Question: For a point each, name as many of Joseph and Katherine Jackson's 11 children as you can.
Answer: Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, LaToya, Brandon, Marlon, Michael, Randy, Janet, Joh'Vonnie

Question: What famed Welsh pirate lends his name to a brand of rum?
Answer: Admiral Sir Henry Morgan

Question: Michael Jackson’s number one hit “Ben” was an ode to what type of animal?
Answer: Rat

Question: Seven years older, Mycroft is the more corpulent, more intelligent brother of whom?
Answer: Sherlock Holmes

Question: According to the fairy tale Goldilocks, whose bed was too hard?
Answer: Papa bear

Question: Before being supposedly discovered at the counter of Schwab's Drug store, Marilyn Monroe was known as who?
Answer: Norma Jean Baker

Question: What "melts in your mouth, not in your hands?"
Answer: M&Ms

Question: What does one have a pocketful of in the nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence”?
Answer: Rye

Question: Which author of books such as The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families, died on Monday due to complications from a bicycle accident?
Answer: Stephen R. Covey

Question: Signed on July 16, 1790, the Residence Act established what as the US Capitol?
Answer: Washington DC

Question: What is the more common name for a lexicon, of which Dr. Johnson's is an early example?
Answer: Dictionary

Question: Which Mesoamerican culture worshipped the feathered serpent known as Quetzalcoatl?
Answer: Aztecs

Question: Although it was headquartered at Oak Ridge, TN, and the University of Chicago, what was the name of the WWII project that created the atomic bomb?
Answer: The Manhattan project

Question: If you are eating salted, unfertilized sturgeon roe, what are you eating?
Answer: Caviar

Question: Obtained from the ore cinnabar, vermilion is a shade of what color?
Answer: Red

Question: What 1980s-era video game was set in a maze of mushrooms?
Answer: Centipede

Question: Whose Wild West show, which ran from 1883 until 1908, featured such performers as Annie Oakley, Sitting Bull, and Frank Butler, among many others?
Answer: Buffalo Bill

Question: The Oscar winning song "A Whole New World" accompanies Aladdin and Jasmine when they explore the world atop of what?
Answer: Magic Carpet

Question: First settled in 1565, what is the oldest, continually occupied European-established city in the continental US?
Answer: St. Augustine, FL

Question: Durum, Spelt, and Einkorn are all types of what?
Answer: Wheat

Question: What can be an adage, a tool, and a film franchise?
Answer: Saw

Question: For a point each, name the 2 countries that share a border with the Republic of Ecuador.
Answer: Colombia, Peru

Question: What is ursus arctos horribilis commonly known as?
Answer: Grizzly bear

Question: Gonzo journalism, a style in which reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figures of their stories, was created by whom?
Answer: Hunter S. Thompson

Question: Born Lee Jun-fan in San Francisco, what famed martial artist, who died on Jul 20, 1973, founded the martial art known as Jeet Kune Do?
Answer: Bruce Lee

Question: Doing something that must surely have earned him an asswhuppin, for what did Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk fame, trade the cow he was supposed to sell at the market?
Answer: Magic Beans

Question: What sport features a scrum, in which three rows of opposing players lock together and compete for a ball placed on the ground?
Answer: Rugby

Question: What word, which, when said loud enough, always makes you sound precocious, is defined as what you say when you don't know what to say?
Answer: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Question: Which part of the human body does impetigo affect?
Answer: The skin

Question: What famous outlaw committed the Wild West's first train robbery on July 21, 1873 in Adair, Iowa?
Answer: Jesse James

Question: What jazz legend was commonly known as Satchmo, short for satchelmouth, and has the New Orleans airport named for him?
Answer: Louis Armstrong

Question: According to Greek mythology, both blessed and cursed by the god Apollo, which daughter of King Priam was given the gift of prophecy with the rub that nobody would believe her?
Answer: Cassandra

Question: What can be a South American capital, a pepper, or a Porsche?
Answer: Cayenne

Question: July 18, 1925 saw the publication of the first volume of the book whose title translates as My Struggle or My Battle, written by what 20th century total asshat?
Answer: Adolf Hitler

Question: Produced by the The Herman Goelitz Candy Company, Jelly Bellys, a favorite of Ronald Reagan, are what type of candy?
Answer: Jelly Beans

Question: What was the number of the mobile hospital unit on TVs M*A*S*H?
Answer: 4077th

Question: On July 17, 1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan filed a flight plan that indicated he was flying from New York to Low Angeles. True to his name, where did he end up?
Answer: Ireland

Question: July 20, 1919, was the birth of what New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist, who made sherpa Tenzing Norgay an international celebrity?
Answer: Sir Edmund Hillary

Question: July 18, 1969 saw the death of campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne, when a car driven by what famed politician went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, MA, an accident from which he was the only survivor?
Answer: Ted Kennedy

Question: Named for the founder, what is the name given to the upscale luxury hotels and resorts operated by the Hilton hotel chain?
Answer: Conrad.

Question: “To infinity… and beyond!” is the catchphrase of what Toy Story character?
Answer: Buzz Lightyear.

Question: Today marks the 6th anniversary of the death of actor James Doohan. What was the name of his most famous role, engineer on the starship Enterprise?
Answer: Montgomery “Scotty” Scott.

Question: Edamame, often found in Japanese restaurants and Whole Foods, are a preparation of what vegetable?
Answer: Soybeans. (Alan Bean

Question: The Crocodile Hunter was a nickname given to what Australian naturalist, who was killed by a slightly irritated sting ray in 2006?
Answer: Steve Irwin.

Question: What amusement park, the second most visited park in the world in 2010, was first opened on July 17, 1955?
Answer: Disneyland

Question: For a point each, name the 8 countries surrounding Zambia
Answer: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola

Question: The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, who lured all but three of the children of Hamelin to their death, was originally hired by the townspeople to rid the town of what?
Answer: Rats

Question: July 19, 1860 saw the birth of what infamous New England spinster who, When she saw what she had done gave her father forty-one?
Answer: Lizzie Borden

Question: Named after its founder, Leon Leonwood, what Freeport, ME based retailer of clothing and outdoor gear is well known for their Hudson's Bay Point Blanket?
Answer: L.L. Bean

Question: The 18th of July, 1976 saw what Romanian athlete score the first ever perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics?
Answer: Nadia Comaneci

Question: In the Tour de France, the overall leader wears the yellow jersey, the king of the mountain wears the red and white polka dot. What color does the sprint leader wear?
Answer: Green

Question: Name the artist and the title of this 1990 hit that reached #8 on the Billboard top 100: ‘My-my-my-my music hits me so hard Makes me say, “oh my lord thank you for blessing me With a mind to rhyme and two hyped feet” It feels good When you know you’re down A superdope homeboy from the Oaktown’?
Answer: U Can't Touch This by MC Hammer

Question: What blues rocker is backed by The Destroyers?
Answer: George Thorogood

Question: On July 21, 1873, Jesse James and the James-Younger gang pulled off the first successful what of the American West, in Adair Iowa?
Answer: Train robbery