Question: According to circus owner P. T. Barnum, whose first show began touring 176 years ago today, there's a what born every minute?
Answer: A sucker

Question: In addition to stinging like a bee, Muhammed Ali described his fighting style as floating like a what?
Answer: butterfly

Question: Coined during Winston Churchill's Sinews of Peace speech, what was the name given to the boundary between the Warsaw Pact and NATO during the cold war?
Answer: Iron Curtain

Question: June 5, 1968 saw which US presidential candidate shot at the Ambassador Hotel (since razed), by radical Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan?
Answer: Robert F. Kennedy

Question: In honor of the 30th anniversary of it's creation, Google changed their logo last week to a playable version of what classic game?
Answer: Pac-Man

Question: What federal holiday, first enacted to honor the Union soldiers of the Civil War, was formerly called Decoration Day?
Answer: Memorial Day

Question: For a point each, name the 5 states surrounding New York
Answer: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont

Question: What name is given to the process where machines are used to artificially simulate the function of the kidneys?
Answer: Dialysis

Question: What is the name given to the mattress/box springs that measure 60 in x 80 in (1.52 m 2.03 m) (in North America)
Answer: Queen

Question: Hosni Mubarak, who spent 20 years as the leader of what country, received a life sentence last week on charges of killing protesters during last year's revolution?
Answer: Egypt

Question: What early Seattle grunge band, which shared a name with a CCR song, had former members who formed the nucleus of bands you might have heard of: Pearl Jam and Mudhoney?
Answer: Green River

Question: What name is given to the dessert consisting of ice cream on sponge cake covered with meringue and browned quickly in a hot oven?
Answer: Baked Alaska

Question: Which famed Viennese composer, who died on June 3, 1899, was known as the Waltz King?
Answer: Johann Strauss II

Question: What famed lighter company, which was founded in 1932, celebrated the making of its' 500,000,000 lighter on the 117th anniversary of the founders birth, which was Tuesday?
Answer: Zippo

Question: In an apiary or hive, feeding a bee larvae royal jelly will result in it developing into what?
Answer: Queen Bee

Question: DC Comics recently announced that what long running comic character, introduced in 1940, is gay?
Answer: The Green Lantern

Question: July 4, 1919 saw Congress pass the 19th amendment (although it wasn't officially ratified until Aug 20, 1920), which gave the vote to which previously disenfranchised group?
Answer: Women

Question: Name the 1994 movie, #102 on IMDB's list of top 250 movies, based on its' plot summary: Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King.
Answer: The Lion King

Question: The youngest ever Chief Scout, what “Better drink my own piss” adventurer hosts Discovery Channel’s Man vs. Wild?
Answer: (Edward Michael) Bear Grylls

Question: What can be a former President, a home appliance manufacturer, and a fictional school teacher?
Answer: Hoover

Question: For a point each, name the 2 countries that surround the Republic of Suriname
Answer: Guyana and Brazil

Question: Who’s missing: Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Richard Karn, John O’Hurley, Steve Harvey
Answer: Richard Dawson

Question: Published today in 1949, which George Orwell novel features Winston Smith and Big Brother?
Answer: 1984

Question: In the classic L. Frank Baum story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which of Dorothy's traveling companion was searching for a heart?
Answer: Tin Woodman

Question: What can be a Roman goddess, an academy award winning movie, and a beach?
Answer: Juno

Question: Attracting 65,000 fans to Qwest field on Saturday, U2 completed the Seattle leg of their tour. Which rocker opened for the band?
Answer: Lenny Kravitz

Question: What is stored in a scabbard?
Answer: Sword

Question: What popular sandwich consists of a hamburger patty, sautĂŠed onions, and Swiss cheese on rye bread, which is then grilled?
Answer: Patty Melt

Question: On June 5, 1968, noted asshat Sirhan Sirhan killed what presidential candidate in the kitchen of The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles?
Answer: Robert F Kennedy

Question: Nicknamed Dr. Death, what famed American assisted suicide activist, who passed on this last week, spent 8 years in prison on a second degree murder charge?
Answer: Jack Kevorkian

Question: Formerly known as Sky Dome, Rogers Centre is home to what American League baseball team, the only MLB team located outside the United States?
Answer: Toronto Blue Jays

Question: Voiced by Julie Kavner, who are the older twin sisters of Marge Simpson?
Answer: Patty and Selma Bouvier

Question: Known as the Yellowhammer State, what was the 22nd state to join the Union on December 14, 1819?
Answer: Alabama

Question: Starting when a glue pot in Victor Clairmont's cabinet-making shop boiled over, 32 blocks of what city was devastated by a fire starting on June 6, 1889?
Answer: Seattle

Question: What type of animal is cartoon character Pepe Le Pew?
Answer: Skunk

Question: June 4, 1723 saw the birth, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, of what social philosopher and pioneer of economics, who wrote such weighty tomes as The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations?
Answer: Adam Smith

Question: What is added to copper to make bronze?
Answer: Tin

Question: Joe Chill is a petty mugger who, one nights, murders Thomas and Martha Wayne during an attempted robbery, leaving behind an orphan who grows up to be whom?
Answer: Batman

Question: Bridget Bishop was hanged on June 10, 1692 at Gallows Hill near what Massachusetts city for certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries?
Answer: Salem

Question: What sailor suit wearing, short tempered cartoon character made his first appearance on June 9, 1934 in the Silly Symphonies cartoon The Wise Little Hen?
Answer: Donald Duck

Question: June 8, 1949 saw London publishers Secker and Warburg which book which features a perpetual war between Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia?
Answer: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Question: June 7, 1866 saw the death of Chief Seattle, after whom some city somewhere is probably named. What tribe was he the chief of?
Answer: Duwamish

Question: Which newspaper heiress was kidnapped by a left-wing urban guerilla group, called the SLA, and spent a year and a half enmeshed in the group?
Answer: Patty Hearst

Question: What recurring Saturday Night Live sketch featured father Beldar (Dan Aykroyd), mother Prymaat (Jane Curtain) and daughter Connie (Laraine Newman)?
Answer: The Coneheaeds

Question: What radio station do you find at 1300 on your local AM dial?
Answer: Kkol

Question: June 8, 1867 saw the birth of what American architect and interior designer, and leader of the Prairie school movement, whose most famous design is Fallingwater in Pittsburg?
Answer: Frank Lloyd Wright

Question: In what 1959 Peter Sellers movie does the Duchy of Grand Fenwick invade the US in an attempt to start a war so that the US will rebuild their nation following its victory?
Answer: The Mouse that Roared

Question: For a point each, name the 6 countries surrounding Burkina Faso
Answer: Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast

Question: If I prank call a store asking if they have Prince Albert in a can, what type of product am I looking for?
Answer: Tobacco

Question: For a point each, name the 2 current US Senators from the state of Washington.
Answer: Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray

Question: What is the name for the region of mostly calm weather found at the center of a strong hurricane?
Answer: Eye