Sunday Super Quiz January 5, 2025

The Yankee Stadium's nickname is "The House That Ruth Built," derived from Babe Ruth, the baseball superstar whose prime years coincided with the stadium's opening and the beginning of the Yankees' winning history.

Aphrodite is the Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure. In Hesiod's Theogony, she was born from sea foam and Uranus's severed genitals. In Homer's Iliad, she is the daughter of Zeus and Dione.

Geppetto is a main character in Disney's 1940 animated feature film "Pinocchio". He is a friendly old woodcarver and the creator of Pinocchio, a wooden puppet.

Napoleon was deposed in 1814 and taken to the small island of Elba off the coast of Italy. Napoleon was given the island as a sovereign principality. At the same time, the monarchy was reinstated in France, and a younger brother of the executed Louis XVI became the new king.

A group of witches is called a coven. In books, a coven of witches often gather at night to make potions and cast spells. The mythology of witches has them meeting under cover of night, often in mysterious groups of 13.

The Hershey Company, often called just Hershey or Hershey's, is an American multinational confectionery company headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1894 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

God said to Moses, “Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so.

John Kellogg and Will Kellogg created Corn Flakes as a breakfast food to counter indigestion for patients at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where the brothers worked.

An escaped orangutan commits the murders. The sailor who owns the animal had been at the crime scene, but he was innocent of the murders.

Kylie Minogue released a cover of the 1962 Little Eva song Locomotion / The Loco-motion in 1987. The song spent seven weeks on top of the ARIA Singles Chart. It became the highest-selling single of the 1980s in Australia. It also topped the Canadian and Irish charts. It reached number two in the UK and number three in the US.

Little Eva is pictured.

The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition 1851. After the exhibition, it was relocated to an open area of South London until its destruction by fire in November 1936.

"We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions" is a Springsteen album of non-Springsteen material that contains his interpretation of 13 folk songs popularized by activist folk musician Pete Seeger. It was released in 2006 and was Springsteen's the fourteenth studio album.

The quote "If this the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?" is from Voltaire's book "Candide".

The PlayStation is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The PlayStation was released in Japan in December 1994, and it made its American debut in September 1995,

Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a Barbadian singer and songwriter. She is born in Saint Michael, Barbados.

In 1953, the clipper ship Cutty Sark was given to the Cutty Sark Preservation Society, and in 1954, she was moved to a custom-built dry dock in Greenwich, England.

The running score of each game is described in a manner peculiar to tennis. From zero to three points, scores are expressed as love, fifteen, thirty, and forty, respectively. If at least three points have been scored by each player, making the player's scores equal at forty apiece, the score is not called out as forty-forty, but rather as deuce.

In badminton, deuce may be used when the score is 20-20.

Brazil is the world's top coffee producer, followed by Vietnam and Colombia. Indonesia and Honduras complete the list of top five coffee producers.

Queen Victoria's uncle, Leopold I, was the first king of Belgium, reigning from 21 July 1831 until his death in 1865.

Stayin' Alive is written, produced, and recorded by the Bee Gees (Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb). It is part of the Saturday Night Fever motion picture soundtrack.