Sunday Super Quiz June 2, 2024

The Macahans (or How the West Was Won) is an American Western series from 1976–1979 starring James Arness, Eva Marie Saint, Fionnula Flanagan, Bruce Boxleitner, and Richard Kiley. The series is loosely based and a spin-off of the feature film How the West Was Won from 1962.

At the 2024 Academy Awards, Oppenheimer was the big winner, winning awards in seven categories: Best Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Editing, Photography, and Original Score.

J. K. Rowling is the author behind the "Harry Potter" series. Her full name is Joanne Rowling, and she adopted "Kathleen" as a middle name after her grandmother.

Corona is a Mexican beer brand produced by Cervecería Modelo in Mexico City. It is one of the best-selling beers worldwide.

"Killing Eve" centers around the cat-and-mouse game between Eve, an MI6 agent, and Villanelle, a skilled and psychopathic assassin.

Zoroaster, also known as Zarathustra, was a religious reformer and the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism. He lived in the eastern part of the Iranian plateau.

Esther Summerson is the heroine. She is Dickens's only female narrator. Esther is raised as an orphan by her godmother Miss Barbary, who is in fact her aunt.

Libra is the seventh sign of the zodiac symbolized by two scales.

Rowan Atkinson played the role of Edmund Blackadder in the historical comedy series Blackadder.

Gregory Peck won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird," a role that has become iconic in American cinema.

Hungary is in the EU but still uses its currency, the forint (HUF).

The World According to Garp is a novel by John Irving published in 1978. The book has been made into a movie and was given the same name, The World According to Garp.

The Ford Mustang was introduced in 1964 and has become one of the most iconic American cars of all time.

In American football, a blitz is a defensive maneuver in which one or more linebackers or defensive backs, who normally stay behind the line of scrimmage, instead charge into the opponents' back field. A bomb is a long, distinct arcing pass.

In 2018, Swaziland changed its name to Eswatini (formally the Kingdom of Eswatini). The name has begun to establish itself internationally, but the name Swaziland still occurs in certain contexts.

Ouzo originates from Greece and is made by mixing alcohols flavored by distillation or leaching of aniseed and possibly fennel seeds.

Sandy Cheeks is a squirrel who lives underwater in a dome in Bikini Bottom. She is known for her scientific skills and Texas pride.

Manneken Pis is a famous landmark in Brussels. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating in the fountain basin. It was designed by Hieronymus Duquesnoy and built in the 17th century.

The Big Bang Theory series follows the lives of two brilliant physicist friends working at Cal Tech in Pasadena, California.

Sukiyaki is a Japanese meat and vegetable dish in the nabemono style, where the whole dish is prepared in a pot. It consists of a thinly sliced beef fillet with various ingredients such as tofu, ito konnyaku (noodles), onion, spring onion, Chinese cabbage, and enoki. Generally, sukiyaki is eaten during the cold days of the winter months, and it is a typical dish at a Japanese New Year's party (bonenkai). Sukiyaki is also a Japanese song first performed in 1961 by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto.