Although Ascanio Sobrero invented this, it was Alfred Nobel who figured out to a way to let that poisonous (and extremely dangerous) yellow oil soak harmlessly (for a while) into clay, creating dynamite. What is it?
Question 3 of 15
What Chinese food is believed to have been created by a Japanese American landscape designer, Makoto Hagiwara, as a way to deliver thank-you notes at the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco?
Question 4 of 15
German wholesaler Ludwig Roselius figured out a way to remove what chemical from coffee, when he tested a coffee bean shipment drowned in salt water?
Question 5 of 15
Which of these did Thomas Gainsborough paint?
Question 6 of 15
Which oranges have a button-like opening on one end?
Question 7 of 15
With what Swedish actress did Rod Stewart begin a love affair in 1975?
Question 8 of 15
Like the shipwrecked Robinson family he created, Johann Rudolf Wyss was what nationality?
Question 9 of 15
What type of drug promotes blood clotting?
Question 10 of 15
Neil Sedaka had a 1975 hit with laughter in which type of weather?
Question 11 of 15
In the 1950s the United States began the Space Race with which other country?
Question 12 of 15
Famous ballet 'The Nutcracker' is by which composer?
Question 13 of 15
Which of these devices would you most likely use to listen to music?
Question 14 of 15
Famous for a motorcycle sequence in The Great Escape, who in 1999 became the first movie star inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame?
Question 15 of 15
Which former president coined the phrase 'war on terror'?
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