CHIMPS
NOT AN EMPTY GESTURE
SONGS OF LOS ANGELES
LET'S HAVE SOME BREAKFAST!
Final Jeopardy
200
Society in this 1968 film has classes: gorillas are military, orangutans work in government, chimps are scientists
Planet of the Apes
200
Flirting with a member of our audience? Extend a thumb to your ear & a pinkie to your lips indicating this 2-word instruction
call me
200
Rivers Cuomo of Weezer wishes he could live in this ritzy enclave: "that's where I want to be"
Beverly Hills
200
The Belgian type of this breakfast staple got its current popular name due to a naming mix-up at the 1964 N.Y. World's Fair
waffles
200
A.I.
The name of this virtual assistant was inspired by an ancient library once said to contain all the world's knowledge
400
Birds don't, but almost every night, a chimp makes a new one of these tree-beds; researchers want to know: why?
a nest
400
In a gesture popularized by a 2004 Jay-Z hit, to de-stress, just brush the "dirt off your" this
shoulders
400
This Courtney Love band sang of Malibu, "the sun goes down / I watch you slip away / And the sun goes down / I walk into the waves"
Hole
400
If you're taking the meat out of your eggs Benedict, try eggs Florentine, made with heaps of this leafy green
spinach
400
The name of this virtual assistant was inspired by an ancient library once said to contain all the world's knowledge
Alexa
600
Toolmaking was thought human-only until Jane Goodall saw a chimp fishing in a mound, these insects' version of an anthill
termite
600
A gesture The N.Y. Times has called "a human version of those best-friends-forever lockets" is the "hand" this
heart
600
Tom Petty went free-fallin' with "all the vampires walkin' through the Valley... down" this long street
Ventura Boulevard
600
Shakshuka is a delish one-pan dish in which the eggs are cooked this way, which also means "stolen" in another sense
poached
800
The arms-up pose here is called GHC, "H-C" for "hand clasp" & "G" for this activity that removes parasites plus has a social component
grooming
800
Daily Double!!
A Jewish blessing was the inspiration for this split-fingered salute given by a sci-fi race
800
Sheryl Crow didn't want much in "All I Wanna Do"--just to "have some fun until the sun comes up over" this street
Santa Monica Boulevard
800
You need a "Z" to spell this Spanish sausage that's great in a breakfast burrito or a homemade hash
chorizo
1000
This river often forms a dividing line between primate populations, with chimps north of it & pygmy chimps, aka bonobos, south
the Congo River
1000
It became the first official hand gesture of a U.S. state when Hawaii gave it its due in 2024
the shaka (hang loose)
1000
In "I Love L.A." this legend notes that "from the South Bay to the Valley... everybody's very happy"
(Randy) Newman
1000
This granola-adjacent Swiss treat made of rolled oats & often dried fruits wasn't a breakfast staple originally
muesli
1000
A Jewish blessing was the inspiration for this split-fingered salute given by a sci-fi race
live long and prosper (the Vulcan salute)