Grammar
COFFEE
Los Angeles
Da Bears
Miscellany
100

"To boldly go where no one has gone before" is both the tag line to a science fiction classic and this problematic construction.

What is a split infinitive?

100

Coffee is not truly a bean but rather this type of food. 

What is a fruit?

100

What the "Hollywood" sign originally said, or the animal is it illegal to lick in Los Angeles.

What is "Hollywoodland" or a toad?

100

When it comes to the Football Hall of Fame, the Chicago Bears have this distinction. 

What is the most enshrinees?


100

The oldest bar in the world is located in this country. 

What is Ireland (Sean's bar, 900 CE)?

200

According to Benjamin Dreyer, "only godless savages eschew" this piece of punctuation. 

What is the series (or Oxford) comma?

200

As a Commodity traded in the world market, coffee holds what rank?

What is second?

200

Los Angeles was originally called “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora Reina de los Angeles sobre el Rio Porciuncula" and by 1923 was one of the world's leading producers of this. 

What is oil?

200

The Bears' trademark "C" logo was originally the logo of this group.

Who are the Chicago Cardinals? 

200

Within 5%, the Humbolt State acceptance rate.

What is 76%?

300
"Dreyer's English" calls this form of writing a "mirror in which people generally discover everybody's face but their own."

What is satire?

300

The only state in the United states to grow coffee. 

What is Hawaii?

300

In Los Angeles, these baggy items been banned ever since 1943.

What are Zoot suits?
300

Some species of Asiatic bears build these in trees. 

What are nests?

300

This animal is considered "the most suicidal". 

What is a squirrel?

400

The nonexistent word "dord" appeared in the dictionary for eight years in the mid-20th century. What such a word is called. 

What is a "ghost word"?

400

The two major types of coffee. 

What are Arabica and Robusto?
400

This city office, frequented by law enforcement, has its own gift shop in L.A.

What is the Coroner's Office?

400

The Bears helped organize professional football in 1920. At that time, they were called this name.  

What is the Decatur Staleys?

400

Ernest Hemmingway invented a cocktail called "Death in the afternoon" made out of these two alcoholic ingredients. 

What are Absinthe and Champagne?

500

The words "shattered" and "scattered" used to mean the same thing. When the old English merged with the Viking languages they split the meanings up. THIS was the original meaning of both words. 

What is to "break apart"?

500

Coffee stays warmer longer if you add cream, because of the mysteries of physics. Within 10%, how much longer? 

What is 20% longer?

500

In 2015, there were 65 Angelinos named this famous name. 

What is Jesus Christ?

500

This Bears Quarterback was born in Santa Claus, Indiana. 

Who is Jay Cutler?

500

In this US state, bartenders need to mix cocktails behind a curtain. 

What is Utah?

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