Part of Scotty is in space on the space station

Questions:

1. For some practicing Jews, what is the shmita or Shemitah?

2. Name the four main actors on the hit 1970s TV show All in the Family.

3. Cape Verde is this year’s FIFA Cinderella team. Where is the country of Cape Verde?

4. Which two British royals, which German emperor and which pope did Buffalo Bill Cody perform for?

5. Name all the U.S. state capitals with two- or three-word names.

Fun Facts:

James Doohan, the actor who played Scotty on Star Trek, died in 2005 at the age of 85. A few years later, his son Chris and astronaut Richard Garriott secretly smuggled a small portion of Doohan’s ashes aboard the International Space Station. Hidden beneath the floor of the station’s Columbus laboratory, the ashes have remained in orbit for more than 17 years, traveling well over 4.5 billion miles around Earth.

Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. president to be born after the Declaration of Independence. He was born in 1782 and served as the eighth president in 1837.

Wyoming gave women the right to vote 51 years before the 19th Amendment gave the right to all U.S. women.

An estimated 250 million honeybees were at risk recently when a semi-truck hauling beehives between pollination jobs overturned near Yellowstone National Park. Beekeepers managed to recover roughly half the bees, while the rest took to the air in search of new homes. The accident also left the highway coated in honey, and one sheriff’s deputy directing traffic was stung eight times.

In the early 1800s, a man named Frederic Tudor made a fortune harvesting ice in New England and shipping it as far as India and Hong Kong. He was known as the Boston Ice King.

When more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple died in the 1978 mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, some of the few survivors were members of the settlement’s basketball team, who were away playing a game in the Guyanese capital. Among them was Jim Jones Jr., the adopted son of cult leader Jim Jones.

In the 1830s, it is estimated the average American adult drank the equivalent of about four shots of whiskey per day.

Dell and Steph Curry rank second among father-son duos with 39,198 combined NBA regular-season points. They trail only LeBron and Bronny James, who have combined for 43,624 points; of those, just 184 points are Bronny’s.

Answers:

1. It is the “Sabbath of the land,” or the seventh year of agriculture, when the land is to rest. Some farmers in Israel lease their land to Gentiles during those years.

2. Carroll O’Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers. Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford played the Jeffersons, Archie’s neighbors.

3. It is an island nation about 400 miles west of Senegal, off the coast of West Africa.

4. Queen Victoria, the future King George V, German Kaiser Wilhelm II and Pope Leo XIII.

5. Little Rock, Saint Paul, Des Moines, Santa Fe, Baton Rouge, Jefferson City, Carson City, Oklahoma City and Salt Lake City.