Who had a Top 10 single in the US with the song “Cry Me A River”?
What is the airspeed over a laden swallow’s wing?
More interesting trivia questions:
What was King George VI’s first name?
Where do Panama hats come from?
Which side of the Panama canal is to the west - Atlantic or Pacific?
One of my favorites:
What remake of an oldie by Tommy James and the Shondells hit #1 on the US Billboard charts in November of 1987?
That’s a good one! I recently read about that.
Who was King County, Washington named after?
Name the defensive wall, named for an emperor, that was built by the Roman empire on the Northern border of Roman Britain:
Hadrian’s Wall is more famous, but 20 years later the Antonine Wall (named for Antonius Pius) was built further North.
What top-5 lifetime homerun leader for Major League Baseball started his career in the same city but on different teams?
Or to drill it down even further:
What actor starred in the 1987 sci-fi action thrillers Predator and The Running Man, then later went on to become governor of a U.S. state?
In what catcher’s honor did the New York Yankees retire the number 8?
Zulu? 
Yes, the answers are AK, AK, AK, HA, oddly enough. Given a interpreation on “East”.
I assume you mean HI?
(Though aren’t all the Hawaiian islands well east of the 180th meridian? Or is there some other interpretation of “east” I’m missing? And why AK three times? I assume we’re going with four different interpretations of “east,” but I can’t figure them out.)
what answer other than Hank Ketcham??
http://allproudamericans.com/name-the-farthest-east-west-north-and-south-states.html
Ok, this is kind of a trick question because one state is actually the farthest north, east, and west: Alaska.
Alaska is the farthest northern state in the U.S. and because of the Aleutian Islands, which stretch across 1,200 miles and over the 180° meridian of longitude, it makes Alaska the most eastern and western state.
Thanks! Cliff was robbed, he was correct.
And which player does the Yankees’s retired number 42 represent?
Ah, so you’re answering for all four cardinal directions. I didn’t realize that. I was just reading “east” into the answers.
What is the arithmetic constant named after Leonhard Euler which frequently appears in asymptotic formulae for combinatorial optimization problems?
According to Wikpedia Panama Hats were invented in Equador. The guy who made Panama hats popular lived in the Dominican Republic, is that what you meant?
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