Sunday Super Quiz February 9, 2025

Merlin is the wizard in Disney's 1963 animated feature The Sword in the Stone. Considered the world's most powerful wizard, Merlin tasks himself with educating a young boy named Arthur.

In Greek and later Roman mythology, the Cyclopes are giant one-eyed creatures.

Alabama is nicknamed the Yellowhammer State after the state bird. The state is also known as the "Heart of Dixie" and the "Cotton State". Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States.

In the sixties, Marlboro used the slogan "Come to where the flavor is. Come to Marlboro country."

Judy Blume wrote this coming-of-age novel, published in 1970.

Tennis balls are filled with air and are surfaced by a uniform felt-covered rubber compound. Tennis ball felts comprise wool, nylon, and cotton in a mixture surrounding the rubber edge.

Captain James Hook is the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play Peter Pan. He is a pirate captain of the brig Jolly Roger.

Lou Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. He was the first MLB player to have his uniform number retired by a team when his number 4 was retired by the Yankees. 

Georgia is known as "The Peach State." It is also known as "The Empire State of the South."

The letter I in CIA stands for Intelligence, which is the primary function of the Central Intelligence Agency. It is an intelligence-gathering agency of the United States federal government, with its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, a few miles west of Washington, D.C.

Desdemona is Othello's wife in the play "Othello." She is a Venetian beauty who enrages and disappoints her father, a Venetian senator when she elopes with Othello, a Moorish Venetian military prodigy.

Buckingham Palace became the principal royal residence in 1837 on the accession of Queen Victoria, the first monarch to reside there.

The English band Take That was formed in 1990 by Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen, and Robbie Williams. Take That dominated the UK charts in the first half of the 1990s, winning many BRIT Awards. Their British number-one hits include Pray, Everything Changes, Back for Good, and How Deep Is Your Love.

Couples generally celebrate a diamond wedding anniversary after 60 years of marriage.

Gauloises is a brand of cigarette of French origin.

The Knight is the only piece in the game of Chess that can skip over the other pieces when it moves.

Captain James Cook was a British explorer and captain in the Royal Navy. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean and recorded the first European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands.

One of Louis Armstrong's nicknames was "Satchmo," which is short for "Satchel mouth." The nickname has many possible origins.

The Alhambra is a palace and fortress complex located in Granada, Spain. It is one of the most famous monuments of Islamic architecture and one of the best-preserved palaces of the historic Islamic world. The name Alhambra originates in an Arabic word meaning "red castle or vermilion," perhaps due to the color tone of the towers and walls that surround the hill of La Sabica. 

This event takes place in Pamplona during the San Fermín festival.