1. 80s to early 90s, Baltimore
   80s to early 90s, Seattle
2. 1990s overall, Miami
   1990s overall, Boston

Though grunge music became huge in the early 1990s, the movement gained steam in the Pacific Northwest throughout the 1980s. It is most associated with the Emerald City -- Seattle.

1. The Daytona 500
   The Coca-Cola 600
2. The Ford Eco Boost 400
   The Winston 500

During the 2001 Daytona 500, Earnhardt's car hit another car, and then the retaining wall. It didn't seem to be a serious crash, and fans and fellow drivers were shocked to learn that Earnhardt had died, probably immediately on impact. The cause of death was a basilar skull fracture.

1. Creating the World Wide Web
   Inventing snowboarding
2. Scaling Trump Tower
   Creating the cronut

Wait, didn't Al Gore create the Internet? Well, the World Wide Web isn't quite the same thing. It's a broad index in which all addresses start "www." Everything else -- and there's a lot of "everything else" out there -- is the Deep Web.

1. Congress
   The President
2. The Supreme Court
   The Press

No matter who brags about having a "nuclear button," it's Congress that has to declare war. (And yes, we know that the press isn't a branch of government ... though they're sometimes called "the Fourth Estate."

1. "to form a more perfect union"
   "to ensure the right to bear arms"
2. "to promote the general welfare"
   "to secure the blessings of liberty"

The right to bear arms is assured in the Second Amendment. The other three phrases are on the list that ends with "to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."

1. Clark Kent
   Will Scarlet
2. Freedman
   White hat

In Western movies, the good guys often wore white hats and the bad guys, black hats. The terms have come to mean "good guys" and "bad guys," and are especially applied to hacking.

1. Blinking
   Lifting
2. Hauling
   Tacking

Often, sailors "tack" back and forth across the wind to gain momentum in a desired direction. The opposite is "jibing," in which the stern crosses the wind.

1. Canada
   Japan
2. Russia
   Ukraine

Lake Baikal is the world's deepest lake and the seventh-largest freshwater lake. But think again about it as a vacation spot: it's located in Siberia, and summertime temperatures rarely go over 55 degrees.

1. The NHL
   NASCAR
2. The UFC
   The XFL

The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing was started by "Big Bill" France. Stock car racing had been around for decades earlier, but as loosely-organized folk entertainment.

1. Dentistry
   Haute cuisine
2. Psychiatry
   Radiology

The DSM-5 is the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, Vol 5". It lists and describes psychiatric disorders, and is periodically updated as understanding of mental illness changes.

1. Barbering
   Logic
2. High cuisine
   Textile-making

A "razor" in logic is something that shaves away unnecessary or extraneous ideas. Occam's Razor says that any extra suppositions which don't go toward proving a hypothesis should be stripped away -- or that the simplest explanation is best.

1. Holly Holm
   Miesha Tate
2. Paige Van Zandt
   Kat Zingano

Rousey was considered virtually unbeatable before the November 2015 match, having won 12 previous UFC fights, some of them in a matter of seconds. Holm defeated her with a high kick to the head, which resulted in a 60-day medical suspension for Rousey.

1. Boxer Rebellion
   Confucian Rebellion
2. Xianping Rebellion
   Nativist Rebellion

The Boxer Rebellion got its name from the number of martial-arts practitioners who were involved in it. It was an uprising against foreign and Christian influences in China.

1. The Articles of Confederation
   The Declaration of Independence
2. The Magna Carta
   The Pentagon Papers

The initial documents the Founding Fathers drew up to govern the new nation were the Articles of Confederation. A major drawback was that they didn't allow for taxation -- a substantial problem for a country that needed to maintain an army and navy.

1. Dalmatians
   Jack Russell terriers
2. Pugs
   Labrador Retrievers

Lively and energetic, Dalmatians used to run alongside coaches to discourage thieves. They were later adopted by firehouses, as companion and mascot dogs.

1. Theda Bara
   Jodie Foster
2. Julia Roberts
   Elizabeth Taylor

"La Liz" broke this mark with her role in the big-budget "Cleopatra." William Holden had already been paid $1 million for "The Bridge Over the River Kwai."

1. Attar
   Cologne
2. Eau
   Scent

"Attar" comes from the Arabic word "itr," meaning "perfume." Attar of roses is still very popular in the Middle East.

1. Eye
   Ear
2. Hand
   Foot

The cochlea is a spiral-shaped chamber in the ear, essential to hearing. A cochlear implant can provide hearing to deaf people, but they do not always opt for one, as some deaf people are offended by the idea that deafness is a defect to be fixed.

1. Gears of War
   Halo
2. Mario Kart
   Pac-Man

Mario Kart is one of Nintendo's most popular games. It was first released in 1992. Players can use the peels and shells to trip up opponents.

1. China
   Japan
2. Qatar
   South Korea

Samsung is one of the biggest success stories to come from this small East Asian nation. South Korea's economy was stagnant for years after the Korean Conflict ended, but not anymore.

1. Bumblebees shouldn't be able to fly
   Excessive computer work causes carpal-tunnel syndrome
2. Suicides go up around the holidays
   None of these are true

Yup, even the carpal tunnel one isn't true. People want to believe this, because spending lots of time on a computer just 'feels' unhealthy, but the truth is that the medical problem has no single known cause. It does seem to have a genetic component.

1. Fatboy Slim
   Kylie Minogue
2. Moby
   Eminem

Fatboy Slim is a British musician and DJ. The "Weapon of Choice" video is a fan favorite because of the performance of Christopher Walken, who dances all over an otherwise empty hotel.

1. Clint Eastwood
   Sam Peckinpah
2. Orson Welles
   John Ford

Welles was only married to the "Gilda" star from 1943 to 1947. He directed her and acted alongside her in "The Lady From Shanghai," though they were separated at that time.

1. Hank of hair
   Poison
2. Support structure
   Personal weakness

This word has an interesting origin. A "foible" is also the most flexible part of a sword's blade -- a potential weak point.

1. Lead a national rugby team
   Earn a teaching credential
2. Play violin with the LA Philarmonic
   Sail around the world unaccompanied

Dekker had to go to court in her home of the Netherlands to be able to make the trip. The Dutch authorities had stepped in, asserting she was endangering herself with the plan. But Dekker successfully made the trip, finishing in 2010.

1. Basil
   Cilantro
2. Rosemary
   Turmeric

For a while, curcumin was the darling of the supplement industry, because it showed great promise as an anti-inflammatory agent. Sadly, in clinical trials, it was discovered that curcumin is about 1 percent bioavailable, meaning 99 percent is destroyed by the liver and kidneys. So use it to give your curry a beautiful color, but don't count on any health benefit.

1. beliefs
   illnesses
2. pets
   spouses

To clarify, the main issue with being heterodox is that you have multiple beliefs that don't usually go together. There are many tenets of Catholicism, but to believe in all of them doesn't make you heterodox.

1. an ocean
   a flower
2. an order of monks
   a pastry

The coloring of the monkey's fur reminded explorers of Capuchin monks, whose hood is called a "cappuccio." (And now, we want coffee!)

1. Lack of sleep
   Smoking
2. Stupidity
   No one knows

You'll find this term in medicine, in which diseases without a known cause are idiopathic. This doesn't mean there isn't a root cause, just that it's not known yet.

1. Boyle's hypothesis
   Cold fusion
2. Thermogenesis
   the China Syndrome

"Cold fusion" has been a dream of pop scientists and sci-fi writers for a long time, as it would provide cheap energy for millions of people. But the consensus of the scientific community is that it's a pipe dream.

1. Being a proto-computer programmer
   Working on Morse Code
2. Championing smallpox inoculation
   Writing children's novels

Ada Lovelace was a mathematician who worked on Charles Babbage's "analytical engine" and wrote an algorithm for it. She died at age 36, the same age as her famous father, Lord Byron.

1. Baron Samedi
   Erzulie Dantor
2. Erzulie Freda
   Papa Legba

Papa Legba is the guardian of the crossroads, who grants permission to speak to the other loa. He is a patron of speech and communication.

1. China
   Japan
2. Peru
   Yemen

"Sol" is Spanish for "sun." You'll need some if you visit to try their fantastic cuisine and pisco sour cocktails.

1. A fashion show
   The start of the Trojan War
2. A wine tasting
   Both #2 and #3

Before 1976, the judgment of Paris was an event from Greek myth, in which the youth Paris judged three goddesses in a beauty contest (and accidentally set the Trojan War in motion). Since 1976, winemakers also know it as a blind tasting in which American wines (specifically, Californian ones) defeated French wines, an upset of shocking proportions.

1. airline
   bird
2. cola
   fruit

You might not see a lot of Saudia planes flying in and out of US airports. The wealthy upper classes in that country are more likely to fly by private jet.