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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who gave up Babe Ruth's 60th homer? | Tom Zachary |
| Who attempted to kill FDR in 1933? | Giuseppe Zangara |
| Larry King's last name | Zeiger |
| Mata Hari's real name | Margaretha Zelle |
| Setting of Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt | Zenith |
| Authors of Babar series | Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff |
| Where was the Liberty Bell stored during the American Revolution? | Zion High German Reformed Church |
| Who was the last King of Albania (1928-1939)? | King Zog I |
| Who was the Mass. cardiologist who invented the pacemaker in 1952? | Dr. Paul Zoll |
| What does the zip in zip code stand for? | Zone Improvement Plan |
| What is the Wizard's joke shop at Hogsmeade in Harry Potter? | Zonko's |
| What is the skullcap of Roman Catholic clergymen? | Zucchetto |
| Who wrote the Zuckerman trilogy? | Philip Roth |
| What is the instrumental theme of the Benny Hill Show? | Yakety Sax |
| Who was the architect who designed the Twin Towers, completed in 1973? | Minoru Yamasaki |
| What is Jon Lovitz' liar called? | Tommy Flanagan |
| What is the name of the sorcerer in the Sorcerer's Apprentice part of Fantasia? | Yen Sid |
| Who is the title character of Thomas Hardy's Return of the Native? | Clym Yeobright |
| What was the former name of Hokkaido? | Yezo |
| Who is called the "Yiddish Mark Twain"? | Shalom Aleichem |
| What is the name of the radio station in American Graffiti? | XERB |
| Who invented the crossword puzzle? | Arthur Wynne |
| What is the TV station in Fernwood 2-Night? | WZAZ |
| Who is the title character of The Thin Man? | Clyde Wynant |
| What is the business in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying? | World Wide Wicket Company |
| What is the family estate in Lady Chatterley's Lover? | Wragby Hall |
| Who was the G.E. engineer who accidentally invented Silly Putty? | James Wright |
| Who invented Lincoln Logs? | John Lloyd Wright |
| Who was the passenger in James Dean's car? | Rolf Wuetherich |
| Ilene Woods was the voice of what Disney character? | Cinderella |
| What is the bowling term for a 5-10 split? | Woolworth |
| What was the Allied code name for Iwo Jima during World War II? | Workman |
| What is the motto of the Bond family? | "The world is not enough." |
| Whose slogan is "The World On Time"? | Federal Express |
| Tune to which troops departed on October 19, 1781, after their surrender to George Washington at the Battle of Yorktown. | "The World Turned Upside Down." |
| Subtitle of the John Greenleaf Whittier poem "Snow-Bound" | A Winter's Idyll |
| Setting of the radio sitcom Fibber McGee and Molly | Wistful Vista |
| Nickname of notoriously frugal Hetty Green | "The Witch of Wall Street." |
| Composers of "Ruddigore" | Gilbert and Sullivan |
| "The Wizard of Westwood" | John Wooden |
| Call letters on Newsradio | WNYX |
| Alternate name for tungsten | Wolfram |
| In which story does Irene Adler appear? | "A Scandal in Bohemia" |
| English translation of "La Donna e Mobile" from Verdi's Rigoletto | Woman is fickle |
| Original name of Tupperware | Wonder Bowl |
| Author of poem "The Deacon's Masterpiece" | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| Author of poem "The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay" | Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| What did Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport create? | Teletubbies |
| Lynette Woodward was the first woman to play for this team | The Harlem Globetrotters |
| Jane Austen's Emma's last name | Woodhouse |
| Title character of Rosemary's Baby | Andrew John Woodhouse |
| Setting of the "Scream" series of films | Woodsboro, California |
| Collector of flags | Vexillophile |
| Ancient Roman name for the Milky Way | Via Lactea |
| Custer's horse at Little Bighorn | Vic |
| What the initials JVC stand for | Victor Company of Japan |
| First ship (Magellan's) to circumnavigate the Earth | The Victoria |
| What were the 2 ships of Magellan's that did not circumnavigate the Earth? | Concepcion and Trinidad |
| Who completed Magellan's voyage after he died? | Juan Sebastian del Cano |
| Tropy award to the winner of Duke vs. UNC in football, and UCLA vs. U.S.C. | Victory Bell |
| What does VHS stand for? | Video Home Sysem |
| Name of the crash test dummies in commercials? | Vince and Larry |
| Motto of the Minutemen soliders in the American Revolution | Vince aut morire (Conquer or die) |
| Nickname of World War II general Joseph Stillwell | Vinegar Joe |
| Atuhor of "King, Queen, Knave" | Vladimir Nabokov |
| Nephew of the Lone Ranger | Dan Reid |
| Author of "Pamela" | Samuel Richardson |
| Of the 7 cardinal virtues, the 4 Platonic ones: | Justice, Fortitude, Prudence, Temperance |
| Of the 7 cardinal virtues, the 3 Christian ones: | Faith, Hope, Charity |
| Vitamin A | Retinol |
| Vitamin B1 | Thiamin (beriberi) |
| Vitamin B2 | Riboflavin |
| Vitamin B3 | Niacin (pellagra) |
| Vitamin B6 | Pyridoxine |
| Vitamin B9 | Folic Acid |
| Vitamin B12 | Cobalamin |
| Vitamin D1 | Lumisterol and Calciferol (rickets) |
| Vitamin E | Tocopherol |
| Vitamin K | Phylloquinone |
| August 15, 1945, the day on which Japan accepted Allied surrender terms, ending WW2 | V-J Day |
| Secret Service code name for LBJ | Volunteer |
| Vondervotteimittiss (wonder what time it is) is the main setting for which Poe short story | "The Peril in the Belfry" |
| Slogan of the Republican party in the 1860 campaign | "Vote yourself a farm." |
| Year of the Homestead Act | 1862 |
| These two flew the first nonstop around-the-world flight without refueling, in their plane "Voyager" | Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager |
| Who fled to England in 1780 on the Vulture | Benedict Arnold |
| Ohio senator who would have become President of the U.S. if Andrew Johnson had been impeached in 1868. | Benjamin Franklin Wade |
| Employer of Willy Loman | The Wagner Company |
| Pearl B. Wait invented what? | Jell-o |
| Ruth Wakefield invented what? | Chocolate chip cookies |
| What did Frederick Walton invent? | Linoleum |
| Who was "The Waltz King"? | Johann Strauss Jr. |
| Weekly newspaper of the Salvation Army | The War Cry |
| What did Ezra J. Warner invent? | The can-opener |
| South African grocery who recevied the first human heart transplant | Louis Washkansky |
| Man who performed the world's first human heart transplant | Dr. Christiaan Barnard |
| What are the 5 sections of "The Waste Land"? | The Burial Of the Dead, A Game of Chess, The Fire Sermon, Death By Water, What the Thunder Said |
| What does WD stand for in WD-40? | Water Displacement |
| What does the word "Gobi" mean in Mongolian? | "waterless place." |
| Who played the Fugitive in the TV series? | David Janssen |
| Main character in Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust | Homer Simpson |
| Author of the novel "The Graduate" | Charles Webb |
| Slogan of General Electric | "We bring good things to life." |
| Slogan of Pontiac | "We build excitement." |
| Slogan of the United States Postal Service | "We deliver for you." |
| Slogan of the National Recovery Administration | "We Do Our Part." |
| Hometown of Matthew Harrison Brady in the Lawrence and Lee play "Inherit the Wind." | Weeping Water, Nebraska |
| Physician who assassinated Louisiana Senator Huey Long | Carl Austin Weiss, Jr. |
| Physician and dentist who became the first to successfully pasteurize Concord grape juice. | Dr. Thomas Welch |
| What show is "Well I'll be a blue-nosed gopher!" from? | The Mickey Mouse Club |
| Motel 6 slogan | "We'll leave the light on for you." |
| Tune that plays over the end of Dr. Strangelove, performed by Vera Lynn | "We'll Meet Again" |
| What was the london home of John Keats? | Wentworth Place |
| What is the scale used in geology to measure the size of loose rocks? | Wentworth Scale |
| What is the Wentworth scale, from smallest to biggest? | Clay, Silt, Sand, Granule, Pebble, Cobble, Boulder |
| What novel has Disko Troop? | Captains Courageous |
| English county that is the setting of Thomas Hardy novels | Wessex |
| The Western Biological Laboratory is owned by Doc in Salinas, California in what book? | Cannery Row |
| What was the home of President Grover Cleveland in Princeton, New Jersey? | Westland |
| At what school in Fulton, Missouri, did Winston Churchill give his "Iron Curtain" speech on March 5, 1946? | Westminster College |
| What did Stanley Weston create in 1965? | G.I. Joe |
| Advertising slogan of Avis Rent-a-Car | "We Try Harder" |
| Advertising slogan of Paul Masson wines | "We will sell no wine before its time." |
| Who wrote "What might contests rise from trivial things" | Alexander Pope |
| Autobiography of Michael Caine | "What's it all about?" |
| Alternate title of "Twelfh Night" | What You Will |
| Estate of President James Buchanan | Wheatland |
| What did Schuyler Wheeler invent in 1882? | The electric fan |
| Advertising slogan of Morton Salt | "When it rains, it pours." |
| Theme song of Louis Armstrong | "When It's Sleepy Time Down South" |
| Theme song of Kate Smith | "When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain." |
| Theme song of Bing Crosby | "When the Blue of the night Meets the Gold of the Day" |
| "Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and al lthe children above-average." | Lake Wobegon, on "A Prairie Home Companion" |
| "Where research is the key to tomorrow" | Slogan of 3M |
| "Where's The Rest of Me?" | Ronald Reagan autobiography |
| Slogan used to promote American Graffitti | Where were you in '62 |
| Actor who portrayeed Maytag man before Gordon Jump | Jesse White |
| Where is the gown worn at Ascot in My Fair Lady worn? | Whiteley's |
| What does Mauna Kea mean? | "White mountain" |
| His horse was named White Surrey | King Richard III |
| Who was nicknamed "The Wicked Wasp of Twickenham"? | Alexander Pope |
| He's a British veterinary surgeon and writer. He is best known for his semi-autobiographical stories, often referred to collectively as All Creatures Great and Small. | James Herriot |
| Who lived at Wildbank? | John Philip Sousa |
| William "Wild Bill" Donovan was director of this WW2 intelligence agency that was the fore-runner of the CIA | Office of Strategic Services (OSS) |
| Man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem | Andrew Wiles |
| Mnemonic for first eight U.S. presidents | Will A Jolly Man Make A Jolly Visitor? |
| Archibald Willard painted this for Philadelphia's Centennial Exposition of 1876? | Yankee Doodle (aka The Spirit of '76) |
| Real name of boxer Jack Dempsey | William Harrison |
| Author of short story "Rainy Season" | Stephen King |
| Security guiard who discovered the break-in at the Watergate Hotel | Frank Wills |
| What did Charles Kemmons Wilson found? | The Holiday Inn motel chain |
| In what novel by Sinclair Lewis does Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip become President? | "It Can't Happen Here" |
| Advertising slogan of Eastern Airlines | "The Wings of Man" |
| Who made the first solo flight around the world in the "Winnie Mae"? | Wiley Post |
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