Tasty Tidbits
Animal Kingdom
Name the State
Toys from Long Ago
Who Am I?
100
Born in Naples, Italy, this worldwide favorite features a dough base traditionally baked in blistering wood-fired ovens and layered with tomato sauce, bubbly mozzarella, and fresh basil leaves.
What is pizza?
100
Born with dull gray plumage, these long-legged wading birds get their vivid pink color from carotenoid pigments found in the algae and brine shrimp they eat.
What are flamingos?
100
Sporting a single star on its red, white, and blue banner, this massive southern state proudly carries the nickname "The Lone Star State."
What is Texas?
100
Invented by the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, these stained redwood cylinders with interlocking notches fit together to build rustic frontier cabins with green slatted roof gables.
What are Lincoln Logs?
100
The Roman general and dictator who crossed the Rubicon, reformed the calendar, and was assassinated in the Senate on the famous Ides of March.
Who is Julius Caesar?
200
Served from bustling street carts across Mexico, this handheld staple folds soft, warm corn tortillas around slow-roasted marinated meats, finished with chopped raw onion, fresh cilantro, and lime wedges.
What are tacos?
200
Equipped with three separate hearts that pump blood through their bodies, these clever sea creatures have blue blood due to copper-based hemocyanin.
What is an octopus?
200
Dubbed the "Bluegrass State," this southern state is world-renowned for thoroughbred horse farms, rolling green pastures, and the Kentucky Derby.
What is Kentucky?
200
Sold in tall cardboard canisters, this early engineering toy supplied children with wooden spools perforated with holes and wooden dowels to assemble windmills, towers, and ferris wheels.
What is Tinkertoy?
200
Inspired by an apple falling from a tree in his orchard, this English mathematician laid down the foundational laws of gravity and universal motion.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
300
An American icon turned global staple, this classic comfort food sandwiches a hot, seasoned ground beef patty inside a toasted bun with melted cheese, lettuce, tomato slices, and pickles.
What is a hamburger (or cheeseburger)?
300
Able to rotate their wings in a full figure-eight motion at their flexible shoulder joints, these tiny birds are the only avian species capable of flying directly backward.
What are hummingbirds?
300
Famed for its deep-dish pizza, Chicago-style hot dogs, and Garrett popcorn, this Prairie State has its largest metropolis set along Lake Michigan.
What is Illinois?
300
The very first toy advertised on network television in 1952, its original kit came with pushpin eyes, ears, and mustaches designed to be poked directly into real raw kitchen vegetables.
What is Mr. Potato Head?
300
An Austrian child prodigy who began composing at age five, this classical master wrote over 800 operas, concertos, and symphonies before dying at just 35.
Who is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
400
Created by repeatedly laminating sweet yeast dough with slabs of cold butter, this golden, crescent-shaped French pastry bakes into hundreds of airy, shatteringly crisp layers.
What is a croissant?
400
Small surviving populations of this shaggy, tusked Ice Age mammal still roamed Wrangel Island in the Arctic while the Great Pyramid of Giza was being built in Egypt.
What is the woolly mammoth?
400
Known as "America's Dairyland," this state is legendary for squeaky cheese curds, sharp cheddar, bratwurst, and loyal Green Bay football fans wearing foam wedges on their heads.
What is Wisconsin?
400
Featuring a mop of red yarn hair, shoebutton eyes, and a triangle nose, this floppy cloth doll has a candy heart printed on her chest that reads "I Love You."
What is Raggedy Ann?
400
A silent-film comedy pioneer, he became an international legend playing "The Tramp," recognizable everywhere by his tight jacket, bowler hat, toothbrush mustache, and cane.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
500
Originating in Italy from simple durum wheat and water dough, this staple is shaped into hundreds of varieties like fettuccine and penne, tossed in iconic sauces like rich carbonara or slow-simmered Bolognese.
What is pasta?
500
While crows gather in a "murder" and geese fly in a "gaggle," this nocturnal bird of prey—traditionally associated with wisdom—gathers in a group officially known as a "parliament."
What is an owl?
500
Covered in dense sugar maple forests that blaze red and gold each autumn, this New England state produces more pure maple syrup than any other in the nation.
What is Vermont?
500
This groundbreaking 1959 Mattel doll spoke 11 randomized phrases—like "I love you" and "Please change my dress"—whenever a child pulled the ring on the string in her back.
What is Chatty Cathy?
500
Wearing jersey number 23 for the Chicago Bulls, this six-time NBA champion turned basketball into a worldwide phenomenon and inspired a legendary Nike sneaker line.
Who is Michael Jordan?
