In a honeybee colony, what are the male bees called?
Answer: Drones
They have no stinger and don't gather food; their main job is to mate with a queen from another colony.
Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states, is in which state?
Answer: California
Its summit, about 14,505 feet up, marks the southern end of the 211-mile John Muir Trail.
In a standard game of Scrabble, how many letter tiles does each player keep on their rack?
Answer: Seven
Playing every tile on your rack in one turn earns a 50-point bonus, which fans call a bingo.
Honeybee foragers perform a "waggle dance" to tell their hivemates what?
Answer: Where to find food
Austrian scientist Karl von Frisch decoded the dance and shared the 1973 Nobel Prize for his work.
Pikes Peak, the summit whose view inspired the poem behind "America the Beautiful," is in which state?
Answer: Colorado
Katharine Lee Bates wrote the poem after a trip to the 14,115-foot summit in the summer of 1893.
Which children's board game did Eleanor Abbott design in the 1940s while recovering from polio in San Diego?
Answer: Candy Land
Milton Bradley released it in 1949, and since play is all about matching colors, no reading is required.
Wildcard: The Slinky was dreamed up in 1943 by an engineer who watched what tumble off a shelf?
Answer: A spring
Richard James was working on springs for Navy ship instruments; his wife, Betty, found the name in a dictionary.
How many eyes does a honeybee have?
Answer: Five
Besides two big compound eyes, three tiny simple eyes called ocelli on top of the head help it sense light.
The pyramid-shaped Matterhorn sits on the border between Switzerland and which other country?
Answer: Italy
Disneyland's replica opened in 1959 with Matterhorn Bobsleds, the first roller coaster with tubular steel track.
In the classic US edition of the board game Clue, what is the murder victim's name?
Answer: Mr. Boddy
In Britain's Cluedo he's Dr. Black, and a 2023 US refresh merged the two into Boddy Black.
