Potent Potables
Random s*** in Brandon's Office
Books on Brandon's Shelf
Organized Crime
One-Hit Wonders
100

This hoppy beer style with high alcohol content was, despite its name, first crafted in England in 1840

What is India Pale Ale?

100

This board game, which requires players to draw random lettered tiles and assemble words for points, was originally called Criss Cross when it was designed in 1931

What is Scrabble?

100

This author of the book "How I Play Golf" is considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time

Who is Tiger Woods?

100

Prior to this famous period in American history, there was no such thing as "organized crime"

What is Prohibition?

100

This musical artist sang/rapped about taking his horse to the Old Town Road

Who is Lil Nas X?

200

This cocktail, first invented in a club of its namesake in New York City back in the 1870s, is made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters

What is a Manhattan?

200

Lunazul tequila, a major sponsor for the Atlanta United MLS team, hosts tournaments during United away games for this popular table-based game, which is based loosely on soccer

What is foosball?

200

This non-fictional story is about a small-budget Major League Baseball team that used advanced analytics to discover and then exploit inefficiencies in how other teams valued certain players

What is Moneyball?

200

On a holiday in 1929, Al Capone and his fellow gangsters dressed as police officers and gunned down seven of his rival's henchman, earning the event this nickname

What is the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre?

200

This musical group wondered Who Let the Dogs Out

Who are Baha Men?

300

This cocktail was regularly crafted and consumed by The Dude in the movie The Big Lebowski, and according to senior Obama-era intelligence officials, the nickname of the current sitting U.S. president

What is a White Russian?

300

Thousands of anglers visit the Fraser River in British Columbia every year with the goal of catching this largest North American freshwater fish species

What is a white sturgeon?

300

The Creature from Jekyll Island describes the secretive meeting held on Jekyll Island, Georgia to design this organization

What is the Federal Reserve?

300

This United States Attorney was the first to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act successfully in court, obtaining guilty verdicts and 100 year prison sentences for the heads of all five New York crime families in a single trial that lasted from February 1985 to November 1986 

Who is Rudy Giuliani?

300

This spanish-speaking group introduced the world to the Macarena

Who are Los del Rio?

400

This popular whiskey is a product of the first registered distillery in America, whose secret to success is the limestone spring water found near its Lynchburg, Tennessee facility

What is Jack Daniels?

400

This golf company is responsible for the Epic Flash series of fairway metals and drivers

What is Callaway Golf?

400

This Minnesota-based author, and graduate of Brandon's high school, wrote his first novel in 1997 about assassins that kill three of the most powerful American politicians in a single night, then demand that Congress pass a balanced budget amendment and Term Limits for Congress, or else the assassins themselves will enact Term Limits on members of Congress through continued acts of violence

Who is Vince Flynn?

400

This man, referred to as El Padrino ("The Godfather") of Mexican organized crime, formed the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1970s, controlling nearly all drug trafficking throughout the country, and along the US/Mexico border 

Who is Miguel Angel Felix Gallardo?

400

This woman sang about a man named Mickey who was so fine that he blew her mind

Who is Toni Basil?

500

This Pennsylvania-based brewery is the oldest in America, and 190 years later, accounts for 1 out of every 100 beers sold in the U.S. market

What is Yuengling?

500

This former first baseman of the World Series-winning Minnesota Twins ('87 and '91) hosted an outdoors show on local Twin Cities television from 2004-2011

Who is Kent Hrbek?

500

This man (and subject of the book Marine Sniper) had a bounty of $30,000 placed on his life by the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War (the highest known bounty during the war) and once killed an enemy sniper by shooting him through the scope

Who is Carlos Hathcock?

500

This Colombian soccer player shared a last name with his professional club's (Atletico Nacional) drug-lord owner, and was gunned down in the street after he infamously scored an own goal in the 1994 World Cup

Who is Andres Escobar?

500

This group sang about a man attempting to save his relationship by reminiscing about the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's

Who are Deep Blue Something?

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