Question: What cocktail, named for a Scottish folk hero, consists of Scotch, Sweet vermouth, with a dash of Angostura bitters?
Answer: Rob Roy

Question: Public Law 62-5, which was passed on August 8, 1911 set the membership of the House of Representatives to what number?
Answer: 435

Question: In which U.S. state is Grand Teton National Park located?
Answer: Wyoming

Question: What is the name of the evil puppeteer in the 1940s Disney movie Pinocchio
Answer: Stromboli

Question: Of the three types of rock, lava is falls under which type?
Answer: Igneous

Question: What American actress became Princess of Monaco following her 1956 wedding to Prince Rainier?
Answer: Grace Kelly

Question: Currently on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space museum, what type of US bomber is the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb?
Answer: Boeing B-29

Question: What product is made at a gristmill?
Answer: Flour

Question: A follow up consequence of being banned from federal service for life, on August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 members of what federal group were fired for illegally calling for a strike?
Answer: Air Traffic Controllers

Question: What was the name of the NASA rover that touched down on the surface of Mars Sunday night?
Answer: Curiosity

Question: Which property management group, the largest real estate investment group in the US, owns and operates the Northgate Mall?
Answer: Simon Property Group

Question: What former basketball player and shoe salesman lends his signature to every pair of Converse All-Star sneakers?
Answer: Chuck Taylor

Question: And how much of your hard earned money is protected by the FDIC?
Answer: $250,000

Question: In geology, what is the process by which organic material is turned to stone by naturally impregnating it with silica or iron and sulfur?
Answer: Petrification

Question: August 9th is the anniversary of the resignation of one Richard Milhous Nixon from the office of the President of the United States of America. In what year did this happen?
Answer: 1974

Question: On August 9, 1944, The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring what iconic hat wearing, shovel carrying character for the first time?
Answer: Smokey the Bear

Question: For a point each, name the 2 countries that share a physical border with the Republic of El Salvador.
Answer: Guatemala and Honduras

Question: What can be a brand of shoe polish, a fruit, or a bird?
Answer: Kiwi

Question: Air Jordan, first introduced in 1985, are a brand of shoes made by what shoe company?
Answer: Nike

Question: Who was the mythical Greek king of Thebes who killed his father so he could marry his mother?
Answer: Oedipus

Question: What Latin phrase, which translates as "by the fact itself", is taken to mean that a certain phenomenon is a direct consequence, a resultant effect, of the action in question?
Answer: Ipso facto

Question: “From the Halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli; We fight our country’s battles” promises which branch of the US military?
Answer: Marines

Question: For point each, name the 4 largest English language book printers in the world.
Answer: Random House, Penguin, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins

Question: What serial killer, who buried the remains of 26 of his victims in his Chicago crawl space, was known as the "Killer Clown"?
Answer: John Wayne Gacy

Question: Bengal, Sumatran, and Siberian are all types of what?
Answer: Tigers

Question: Name the 1964 movie and character/actor that featured the quote “Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room.”
Answer: Peter Sellers as President Merkin Muffley in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Question: A staple of Swedish furniture stores, what hex shaped wrench is included in everything Ikea sells (including the meatballs!)?
Answer: Allen Wrench

Question: In the Peanuts comic strip, which of Snoopy's brothers wears a fedora and lives in the California desert?
Answer: Spike

Question: Construction began on 13 Aug 1961 on an 87 mile long barrier dividing what city?
Answer: Berlin

Question: On August 12, 1908, the first of over 15 million of what landmark automobile rolled off the assembly line?
Answer: Model T Ford

Question: Known as the Golden State, what was the 31st state to join the Union on Sept. 9, 1850?
Answer: California

Question: What is the DVD region code for the US?
Answer: 1

Question: You dial 911 for emergency services and 411 for information (now taken over by 555-1212). What is the FCC mandated call before you dig number?
Answer: 811

Question: Which of the seven is the smallest (in area) continent?
Answer: Australia

Question: Box-end, monkey, and crescent are all types of what?
Answer: Wrenches

Question: Steinway & Sons has been manufacturing what type of musical instrument for over 150 years?
Answer: Pianos

Question: What revolutionary war hero, leader of the Green Mountain Boys, lends his name to a furniture company?
Answer: Ethan Allen

Question: Who’s resignation speech included the lines “Sometimes I have succeeded and sometimes I have failed, but always I have taken heart from what Theodore Roosevelt once said about the man in the arena, “whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is not effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deed, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumphs of high achievements and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.””
Answer: Richard Nixon

Question: What is the name of the fault line that runs for about 800 miles in California?
Answer: San Andreas Fault

Question: The Great Sphinx of Giza, the largest monolith statue in the world, features a humans head on what kind of body?
Answer: Lioness

Question: August 11, 3114 BC is accepted as the starting date of what calendaring system, which many people use to predict the end of the world on Dec 20, 2012?
Answer: Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar, or Mayan Calendar

Question: The B-29 Bockscar dropped the second atomic bomb on what Japanese city on August 9, 1945?
Answer: Nagasaki

Question: In which sport did teams first compete for the America's Cup today in August, 1851?
Answer: Yachting

Question: August 12, 1925 saw the birth of twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, who together compiled was famous set of books, originally conceived to help settle a bar bet?
Answer: Guinness World Records

Question: Who spent the most time in the captains chair of the USS Enterprise?
Answer: Captain John-Luc Picard

Question: August 8, 1908 saw which Wright brother, the one who didn't get to pilot the flyer the previous December at Kitty Hawk, make his first public flight in Le Mans, France?
Answer: Wilbur

Question: What famed nurse, dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp", revolutionized nursing from the lessons she learned tending wounded soldiers during the Crimean War?
Answer: Florence Nightingale

Question: November 11, 1889 saw the great state of Washington formed from what territory?
Answer: Washington Territory

Question: What company exhorts “don’t leave home without it”?
Answer: American Express

Question: According to the nursery rhyme, who lost her sheep and couldn't find them?
Answer: Little Bo Peep

Question: Paraskevidekatriaphobia or friggatriskaidekaphobia is the fear of what?
Answer: Friday the 13th

Question: How many musicians make up a nonet?
Answer: 9

Question: What did multimillionaire Dennis Tito, born on August 8, 1940, pay a reported $20 million to do in 2001?
Answer: Be the first paying space tourist

Question: Which celebrity was killed when their vehicle was involved in a collision when a car driven by Donald Turnupseed turned in front of their vehicle, totaling their Porsche?
Answer: James Dean