Who was the first person to travel into space? Answer: Yuri Gagarin
What picture writing did the ancient Egyptians use? Answer: Hieroglyphs (hieroglyphics)
What title did the kings of ancient Egypt hold? Answer: Pharaoh
What invention is Johannes Gutenberg famous for? Answer: The printing press
Who discovered penicillin in 1928? Answer: Alexander Fleming
What nurse of the Crimean War was known as the Lady with the Lamp? Answer: Florence Nightingale
What empire did Genghis Khan found? Answer: The Mongol Empire
What Portuguese explorer led the first voyage around the world but died before it ended? Answer: Ferdinand Magellan
What Roman wall across northern England is named after the emperor who ordered it? Answer: Hadrian's Wall
What city hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896? Answer: Athens
What disease was declared wiped out worldwide in 1980? Answer: Smallpox
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize? Answer: Marie Curie
What period of European history has a name that means "rebirth"? Answer: The Renaissance
In the Greek legend, what city fell to soldiers hidden inside a wooden horse? Answer: Troy
What is the name of the pirate flag with a skull and crossbones? Answer: The Jolly Roger
Which queen ruled Britain from 1837 to 1901? Answer: Victoria
What 1803 land deal with France roughly doubled the size of the United States? Answer: The Louisiana Purchase
What long wall was built across northern China to keep out invaders? Answer: The Great Wall
What fruit is the main ingredient in guacamole? Answer: Avocado
What is the main ingredient in hummus? Answer: Chickpeas (garbanzo beans)
What Italian dish is made of wide flat pasta sheets layered with sauce and cheese? Answer: Lasagna
What seaweed is used to wrap sushi rolls? Answer: Nori
What is tofu made from? Answer: Soybeans
What nut is ground up to make marzipan? Answer: Almonds
What spice comes from the dried threads of a crocus flower? Answer: Saffron
What fruit is dried to make raisins? Answer: Grapes
What country does kimchi come from? Answer: Korea
What pasta is shaped like a bow tie? Answer: Farfalle
What beans is chocolate made from? Answer: Cacao beans (cocoa beans)
What Italian phrase describes pasta cooked so it is still firm to the bite? Answer: Al dente
What vegetable are French fries made from? Answer: Potatoes
What green paste served with sushi is hot enough to sting your nose? Answer: Wasabi
What herb is the main ingredient in classic green pesto? Answer: Basil
What crescent-shaped French pastry is a breakfast favorite? Answer: Croissant
What vegetable is fermented to make sauerkraut? Answer: Cabbage
What is a dill pickle made from? Answer: Cucumber
What part of milk is churned to make butter? Answer: Cream
What living ingredient makes bread dough rise? Answer: Yeast
What tree's sap is boiled down to make pancake syrup? Answer: Maple
Cottage pie is made with beef. What meat goes into a shepherd's pie? Answer: Lamb (or mutton)
What country does feta cheese come from? Answer: Greece
What country do tacos come from? Answer: Mexico
What rich sauce of egg yolks, butter and lemon is poured over eggs Benedict? Answer: Hollandaise
What spice gives curry powder its yellow color? Answer: Turmeric
What is the main ingredient in ketchup? Answer: Tomatoes
What Italian dessert has a name that means "pick me up"? Answer: Tiramisu
What cold Spanish soup is made from raw tomatoes blended with cucumber and peppers? Answer: Gazpacho
What Greek dip is made from yogurt, cucumber and garlic? Answer: Tzatziki
What light pastry dough is used for eclairs and cream puffs? Answer: Choux pastry
What leafy green gives the cartoon sailor Popeye his strength? Answer: Spinach
What country does poutine come from? Answer: Canada
What are Polish filled dumplings called? Answer: Pierogi
What vegetable gives borscht its deep red color? Answer: Beets (beetroot)
What is the yellow part of an egg called? Answer: Yolk
What vegetable is known for making people cry when they chop it? Answer: Onion
What red spice is the key flavor in Hungarian goulash? Answer: Paprika
What three foods do the letters in a BLT sandwich stand for? Answer: Bacon, lettuce and tomato
What cooked paste of flour and fat is used to thicken sauces? Answer: Roux
What scale measures the heat of chili peppers? Answer: The Scoville scale
What is ghee? Answer: Clarified butter
What fish do the eggs in true caviar come from? Answer: Sturgeon
What sea animal is served as calamari? Answer: Squid
What English nobleman gave his title to food served between two slices of bread? Answer: The Earl of Sandwich
What is the tallest land animal? Answer: Giraffe
What is the largest animal alive today? Answer: Blue whale
What is the fastest land animal? Answer: Cheetah
What is a group of lions called? Answer: Pride
What is a baby kangaroo called? Answer: Joey
What is a female fox called? Answer: Vixen
What is a baby goat called? Answer: Kid
How many legs does an insect have? Answer: Six
What is the only mammal that can truly fly? Answer: Bat
What black and white bear eats mostly bamboo? Answer: Giant panda
What animal is known as the ship of the desert? Answer: Camel
What is the largest living bird? Answer: Ostrich
What tiny bird can hover in place and fly backward? Answer: Hummingbird
What is a baby swan called? Answer: Cygnet
What is a baby deer called? Answer: Fawn
What is a male duck called? Answer: Drake
What is a female sheep called? Answer: Ewe
The Komodo dragon is the largest living species of what kind of reptile? Answer: Lizard
What egg-laying mammal has a bill like a duck? Answer: Platypus
How many hearts does an octopus have? Answer: Three
What is the largest species of cat? Answer: Tiger
What word describes animals that are active at night? Answer: Nocturnal
What do you call mammals that carry their young in a pouch? Answer: Marsupials
What is the largest living land animal? Answer: African elephant (African bush elephant)
What is the traditional collective noun for a group of crows? Answer: Murder
What is a group of geese on the ground called? Answer: Gaggle
Is a dolphin a fish or a mammal? Answer: Mammal
What slow tree-dwelling mammal from Central and South America hangs upside down? Answer: Sloth
What lizard is famous for changing color? Answer: Chameleon
What is a baby horse called? Answer: Foal
What flightless bird is a national symbol of New Zealand? Answer: Kiwi
Which seahorse parent carries the eggs until they hatch? Answer: The male
What Australian marsupial, often wrongly called a bear, eats almost nothing but eucalyptus leaves? Answer: Koala
What is a group of whales called? Answer: Pod (also gam or school)
What does a caterpillar turn into inside a chrysalis? Answer: Butterfly
What do frogs start life as after they hatch? Answer: Tadpoles
What is the national bird of the United States? Answer: Bald eagle
What do you call an animal that eats both plants and meat? Answer: Omnivore
What is the largest fish in the sea? Answer: Whale shark
What animal builds dams across streams? Answer: Beaver
What protein is a rhino's horn made of? Answer: Keratin
The orca is the largest member of which animal family? Answer: Dolphins
What color is a polar bear's skin under its fur? Answer: Black
What are the branched bony growths on a male deer's head called? Answer: Antlers
How many humps does a dromedary camel have? Answer: One
What Arctic whale has a long spiral tusk? Answer: Narwhal
What is a male honeybee called? Answer: Drone
What is the popular collective noun for a group of owls? Answer: Parliament
What is a shark's skeleton made of? Answer: Cartilage
Lemurs are native to which island off the coast of Africa? Answer: Madagascar
How many players does a soccer team have on the field? Answer: 11
How many players does a basketball team have on the court? Answer: Five
What sport is played with a shuttlecock? Answer: Badminton
What word means a score of zero in tennis? Answer: Love
In bowling, what do you call knocking down all ten pins with your first ball? Answer: Strike
In golf, what is a score of one under par on a hole called? Answer: Birdie
In golf, what is a score of two under par on a hole called? Answer: Eagle
How many holes are in a full round of golf? Answer: 18
How many rings are on the Olympic flag? Answer: Five
In chess, which piece moves only diagonally? Answer: Bishop
In chess, which piece can jump over other pieces? Answer: Knight
How many squares are on a chessboard? Answer: 64
In baseball, how many strikes put the batter out? Answer: Three
How many points is a touchdown worth in American football? Answer: Six
In soccer, which player may handle the ball inside their own penalty area? Answer: Goalkeeper
What color card sends a soccer player off the field? Answer: Red
In which sport do athletes compete on the pommel horse? Answer: Gymnastics
In bowling, what are three strikes in a row called? Answer: Turkey
What is the hard rubber disk used in ice hockey called? Answer: Puck
Who invented basketball in 1891? Answer: James Naismith
What Japanese martial art has a name that means "gentle way"? Answer: Judo
In tennis, what is a score of 40-40 called? Answer: Deuce
What is the highest possible score in a game of ten-pin bowling? Answer: 300
What is the highest score you can get with a single dart? Answer: 60
In which sport do players sweep the ice in front of a sliding stone? Answer: Curling
How many players does an indoor volleyball team have on the court? Answer: Six
What three sports make up a triathlon? Answer: Swimming, cycling and running
What is passed from runner to runner in a relay race? Answer: Baton
What do you call it when one player scores three goals in a game? Answer: Hat trick
What sport is nicknamed "the sweet science"? Answer: Boxing
In checkers, what does a piece become when it reaches the far side of the board? Answer: King
What sport was first called "mintonette"? Answer: Volleyball
How many in a row do you need to win tic-tac-toe? Answer: Three
In poker, what is the name for ace, king, queen, jack and ten of the same suit? Answer: Royal flush
How many cards are in a standard deck, not counting jokers? Answer: 52
What do opposite sides of a standard die always add up to? Answer: Seven
In rock paper scissors, what beats rock? Answer: Paper
What winter sport combines cross-country skiing with rifle shooting? Answer: Biathlon
In tennis, what is a serve called when the receiver cannot get a racket on it? Answer: Ace
What do golfers shout to warn people about a stray ball? Answer: Fore
What modern team sport, played with a ball and netted sticks, was first played by Native American peoples? Answer: Lacrosse
In The Wizard of Oz, what is the name of Dorothy's dog? Answer: Toto
In The Wizard of Oz, what does the Scarecrow want from the Wizard? Answer: A brain
In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, what color are Dorothy's slippers? Answer: Red (ruby red)
In The Lion King, what is the name of Simba's father? Answer: Mufasa
In Finding Nemo, what kind of fish is Nemo? Answer: Clownfish
In Toy Story, what is the name of the cowboy doll? Answer: Woody
In the Star Wars films, who turns out to be Luke Skywalker's father? Answer: Darth Vader (Anakin Skywalker)
In Star Wars, what is the name of Han Solo's ship? Answer: The Millennium Falcon
In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, what is Elliott riding when he flies across the face of the moon? Answer: Bicycle
In Back to the Future, what speed in miles per hour must the car reach to travel through time? Answer: 88
In The Matrix, what color is the pill Neo takes? Answer: Red
In Forrest Gump, what does Forrest's mother say life is like? Answer: A box of chocolates
What is the name of the school for wizards in the Harry Potter films? Answer: Hogwarts
What is the name of Harry Potter's owl? Answer: Hedwig
In The Lord of the Rings, which hobbit volunteers to take the ring to Mordor? Answer: Frodo
In Frozen, what is the name of the talking snowman? Answer: Olaf
In Shrek, what kind of creature is Shrek? Answer: Ogre
In Peter Pan, what is the name of the fairy? Answer: Tinker Bell
What happens to Pinocchio's nose when he tells a lie? Answer: It grows
In Cinderella, what does the fairy godmother turn into a coach? Answer: Pumpkin
In Beauty and the Beast, what is the name of the heroine? Answer: Belle
In The Godfather, what is the family's last name? Answer: Corleone
In The Shining, what is the name of the hotel? Answer: The Overlook Hotel
In Mary Poppins, what does Mary hold above her head as she floats down from the sky? Answer: Umbrella
In The Sound of Music, what is the last name of the family with seven children? Answer: Von Trapp
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, what animals is Indiana Jones afraid of? Answer: Snakes
In the TV show Friends, what is the name of the coffee shop? Answer: Central Perk
In The Simpsons, what town does the family live in? Answer: Springfield
In SpongeBob SquarePants, what is the name of SpongeBob's starfish best friend? Answer: Patrick
On Sesame Street, which grumpy character lives in a trash can? Answer: Oscar the Grouch
In Star Trek, what planet is Mr. Spock from? Answer: Vulcan
In Doctor Who, what does the TARDIS look like from the outside? Answer: A police box
In The Princess Bride, how many fingers are on the right hand of the man Inigo Montoya is hunting? Answer: Six
In Groundhog Day, what date does the weatherman live over and over? Answer: February 2
In Up, what lifts Carl's house into the sky? Answer: Balloons
At the start of Monsters, Inc., what do the monsters collect from children to power their city? Answer: Screams
In 101 Dalmatians, who is the villain who wants the puppies' fur? Answer: Cruella de Vil
In The Jungle Book, what kind of animal is Baloo? Answer: Bear
In Alice in Wonderland, what animal does Alice follow down the hole? Answer: A white rabbit
In the 1933 film King Kong, what building does Kong climb at the end? Answer: The Empire State Building
In Citizen Kane, what object turns out to be "Rosebud"? Answer: A sled
In Pirates of the Caribbean, what is the name of Captain Jack Sparrow's ship? Answer: The Black Pearl
How many strings does a standard guitar have? Answer: Six
How many strings does a violin have? Answer: Four
How many keys does a standard piano have? Answer: 88
What family of instruments does the trumpet belong to? Answer: Brass
What family of instruments do drums belong to? Answer: Percussion
What Italian word tells a musician to play loudly? Answer: Forte
What musical term means gradually getting louder? Answer: Crescendo
Who composed The Four Seasons? Answer: Vivaldi
Who composed the opera The Magic Flute? Answer: Mozart
Who composed the ballet Swan Lake? Answer: Tchaikovsky
Which composer wrote his Ninth Symphony after he had gone almost completely deaf? Answer: Beethoven
Who composed the Brandenburg Concertos? Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Who composed "Ride of the Valkyries"? Answer: Richard Wagner
Who composed the oratorio Messiah, with its "Hallelujah" chorus? Answer: Handel
Who composed the opera Carmen? Answer: Georges Bizet
In what country was the composer Chopin born? Answer: Poland
What is the highest female singing voice? Answer: Soprano
In "do re mi", what note comes after mi? Answer: Fa
What is the person who directs an orchestra with a baton called? Answer: Conductor
What is the largest and lowest string instrument in an orchestra's string section? Answer: Double bass (contrabass)
What brass instrument changes notes with a long slide? Answer: Trombone
What instrument linked with Scotland is played by squeezing a bag of air? Answer: Bagpipes
What long wooden wind instrument comes from Aboriginal Australia? Answer: Didgeridoo
What small four-stringed instrument is linked with Hawaii? Answer: Ukulele
What term means singing with no instruments? Answer: A cappella
What musical term means playing notes short and detached? Answer: Staccato
What style of music was born in New Orleans around the start of the 20th century? Answer: Jazz
What is the national anthem of the United States called? Answer: The Star-Spangled Banner
In "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", what is the star like in the sky? Answer: A diamond
In "Old MacDonald Had a Farm", what five letters end the first line? Answer: E-I-E-I-O
In the children's song, what climbed up the water spout? Answer: The itsy bitsy spider (or incy wincy spider)
What symbol raises a note by a half step? Answer: Sharp
Who composed the piano piece "Clair de lune"? Answer: Claude Debussy
Who composed "Rhapsody in Blue"? Answer: George Gershwin
In Peter and the Wolf, what instrument plays the duck? Answer: Oboe
What family of instruments does the saxophone belong to? Answer: Woodwind
What is a solo song in an opera called? Answer: Aria
What ballroom dance in three-four time is linked with Vienna? Answer: Waltz
In "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", life is but a what? Answer: Dream
In the nursery song, what bridge is falling down? Answer: London Bridge
In "Yankee Doodle", what did he call the feather in his cap? Answer: Macaroni
What do you call a word that reads the same forward and backward? Answer: Palindrome
What do you call a word that means the opposite of another word? Answer: Antonym
What do you call words that sound the same but have different meanings, like "pair" and "pear"? Answer: Homophones
What is the plural of "mouse"? Answer: Mice
What is the plural of "ox"? Answer: Oxen
What letter is silent in the word "lamb"? Answer: B
What letter is silent in the word "island"? Answer: S
What do you call a word made from the first letters of other words, like NASA? Answer: Acronym
What kind of word names a person, place or thing? Answer: Noun
What kind of word describes an action? Answer: Verb
What language does the word "kindergarten" come from? Answer: German
What language does the word "algebra" come from? Answer: Arabic
What language does the word "robot" come from? Answer: Czech
What Japanese word means "empty orchestra"? Answer: Karaoke
What language do the letters RSVP come from? Answer: French
What is the fear of heights called? Answer: Acrophobia
What is the fear of spiders called? Answer: Arachnophobia
What is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any US state? Answer: Q
What do you call a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet? Answer: Pangram
What do you call a word made by rearranging the letters of another, like "listen" and "silent"? Answer: Anagram
What figure of speech compares two things using "like" or "as"? Answer: Simile
What do you call a word that sounds like the noise it names, like "buzz"? Answer: Onomatopoeia
What is it called when words in a row start with the same sound, as in "Peter Piper picked"? Answer: Alliteration
What Latin phrase is abbreviated with the letters E, T, C? Answer: Et cetera
What is the last letter of the Greek alphabet? Answer: Omega
How many times does the letter S appear in "Mississippi"? Answer: Four
What do you call a book that lists words with similar meanings? Answer: Thesaurus
What is the small dot over a lowercase i called? Answer: Tittle
What is the name of the symbol that stands for the word "and"? Answer: Ampersand
What does "carpe diem" mean? Answer: Seize the day
What is the study of where words come from called? Answer: Etymology
What word is a blend of "smoke" and "fog"? Answer: Smog
In the NATO phonetic alphabet, what word stands for the letter F? Answer: Foxtrot
How many items are in a baker's dozen? Answer: 13
How many is a "score", as in "four score and seven years ago"? Answer: 20
What number does the Roman numeral L stand for? Answer: 50
What is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order when spelled out in English? Answer: Forty
Which day of the week is named after the Norse god Thor? Answer: Thursday
What do the letters "a.m." stand for? Answer: Ante meridiem
What three-line Japanese poem has lines of five, seven and five syllables? Answer: Haiku
What five-line comic poem shares its name with a city in Ireland? Answer: Limerick
What word describes someone who can use both hands equally well? Answer: Ambidextrous
Which letter appears twice in the word "necessary": C or S? Answer: S

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