A ship captain invented the donut

Questions: 

1. Which U.S. state has a capital city that cannot be reached by road?

2. Give the unique things that each of these units measure: Curies, Kelvin, furlong, barrel, lux.

3. In what year did Queen Liliʻuokalani, the last reigning monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, give up her throne?

4. Which of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was not in a country that touches the Mediterranean Sea?

5. How many U.S. states have more people than the Tokyo Metropolitan area?

Fun Facts:

Captain Crockett Gregory claimed to be the inventor of the donut. During a huge storm, he ordered his cakes made with holes in them so he could place them on the knobs of his ship’s steering wheel. He made it through the storm, and a legend was born.

A Tesla is the unit of magnetic field strength. So the more dense the magnetism the more Teslas it has. For example, the magnet in an MRI machine is a million times stronger than your fridge magnet.

Photographer Robert Landsburg died during the Mount St. Helens eruption while shielding his film with his body. Seventeen days later, both he and his preserved photos were recovered, providing rare documentation of the disaster.

Disney Princess Aurora has only 18 lines in her movie Sleeping Beauty. She’s asleep for most of the show.

Al Capone ran a no questions asked soup kitchen in Chicago that served thousands of meals a day. It was likely a way to build goodwill while facing prison for tax evasion.

Canada is home to so many lakes that only about 10 percent have official names, and fewer than 5 percent can be reached by road. To improve mapping, the government has drawn on Indigenous names when known and, in many cases, honored fallen soldiers by naming remote lakes after every Canadian who died in World War I and World War II.

In Missoula recently, a Sheriff’s Office crematorium malfunctioned while burning meth, sending toxic smoke into a nearby animal shelter. Staff rushed to free the animals and evacuate, and 14 people were hospitalized for observation.

Answers:

1. Alaska (Juneau can only be accessed by sea, air or a 250 mile long hiking path)

2. Curies - radiation, Kelvin - temperature, furlong - distance, barrel - volume, lux - light strength

3. 1893 (A group of businessmen led by the Dole pineapple family and the U.S. Marines forced her out.)

4. Hanging Gardens of Babylon in present day Iraq (others in Greece, Turkey and Egypt)

5.  One (California’s 39 million is more than Tokyo’s 37 million.)