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Titanic

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What movie was being shown aboard the Titanic when it hit the iceburg?

Geometry Problems of Antiquity

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What, specifically, are the "Geometric Problems of Antiquity"?

Patron Saints

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Who is the patron saint of television?

Solresol

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What is "Solresol"?

AC

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What was the first building to feature modern air conditioning solely for the comfort of the employees? (Rather than to improve a manufacturing process, or provide extended ...

Geography

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Where is the lowest point on the surface of the earth (that is not underwater)?

Scientists

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You may remember Avogadro's Number from high school chemistry. (Don't worry, that's not the question.) What was Amedeo Avogadro's profession before he turned to science?

Famous Brothers

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Clint Howard has worked together on a number of projects with his brother Ron Howard, which was the first?

Constitutional Amendments

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The 27th Amendment to the US Constitution, was fully ratified in 1992. How long did it take to ratify?

Guns in Space

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Why has the crew of every Soyuz spacecraft been equipped with a sawed-off shotgun?

TV Themes

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Who wrote theme songs for all three of the following TV shows: "Facts of Life", "Diff'rent Strokes", and "Wheel of Fortune"?

Christmas Songs

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Who wrote the Christmas song "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"?

Packy East

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Who was Packy East?

Convoy

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Who wrote "Convoy", the truck-driving hit from the 1970's? (hint: the answer is not C.W. McCall)

Donald Kaufman

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Donald Kaufman was recently nominated for an Academy Award. No one like Donald Kaufman has ever been nominated before. What is so unusual about Donald Kaufman?

Yugoslavia

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What six republics made up the former Yugoslavia?

Words

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What is the most frequently used word on the planet?

Kumbaya, My Lord, Kumbaya...

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What does the word "kumbaya" mean?

The Physics of Fishing

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This week's question is inspired by a series of physics questions currently appearing on city buses in Amherst, Massachusetts... Say you are out fishing, in a boat on a lake, ...

U.S. Robotics

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How did modem company U.S. Robotics get its name?

Racketeer Nickel

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What is a Racketeer Nickel?

The Holodeck

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What episode of Star Trek featured the first appearance of a "holodeck"? (Hint: it was not called a "holodeck" at the time.)

Jazz

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Who invented jazz? (i.e., who is generally regarded as the first jazz musician?)

New Words

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Who is credited with coining the words "reaganomics", "bumpersnickers", "skyjacker", and "guesstimate"?

 

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