John Bernhisel

Questions

What state is most associated with each of these foods: Dirty soda, Spam musubi, cheese curds, lobster rolls and beignets?

Name the four largest moons of Jupiter.

If every boat floating on the ocean magically moved onto the Sahara Desert, would sea levels go up, go down or stay the same?

The 2025 film "One Battle After Another" won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Name six other Best Picture winners with a number in the title.

Give the first names of all five members of the Darling family in Peter Pan.

Fun Facts

The distance between railroad rails in Russia is about 4 inches wider than the standard gauge used throughout most of Europe. Although the broader gauge was not originally adopted as a military defense, it later became a significant obstacle to invading armies.

Since 1890, Thermopolis, Greybull, Worland and Cody have been at different times the largest towns in the Big Horn Basin. Cody has held the title since the 1970 census. 

If you swam in a different Minnesota lake of more than 10 acres every day, it would take more than 33 years to swim in them all. Unfortunately, most are frozen for about four months each year, stretching the task to roughly 44 years.

During the summer, about 10% of the bees in a hive are drones. As winter approaches, the workers force them out of the hive, leaving them to starve or freeze. Because drones don’t forage or perform other colony work, evicting them helps conserve the hive’s food supply through the winter. 

John C. Breckinridge was the youngest U.S. vice president ever, serving under James Buchanan. In 1860, he ran for president but lost to Abraham Lincoln. He later served as a major general in the Confederate Army and died of cirrhosis at age 54. The next two youngest vice presidents were Richard Nixon and J.D. Vance.

Lobster was once considered low-class food and was commonly fed to prisoners and servants in the Northeast. That changed with the expansion of railroads, which allowed lobster to be shipped inland, where it eventually became a delicacy.

Manhole covers on streets used for auto racing sometimes have to be welded shut because the low pressure created beneath a fast-moving race car can actually lift the covers into the air.

Answers

Dirty soda — Utah; Spam musubi — Hawaii; cheese curds — Wisconsin; lobster roll — Maine; beignets — Louisiana.

Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa. (Next: Amalthea, Himalia and Elara.)

Down slightly. (Floating boats displace their own weight in water. Remove them from the ocean and sea level falls, although only by the width of a human hair.)

"It Happened One Night" (1934), "Around the World in 80 Days" (1956), "The Godfather Part II" (1974), "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" (1975), "Million Dollar Baby" (2004), "12 Years a Slave" (2013).

Parents — George, Mary, Children - Wendy, John and Michael.