Question: The 1963 movie/musical ‘It Happened at the World’s Fair’, shot exclusively in Seattle, stars whom as Mike Edwards, a cropduster pilot down on his luck?
Answer: Elvis Presley

Question: What name is given to the person authorized to vote on behalf of someone else?
Answer: Proxy

Question: What is the name for the active meteor shower that takes place each year between late July and late August?
Answer: Perseid

Question: What American folk hero was “Born on a mountain top in Tennessee, Greenest state in the land of the free. Raised in the woods so’s he knew every tree, Killed him a bear when he was only three.”
Answer: Davy Crockett

Question: In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin, what did the title creature promise to do for the miller's daughter, in exchange for her first born?
Answer: Spin straw into gold

Question: A butte is a type of what geologic feature?
Answer: Hill

Question: Born in Weehawken, N.J. on August 19, 1947, who is the current music director of the Seattle Symphony?
Answer: Gerard Schwarz

Question: Who is the only American Idol judge that has been with the series since its 2002 inception?
Answer: Randy Jackson

Question: What type of fence, often painted white, is characterized as short with a tapered or pointed top on evenly spaced vertical boards?
Answer: Picket

Question: August 21, 1959 saw which state join the Union as the 50th?
Answer: Hawaii

Question: Held at Max Yasgur’s 600 acre diary farm, what event, which opened on Aug 15, 1969, was billed as “An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music”?
Answer: Woodstock

Question: August 21, 1911, saw the theft of the painting known as La Gioconda from the Louvre. By what name is the painting more commonly known?
Answer: Mona Lisa

Question: Name the book and the author: 'It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.'
Answer: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Question: Which insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term "computer bug"?
Answer: Moth

Question: What “church” has made millions selling its members “electro psychometer” like detectors?
Answer: Scientologists

Question: Talc is the softest mineral listed on the Mohs scale of hardness. It is given a value of 1. Diamond is the hardest. What number is it given?
Answer: 10

Question: Shamu, caught in 1965, was what type of animal?
Answer: Orca

Question: August 21st was the anniversary of Hawaii joining the union, the last state to do so, in what year?
Answer: 1959

Question: On August 21, 1911, Italian patriot Vincenzo Peruggia stolen what "moderately famous" painting from the Louvre, which was not recovered for 2 years?
Answer: Mona Lisa

Question: True or False: A duck’s quack doesn’t echo?
Answer: False

Question: What can be a defunct Ford model, an NBA player, and a TV western?
Answer: Maverick

Question: August 29, 1958 saw the birth of what "moderately famous" pop star, who married Lisa Marie Presley in 1994, Deborah Jeanne Rowe in 1996, and had a child with a yet unnamed surrogate mother in 2002?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: What cookies are shaped like flattened peanuts?
Answer: Nutter Butter

Question: Once known as book rate, what USPS service is reserved for printed materials, cds, and video tapes?
Answer: Media Mail

Question: The longest floating bridge in the world, the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge is officially named after what former Washington governor?
Answer: Albert D. Rosellini

Question: September 1, 1939 saw the start of World War II when Germany invaded what country?
Answer: Poland

Question: What's missing: Denial, Anger, Depression, Acceptance
Answer: Bargaining

Question: On Sept 2, 1945, the Instrument of Surrender was signed by the Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu, officially ending World War II, aboard what US battleship moored in Tokyo Bay?
Answer: USS Missouri

Question: Tuesday saw the 70th anniversary of the start of WWII when Germany invaded what country?
Answer: Poland

Question: Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Answer: Spongebob Squarepants

Question: The 21st amendment to the US constitution, a happy occasion if ever there was one, officially repeals what previous constitutional amendment?
Answer: The 18th

Question: How many horizontal lines are used in a musical stave (or staff)?
Answer: 5

Question: Known as an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance, the Burning Man festival was held this year in the Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area in what US state?
Answer: Nevada

Question: Love him or not, Paul Ryan has been officially nominated as the Republican Vice Presidential candidate. What state is he a Representative for?
Answer: Wisconsin

Question: What “magician”, born Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos, is the “genius” behind the Mindfreak tv show and the Believe Las Vegas show?
Answer: Criss Angel

Question: What fictional detective is featured in the novel/movie "The Hound of the Baskervilles"?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: From what animal does the delicious meat mutton come from?
Answer: Sheep

Question: Sept 8, 1979 saw the birth of what pop singer, who took her name from the character played by Steve Buscemi from Quentin Tarantinos masterpiece Reservoir Dogs?
Answer: Alecia Moore, more commonly known as Pink

Question: Have raised over $1.46 billion to date, Jerry Lewis' annual Labor Day telethon raises money for what group?
Answer: Muscular Dystrophy Association

Question: What entertainment mega-corp recently announced they were acquiring Marvel Entertainment, home of Spiderman and the Incredible Hulk, among others, to the tune of $4 billion?
Answer: The Walt Disney Company

Question: Together owning more than 80% of the market, which two US comic book companies are the most successful printers of comics?
Answer: DC Comics and Marvel

Question: “When You Wish Upon a Star” was recorded for what classic Disney film?
Answer: Pinocchio

Question: In the world of pari-mutuel betting, what is it called when the bettor must pick the 3 horses that finish first, second, and third in the exact order?
Answer: Trifecta

Question: What Latin phrase, which translates as "unknown land", is used in cartography to denote regions that have not been mapped or documented?
Answer: Terra Incognita

Question: What singer, born Richard Hall on Sept 11, 1965, took his stage name for supposedly having Herman Melville as his great-great-great-granduncle?
Answer: Moby

Question: According to the western calendar, what is the birthstone for those born in the month of September?
Answer: Sapphire

Question: Sept 17, 1976 saw the unveiling of which NASA space shuttle, which while it was not destined to boldly go where no man had gone before, was a valuable test bed?
Answer: Enterprise

Question: Originally a separate town before being annexed by Seattle in 1891, what neighborhood refers to itself as "The Center of the Universe"?
Answer: Fremont

Question: Which English children's author, who would have celebrated his 94th birthday on Monday, wrote such classics as The BFG, The Twits, James and the Giant Peach, and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, among dozens of others?
Answer: Roald Dahl

Question: On Sept 17, 1916, WWI's highest scoring German ace, Manfred von Richthofen, scored his first aerial kill. By what name is he better known?
Answer: Red Baron

Question: Name the book and the author of this 1895 classic: 'The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting'
Answer: The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Question: The act of prestidigitation is also known as what?
Answer: Sleight of hand

Question: Covering about 46% of the earth's surface, what is the largest of the oceans?
Answer: Pacific