- On Jan. 5, 1885, Boston swore in its first mayor of what ethnicity?
- In January 2023, what country at last eased COVID-19 travel restrictions and reopened its borders?
- In 1942 what folksinger from Oklahoma created a list of “New Years Rulin’s,” including “Save dough,” Stay glad” and “Change socks”?
- On Jan. 6, 1832, the New England Anti-Slavery Society was organized at the African Meeting House in what city?
- What island country’s flag includes a shipwreck image?
- On the radio, what was “the little town that time forgot, and the decades cannot improve”?
- On Jan. 7, 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game (in Hinckley, Ill.); in what year did they first play a game in Harlem: 1928, 1945 or 1968?
- What city – now the most linguistically diverse city in the world – has an old law stating that it is illegal to exhibit from house windows puppet shows or other entertainment?
- On Jan. 8 in what year was the U.S. national debt $0 (the only time): 1779, 1835 or 1851?
- How are Salvador, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília similar?
- In what play did Shakespeare write, “…winter tames man, woman, and beast…”?
- On Jan. 9, 1930, what hockey team won its 14th straight game?
- The Belgian city of Bruges created a pipeline (helped by crowdfunding) between its center and its suburbs carrying what?
- In January 1875, what well-known clergyman – a brother of author Harriet Beecher Stowe – was a party in an adultery trial that had a hung jury?
- On Jan. 10, 49 BC, what dictator-to-be defied a law by crossing the Rubicon River – and started a civil war?
- What word can mean a jester’s cap, part of a rooster and the name of a flower?
- How are “West Side Story,” “Mass” and “Fancy Free” similar?
- What is a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle more commonly known as?
- In May 1989 Trump: The Game was launched with the tagline “It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s whether you win!”; what game inspired that game?
- January 11 is National Milk Day, which commemorates what milk storage method?