In the 1790s, using a special vise, New England Shakers invented the first flat-not-round version of what household item?
Paula Patton and Laz Alonso get married and perform the titular tradition, in the 2011 film "Jumping the WHAT"?
Goldline makes them for curling teams, and Libman makes them for your house or for witches to ride. Name that object.
After 100-plus years, the overhead system is still the most common electric infrastructure for what theme-park attraction?
For a few years in the '60s and again in the 2010s, Disneyland ran an awesome-sounding but impractical hovercraft-based version of what ride?
Because they were originally designed NOT to run into each other, "Dodgems" was the O.G. version of what carnival staple?
Blasting bubble-nets with their blowholes is an especially videogenic hunting technique employed by what species of whales?
Thanks to a worldwide hunting ban and their flexible diet, what curvaceous whale has rebounded from nigh-extinction to a population of some 80,000?
Their coast-hugging ways and their adorable black-and-white bellies mean that what species from genus Megaptera is always a hit with whale-watchers?
The fate of the Longbourn estate is key to the plot of what O.G. Regency novel?
"The day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters" is how Jane Austen describes a double wedding in what novel?
"A single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," according to the first line of what novel that we're always confusing with "Sense and Sensibility"?
Later a president himself, now under arrest in a corruption probe: For 13 years, Luis Arce was Evo Morales's minister of finance in what country?
In the 1820s, Upper Peru was briefly the name of the regions—actually southeast of Peru—that became what South America republic?
A doubly unsurprising fact: Simon Bolívar's buddy Antonio José de Sucre was the first elected president of what B-country?