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What is Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 smash horror hit with the iconic shower scene?
What is Psycho?
Anthony Perkins plays Norman Bates and Janet Leigh plays Marion Crane in the famous shower scene.
French, bush, and pole are all types of what?
What are green beans?
French green beans, also called haricots verts, are slimmer and a bit longer than ordinary green beans.
Who resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.?
Who is the president?
The current occupant is President Joe Biden. John Adams, the second U.S. president, was the first president to live in the White House.
What type of building shines a light to help boats navigate the water nearby?
What is A lighthouse?
The oldest lighthouse in America that was never rebuilt is located in Sandy Hook, New Jersey. It was built in 1764 and is still in operation today
What does the Roman numeral X represent?
What is 10?
The Roman numeral system includes only seven symbols: I, V, X, L, C, D, and M.
What 1950 animated film portrays a neglected stepdaughter-turned princess, thanks to her fairy godmother and a lost slipper?
What is Cinderella?
Ilene Woods voiced and sang Cinderella and beat 309 other girls to get the part.
What red bean, shaped like a human organ, is used to make beans and rice?
What is Kidney?
The bean is also used in three-bean salad.
What nine-letter word for the movie industry stands at 4059 Mt. Lee Drive (on Mount Lee), [missing word], California, 90068?
What is Hollywood.
The illuminated sign was built in 1923 as an advertisement for a pricey real estate development named Hollywoodland. After being renovated twice, the sign was rebuilt in 1978. It was refurbished in 2005 and received a significant overhaul in 2009. In 2010, Hugh Hefner set up a trust to maintain the land.
On what prison island near San Francisco was the first lighthouse on the West Coast built?
What is Alcatraz.
It was constructed in 1854, long before the prison was erected in 1933.
What is the term for the white ball on a billiard table?
What is cue ball?
The cue ball is struck with the cue stick to knock the other balls into the pockets on the table. In the early days of billiards, the balls were shoved rather than hit with wooden sticks called maces
What 1985 murder mystery film stars Eileen Brennan as Mrs. Peacock, Christopher Lloyd as Professor Plum, and Martin Mull as Colonel Mustard, and is based on a popular board game by the same name?
What is Clue?
The movie was also a stage production. The stage version had three different endings.
What bean is spelled the same as the capital of Peru but pronounced differently?
What is Lima?
The beans have been grown in Peru for 7,000 years and are exported around the world.
What fictional sleuth lives at 221B Baker Street, London, England?
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
He is the only fictional character who has been awarded with an honorary fellowship. In 2002, he was honored by the Royal Society of Chemistry for solving a crime using chemistry.
The Frying Pan Lighthouse (or Tower) was a former lighthouse and drilling rig in South Carolina. It was converted into what type of tourist accommodation?
What is a bed and breakfast?
The lighthouse is 30 miles off the coast of North Carolina and guests arrive by chartered helicopter. Today, it’s been adopted by a nonprofit organization that is continuing to restore and preserve it.
What does a fruit have that a vegetable does not?
What are seeds.
Botanically, vegetables grow from roots, leaves, or stems. In comparison, fruits develop from the ovary of a flowering plant. Therefore, from a scientific standpoint, avocados and pumpkins are fruits because they bear seeds.
What 1954 film stars Humphrey Bogart as a playboy and Audrey Hepburn as an “ugly duckling” who grows into a swan and falls for him?
What is Sabrina?
A romance began on the set between Hepburn and another costar, William Holden, but Hepburn broke it off when she learned he couldn’t have children
What bean-like pea comes in a flat pod and is frequently used in Chinese dishes?
What are Snow peas?
The pod is flat but otherwise looks like a green bean pod. The pod is also edible.
What “Birthplace of America” and home of the Liberty Bell will you find at 520 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
What is the Independence Hall?
The Declaration of Independence and Constitution were both signed in Independence Hall. It was once the Pennsylvania State House.
For what canal in Egypt was the Statue of Liberty originally conceived to serve as a lighthouse?
What is Suez?
It was originally conceived as a robe-clad Egyptian woman.
What plumbing company used the line “away go troubles down the drain” in its advertisement?
What is Roto-Rooter?
What 1954 film stars Frank Sinatra as John Baron, a hired presidential assassin who holds the Benson family hostage?
What is Suddenly?
Rumor has it that Lee Harvey Oswald watched the film the day before the John F. Kennedy assassination.
What beans could be nicknamed the “aye, aye” beans and are also called Boston beans?
What are Navy beans?
These beans are around the size of peas, and they were once a staple of the U.S. Navy.
What church is found in Manger Square, Bethlehem, West Bank?
What is the Church of the Nativity?
It is built on the site of Jesus’ birth.
Have U.S. lighthouses been automated?
Yes.
They have been automated for at least 30 years.
Canada’s national symbol is a leaf from what tree?
What is the maple?
In 1836, the Québec City newspaper Le Canadien suggested that the maple leaf be named Canada’s official symbol.