Q 01/05

Which New York skyscraper was hit in July 1945 by a B-25 bomber lost in thick fog?

A) Chrysler Building

B) Empire State Building

C) Woolworth Building

D) Metropolitan Life Tower

Answer · why

B) Empire State Building

The Empire State Building was struck between its 78th and 80th floors, yet many floors reopened for business the following Monday. The pilot had been ...

Q 02/05

Which first name do San Franciscans give their summer fog, after a giant in the film Big Fish?

A) Karl

B) Walt

C) Hank

D) Otis

Answer · why

A) Karl

Karl the Fog began in 2010 as an anonymous Twitter account for the city's fog, and the name has been widely used ever since. A companion Instagram acc...

Q 03/05

Which towering trees of California's northern shore drink summer fog directly through their leaves?

A) Giant sequoias

B) Ponderosa pines

C) Coast redwoods

D) Monterey pines

Answer · why

C) Coast redwoods

Coast redwoods grow tallest where fog is most frequent, and the tallest trees thin out wherever it becomes rarer. Fog that drips from their foliage al...

Q 04/05

Aviation's deadliest accident, a 1977 collision of two 747s in dense fog, happened on which island?

A) Madeira

B) Majorca

C) Lanzarote

D) Tenerife

Answer · why

D) Tenerife

Tenerife was so fogbound that neither crew could see the other jet on the runway, and the controller could see neither of them. The collision killed 5...

Q 05/05

The London Fog, a milky vanilla drink invented in Vancouver in the 1990s, is made with which tea?

A) Earl Grey

B) English Breakfast

C) Darjeeling

D) Lapsang Souchong

Answer · why

A) Earl Grey

Earl Grey gives the drink its citrusy bergamot note under the steamed milk. Mary Loria came up with it at a Vancouver cafe while she was pregnant, the...