Question: What is the common English translation of Descartes' famous statement "Cogito Ergo Sum"?
Answer: I think, therefore I am

Question: Which chemical element is prominently used in laptop batteries and antidepressant medication?
Answer: Lithium

Question: Which Protestant denomination has the most members in the U.S.?
Answer: Southern Baptist

Question: Who popularized the "moonwalk" dance?
Answer: Michael Jackson

Question: During which holiday do Jews refrain from eating leavened bread?
Answer: Passover

Question: Who was Cher's first husband?
Answer: Sonny Bono

Question: What are Charizard, Slowpoke, and Mewtwo?
Answer: Pokémon

Question: Semaphore is a method of communication that uses what?
Answer: Flags

Question: Who had "a corn cob pipe and a button nose, and two eyes made of coal"?
Answer: Frosty the Snowman

Question: What is the word for the stuff that a cow regurgitates to chew a second time?
Answer: Cud

Question: What diseased killed 775 people in 2002-2003, mostly in Hong Kong and southern China?
Answer: Sars

Question: Whose genome was sequenced in 2010, in an effort to understand how he has survived decades of drug abuse?
Answer: Ozzy Osbourne

Question: Who wrote "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"?
Answer: Victor Hugo

Question: What type of bird is it bad luck for sailors to kill, according to "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"?
Answer: Albatross

Question: Cabo San Lucas can be found on the southern tip of what peninsula?
Answer: Baja California

Question: What controversial biofuel constitutes 8% of the U.S. gasoline supply (as of 2009)?
Answer: Ethanol

Question: What code is named after the inventor of the telegraph?
Answer: Morse Code

Question: What drink, similar to Kool-Aid, was consumed by NASA astronauts?
Answer: Tang

Question: What iconic Paris cathedral was completed in 1345?
Answer: Notre Dame de Paris

Question: What novel, by Helen Fielding, is a modern-day retelling of "Pride and Prejudice"?
Answer: Bridget Jones's Diary

Question: What did Pablo Escobar get rich from selling?
Answer: Cocaine

Question: What is the term for a word, such as frenemy, that is created by merging two other words?
Answer: Portmanteau

Question: What is Ted Kaczynski better known as?
Answer: The Unabomber

Question: What hairstyle has been described as "business in front, party in back"?
Answer: Mullet

Question: Which "Sesame Street" character is an addict?
Answer: The Cookie Monster

Question: What atmospheric layer is damaged by chlorofluorocarbons?
Answer: Ozone Layer

Question: What is the common English word for a "synchronous diaphragmatic flutter"?
Answer: Hiccup

Question: What company is synonmous with ice resurfacing machines?
Answer: Zamboni

Question: Which country's currency was worth less than 1 trillionth of a U.S. cent when it was abandoned in 2009?
Answer: Zimbabwe

Question: What movie featured amplifiers that could be turned up to 11?
Answer: This is Spinal Tap

Question: What three letters can be found on a large percentages of the world's zippers?
Answer: Ykk

Question: Which U.S. state is, technically speaking, the farthest east?
Answer: Alaska

Question: What is the largest city that is located on two different continents?
Answer: Istanbul

Question: Who is credited with writing most of the Bible book of Psalms?
Answer: King David

Question: In what country is it common for "salarymen" to stay at "capsule hotels"?
Answer: Japan

Question: What figurative "war" has the U.S. been fighting since 1971?
Answer: The War on Drugs

Question: Who originally recorded the song "Respect"?
Answer: Otis Redding

Question: What historical character is often thought to have been short - despite being taller than average for his era?
Answer: Napoleon

Question: The musical "West Side Story" was a modern retelling of what classic play?
Answer: Romeo and Juliet

Question: What is the biggest city where the Wu dialect is spoken?
Answer: Shanghai

Question: What type of gasoline, blamed for lowering IQs, was banned in the U.S. in 1996?
Answer: Leaded

Question: What famous author wrote many plays but just one novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"?
Answer: Oscar Wilde

Question: The V2 and Saturn V were types of what?
Answer: Rockets

Question: What brand of chocolates includes an "affirmation" on the inside of the wrapper?
Answer: Dove

Question: What best-selling book was orginally a work of "Twilight" fan fiction?
Answer: Fifty Shades of Grey

Question: Who was on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in both 2012 and 2013?
Answer: Kate Upton

Question: What Basque sport is sometimes called "the fastest sport in the world" because its ball can reach a speed of 300 km/h?
Answer: Jai alai

Question: What did Jack trade for magic beans?
Answer: Cow

Question: What was the profession of Jesus's father Joseph?
Answer: Carpenter

Question: What legendary character turned everything he touched to gold?
Answer: Midas

Question: What is the most common first name for U.S. males born between 1933 and 2012?
Answer: Michael

Question: What city has Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Armenian Quarters?
Answer: Jerusalem

Question: What is the best-selling soda in the U.S. that is not made by Pepsi or Coke?
Answer: Dr Pepper

Question: Citrine and amethyst are forms of what mineral?
Answer: Quartz

Question: If a person is "juicing" what drug are they taking?
Answer: Anabolic Steroids

Question: If Paul McCartney is "Ivory", who is "Ebony" in the 1982 chart-topping song?
Answer: Stevie Wonder

Question: Whose wives included Aisha, Safiyya, and Sawda?
Answer: Mohammed

Question: According to singer Edwin Starr, what is war good for?
Answer: Absolutely Nothing

Question: What did the U.S. buy from Russia for 2 cents an acre?
Answer: Alaska

Question: In what country did Sandinistas battle Contras in the 1980's?
Answer: Nicaragua

Question: What city was once called "The Paris of the Middle East" before a civil war began in 1975?
Answer: Beirut

Question: What city is also called "Nola" and "The Big Easy"?
Answer: New Orleans

Question: What sport's highest rank is Yokozuna?
Answer: Sumo

Question: What animal's scientific name is Ursus Maritimus?
Answer: Polar Bear

Question: What biblical king had 700 wives and 300 concubines?
Answer: King Solomon

Question: What is the name of both an African-American magazine and a type of wood?
Answer: Ebony

Question: What is the most common first name for U.S. females born between 1933 and 2012?
Answer: Mary

Question: In what country would you find Mt. Pinatubo, whose 1991 eruption was the largest in the last hundred years?
Answer: Philippines

Question: Who wrote the musical "Cats"?
Answer: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Question: What company is famous for producing "elevator music"?
Answer: Muzak

Question: What celestial object was mathematically predicted before being observed in 1846?
Answer: Neptune

Question: What rapper's song, "Lollipop", is the best selling ringtone of all time?
Answer: Lil Wayne

Question: What party game, released by Milton Bradley in 1966, was called "sex in a box"?
Answer: Twister

Question: What oft-ridiculed 1930's movie tells the story of people who become criminally insane after smoking marijuana?
Answer: Reefer Madness

Question: What type of cloud becomes a tornado if it touches the ground?
Answer: Funnel Cloud

Question: Complete the analogy: Superman is to Daily Planet as Spider-Man is to ....
Answer: Daily Bugle

Question: What TV host has popularized the pseudoscience of Deepak Chopra and Dr. Oz?
Answer: Oprah Winfrey

Question: What chemical element makes the surface of Mars appear red?
Answer: Iron

Question: Whose embalmed body has been viewed millions of times since his death in 1924?
Answer: V.I. Lenin

Question: Who broke baseball's "color barrier" in 1947?
Answer: Jackie Robinson

Question: What city's "Hanging Gardens" were a Wonder of the World? (although they may have never existed)
Answer: Babylon