Sunday Super Quiz February 23, 2025

A Bloody Mary cocktail contains vodka, tomato juice, and other spices and flavorings, including Worcestershire sauce.

Lilian Jackson Braun was an American writer known for her light-hearted series of "The Cat Who" mystery novels. The Cat Who series features newspaper journalist Jim Qwilleran and his two Siamese cats.

Semimonthly is an adjective that means happening twice a month.

Ergo is the Latin term that translates to "therefore" in English. Compare the Latin quote "cogito, ergo sum," which is usually translated into English as "I think. Therefore, I am."

The Tasman Sea is a marginal South Pacific Ocean sea between Australia and New Zealand.

The Sound of Music (1959) is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Many songs from the musical have become classics, such as "My Favorite Things," "Climb Ev'ry Mountain," "Edelweiss," "Do-Re-Mi," and the title song "The Sound of Music."

The $5 note features a portrait of President Abraham Lincoln on the front. The vignette on the back of the note changed in 1929 to feature the Lincoln Memorial.

Deep Throat is the pseudonym given to the secret informant who provided information in 1972 to Bob Woodward, who shared it with Carl Bernstein at  The Washington Post. Deep Throat provided key details about the involvement of US President Richard Nixon's administration in what came to be known as the Watergate scandal.

Botanically speaking, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from the ovary of a flowering plant, whereas vegetables are all other plant parts, such as roots, leaves, and stems.

Ballon d'Or is an individual football award from the French football magazine France Football. Lionel Messi has the most wins with eight. Cristiano Ronaldo has received the award five times. Michel Platini from France is one of three players to receive the award three times. He also got it three years in a row.

Zinedine Zidane won the award in 1998.

Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappé have not been awarded Ballon d'Or (updated 2023).

Topeka is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas

Phantom of the Opera is a musical with lyrics and a book by Ken Hill. It is based on the 1910 novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. It is set at the Paris Opera House in Paris, France.

Albatross is a guitar-based instrumental by Fleetwood Mac, released as a single in November 1968. It topped the charts in Great Britain and the Netherlands and became a major hit in many other countries in 1969. Oh Well reached No. 2 on the UK Charts in November 1969, spending 16 weeks on the chart. In the Dutch Top 40, the song peaked at No. 1 and spent 11 weeks in the top 40.[24] It also reached the top 5 in Ireland, Norway, and New Zealand, as well as the top 10 in Germany and Switzerland. 

Stay by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs holds this record. It is a doo-wop song that runs for one minute and 36 seconds. It was written by Maurice Williams and first recorded in 1960 by Williams with his group, the Zodiacs. Commercially successful versions were later released by the Hollies, the Four Seasons, and Jackson Browne. 

The 1, 2, and 3, which use the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line through Midtown Manhattan, are red. Two of the stops are 34th Street–Penn Station and South Ferry.

When Dorothy explains her intention to see the Wizard of Oz in the hopes that he can return her to Kansas, the Scarecrow asks if he can tag along and ask the Wizard for some brains. The Scarecrow is made of straw and can feel no pain; the only thing he fears is fire. But because his head is full of straw, the Scarecrow assumes he must not have a brain.

During the 1976 election cycle, journalists dubbed Rosalynn Carter the "Steel Magnolia" for having a fragile and feminine appearance that concealed a "tough as nails" interior.

Hotmail was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 and launched as MSN Hotmail, later rebranded to Windows Live Hotmail. In 2013, Microsoft replaced Hotmail with Outlook.com.

The coffee shop on "Friends" is called Central Perk.

The Great Mouse Detective is a 1986 animated feature film by Walt Disney Pictures, based on the children's book series Basil, mouse detective by Paul Galdone and Eve Titus.