Question: Leapin' lizards! Which comic strip, created by Harold Gray in 1924, is ending its 85 year run next month, which means dog Sandy is going to have to find another little red haired girl to hang around with?
Answer: Little Orphan Annie

Question: What ancient Egyptian artifact, discovered by the French in 1799, was instrumental in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics, before eventually giving its name to a brand of computer language training software?
Answer: Rosetta Stone

Question: The Ryder cup is presented as trophy in what sport?
Answer: Golf

Question: At what Montana battle did Lt. Col George Custer famously loose his life?
Answer: Battle of the Little Big Horn

Question: Of the 4 states making up the Pacific Northwest, which one leads with an unemployment rate of 12%?
Answer: Oregon

Question: The ancient Aztecs called it the testicle tree. What do we know it as?
Answer: The Avacado

Question: In Geology, what is longer? An era? Or an epoch?
Answer: An era. It's several hundred million years while an epoch is tens of millions of years

Question: The act, often illegal, of parachuting from manmade or natural structures is known as what?
Answer: BASE jumping

Question: Because the sheep is in the meadow and the cow is in the corn, what, according to the nursery rhyme, is Little Boy Blue asked to do?
Answer: Come blow his horn

Question: Name the book and the author: 'Behavioral Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building in Quantico, half-buried in the earth'
Answer: The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris

Question: Name the year: Paula Jones makes some unpleasant accusations against Bill Clinton; Monica Lewinsky affair broke; anti trust case is launched against Microsoft; Google is founded;
Answer: 1998

Question: Oil is traditionally sold in barrels. How many gallons in a barrel of oil?
Answer: 42

Question: May 22, 1826 saw Charles Darwin leaving on his first voyage. Aboard what ship was he sailing?
Answer: HMS Beagle

Question: Thomas Lipton was the first to commercially offer tea in what?
Answer: Bag

Question: The Beaufort scale is used to measure the speed of what?
Answer: Wind

Question: What is the name of the field on which a rousing game of Cricket is played?
Answer: Pitch

Question: Hailing from the Isle of Man, what differentiates Manx cats from all others?
Answer: Tail

Question: What is the last name of the performer mauled by Montacore, one of his very special white tigers, in Las Vegas on October 3, 2003?
Answer: Horn

Question: Which of the Nobel prizes is awarded in Norway, not Sweden?
Answer: Peace

Question: What is the theme to all of these answers?
Answer: Pipe. The word pipe can precede or follow any of the words in the answer.

Question: Which companies advertises it "gets the red out"?
Answer: Visine

Question: What bones meet at the shoulder?
Answer: Scapula (shoulder blade), clavicle, and humerus

Question: Name the races that make up horse racings triple crown
Answer: Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes

Question: What can be a tool, an abstract geometric surface, and a means of transportation?
Answer: Plane

Question: Now a term describing those opposed to industrialization, computerization, or new technologies in general, what was the name for 19th century workers who protested the industrial revolution, often by destroying mechanized equipment?
Answer: Luddites

Question: Hatha, Bikram, and Integral are all types of what?
Answer: Yoga

Question: According to legend, King Arthur's queen consort, Guinevere, had a torrid affair with which Knight of the Round Table?
Answer: Lancelot

Question: May 26, 1940 saw Britain embark on Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of British forces from what famed northern French port city in the face of superior German forces?
Answer: Dunkirk

Question: "What hath God wrought" was sent from Washington D.C. to Baltimore, MD on May 24, 1844, the first message sent by what new technology?
Answer: The electrical telegraph

Question: Who took off from Roosevelt Field at 7:52 AM on May 20, 1927, in an attempt to pilot his Ryan NYP on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: Charles Lindbergh

Question: Since replaced by Emerald Downs, Longacres is a defunct venue where locals could enjoy what sport, known as The Sport of Kings?
Answer: Horse racing

Question: May 22, 1980 saw the introduction of what hugely successful video game in which the main character's shape was modeled either after the Japanese character for mouth, or a pizza with a slice missing?
Answer: Pac-Mac

Question: May 20, 1916 saw which famed American artist have his first of 322 Saturday Evening Post covers when Boy With a Baby Carriage graced the front of the publication?
Answer: Norman Rockwell

Question: What does the body secrete from the lacrimal glands?
Answer: Tears

Question: Which Latin phrase translates into English as 'great work', refers to the largest, greatest, or most famous work of an artist, writer, or composer?
Answer: Magnum Opus

Question: Notorious bank robbing duo Bonnie and Clyde were eventually ambushed by law enforcement agents in what U.S. state?
Answer: Louisiana

Question: Are you in good hands?
Answer: Allstate

Question: When the cow jumped over the moon, what did the spoon do?
Answer: Ran away with the dish

Question: Who did Snoopy take to the skies in his Sopwith Camel doghouse/biplane to do battle with in the comic strip Peanuts?
Answer: The Red Baron

Question: In the travel business, the "rack rate" refers to the published price for what commodity?
Answer: Hotel room

Question: Name the 1966 movie from its' IMDB summary: "A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery."
Answer: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Question: The religion of vodou (or voodoo) originated in what country?
Answer: Haiti

Question: In standard poker, what name is given to a hand consisting of 3 matching cards of one rank and two matching cards of another rank?
Answer: Full House

Question: What radio station do you find at 1250 on your local AM dial?
Answer: Kkdz

Question: What English novelist, a purveyor of romantic fiction, is responsible for such works as Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Emma, among others?
Answer: Jane Austen

Question: In Morse code, what international distress signal replaced the original CQD in 1908?
Answer: Sos

Question: Including radio, TV, newspaper, books, and even a pinball game, who created the Believe It or Not! series which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that the audience my question the claims?
Answer: Robert Ripley

Question: May 25, 1803 saw the birth, in Boston, MA, of what lecturer, essayist, and poet, who, along with Henry David Thoreau, was a founding force behind Transcendentalism?
Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question: During this week in 1940, the evacuation of 340,000 allied troops, known as Operation Dynamo, was accomplished from what French port city?
Answer: Dunkirk

Question: What fashion did Union General Ambrose Burnside start during the Civil War?
Answer: Sideburns

Question: What nation was eventually held liable for the bombing of the Navy destroyer U.S.S. Cole in 2000?
Answer: Sudan

Question: Which holiday, which had its first official recognition in 1868, was originally called Decoration Day?
Answer: Memorial Day

Question: What is the name of the crew member who steers the boat in competitive rowing?
Answer: Coxswain

Question: For a point each, name the countries surrounding the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Answer: Benin, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger

Question: May 25th is the anniversary of the release of the epic space opera, Star Wars. In what year was it released?
Answer: 1977

Question: What can be a canning company, a type of lightning, or a social gathering?
Answer: Ball