What is Shangri-La?
- This Wisconsin native was the U.S.'s top flying ace during WWII, shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft while flying a P-38 Lightning.
Who is Dick Bong?
- This captured German vessel, temporarily renamed USS Nemo to keep its capture a secret, can now be found on display in Chicago, IL
What is U-505?
New category:
U.S. Presidential Elections
- Running on the American Independent party ticket in 1968, this man was the most recent third-party candidate to win at least one electoral vote
Who is George Wallace?
- Accusations of plagiarism lead this Democratic candidate to withdraw from the 1988 primaries
Who is Joe Biden?
- Hannibal Hamlin was the first vice-president of this man; his second vice-president later became president and was impeached
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
- “Hanging chads” were a factor in this year’s presidential election.
What is 2000?
- This newly-reelected president was famously photographed holding a newspaper that incorrectly projected a win for his opponent
Who is Harry Truman?
The newspaper was the Chicago Tribune, and Truman was showing it off, after he won, from the back of a train. The Trib’s headline was “Dewey defeats Truman!”
New category:
Advertising slogans
- “Where’s the beef?”
What is Wendy’s?
- “I put that s**t on everything.”
What is Frank’s Hot Sauce?
- “Imagination at Work.”
What is GE?
- This trade association produced a commercial celebrating its centennial in 2019.
Answer: The NFL.
- “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”
AlkaSeltzer
- Edgar this is your tummy speaking
What is Malt-O-Meal?
New category: Namesakes.
- A 10th century Danish king inspired the name and logo of this wireless technology
What is Bluetooth?
- A British Army officer and estate manager in Ireland gave his name to this form of economic protest
What is Boycott?
- An Oxford Don reputedly swapped syllables between words by accident, but this usage named for him is now mostly deliberate, for humorous or bowdlerizing effect.
What is a Spoonerism?
- This ubiquitous food item was named after an 18th century earl who invented it as a way to eat without having to leave the gaming table.
What is a sandwich?
- The practice of redrawing political districts to benefit one’s party is named after this signer of the Declaration of Independence, who later served as governor of Massachusetts and vice-president of the United States.
Who is Elbridge Gerry?
New Category: Geography
- This body of water separated the Pillars of Hercules in ancient Greek nomenclature.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
- British explorers originally referred to this summit as “Peak XV”