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($100) If you have multiple dogs, this one is the “top dog.”
Answer: What is alpha? Dogs, of course, descend from wolves, who live in family groups where the “alphas” are generally the parents. Listen to your elders, pups!
($100) She was the first person to fly solo across both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Answer: Who is Amelia Earhart? She and her airplane disappeared while flying across the Pacific Ocean in her attempt to circumnavigate the globe. She was never found and was legally declared dead two years after her disappearance.
($100) The U.S. president’s airplane is known as this.
Answer: What is Air Force One? The VC-25, or modified 747, can be refueled in the air and has electromagnetic pulse protection, missile defense systems, encrypted communications, and an operating room.
($100) Traditional Italian cooks boil their pasta to this state, meaning “to the tooth.”
Answer: What is al dente? Pasta boiled until soft and mushy is easier to digest, but al dente pasta has a lower glycemic index and retains more nutrients.
. ($100) In many countries, we honor these people on the second Sunday in May.
Answer: What are mothers? The United States, Canada, and Australia are among the countries that celebrate on the second Sunday. However, in Mexico and parts of Latin America, Mother’s Day is celebrated annually on May 10.
. ($200) This is a U.S. airline.
Answer: What is Delta? When the airline was established, it was a crop-dusting company. In 1928, it was bought and rebranded Delta Air Service, a commercial air carrier serving the Mississippi Delta region. Today, it’s a major international airline with its own oil refinery to produce jet fuel.
($200) She founded the American Red Cross.
Answer: Who is Clara Barton? During the Civil War, Barton was a nurse and an educator. In 1881, she founded the American Red Cross. Barton and Susan B. Anthony were contemporaries and friends.
. ($200) The royal family’s jewels are kept at this tourist attraction under heavy guard.
Answer: What is the Tower of London? In addition to guard details and 100 closed-circuit cameras, the jewels are kept in a bomb-proof glass case.
($200) This is not a named street, but it often accommodates foot and sometimes vehicle traffic.
Answer: What is alley? It permits access to the back of buildings and can keep the street clear of delivery vehicles.
($200) This is one of the two astrological signs for May.
Answer: What is Taurus or Gemini? One of the traits of those born under Taurus is ambition, while those born under Gemini are full of passion.
($400) This is used to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter—a mathematical constant.
Answer: What is pi? It is an irrational number with digits that go on forever, but written out to the fifth decimal it is 3.14159. Pi is also the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet.
($400) This Polish-born French scientist discovered polonium and radium.
Answer: Who is Marie Curie? She won two Nobel Prizes: one solo award in chemistry and one in physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel.
($400) This is the area between North and South Korea.
Answer: What is the DMZ (or demilitarized zone)? It runs along the 38th parallel and is guarded by troops from both sides as well as American troops. Visitors are allowed to place their feet on both sides of the heavily guarded zone.
($400) He is one of the stars of the TV series M*A*S*H.
Answer: Who is Alan Alda? He plays “Hawkeye” Pierce. The show had the most-viewed series finale of all time.
. ($400) People dance around this long pole wrapped with flowers, fabric, and garland on a day named for it.
Answer: What is the maypole? May Day is celebrated on May 1, and the maypole has been in use since the 14th century in Britain.
($600) This is the final round of testing before releasing the product to the public; it is also a “blocker” pharmaceutical.
Answer: What is beta? A beta blocker lowers blood pressure by reducing the heart rate.
($600) This Golden Age Austrian American actress starred with luminaries such as Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy and played a crucial role in World War II due to her technological expertise.
Answer: Who is Hedy Lamarr? During World War II, she and George Antheil received a patent for a secret communications system that allowed messages to change radio frequencies so the enemy could not capture and decode them.
. ($600) This military base in southern Nevada is rumored to house the remains of alien beings. It is commonly known by this name.
Answer: What is Area 51? Its official name is the Nevada Test and Training Range at Groom Lake, and it is where the U-2 spy plane was produced and tested.
$600) This is someone who is unselfish and puts others first.
Answer: What is an altruist? This person’s characteristics are the opposite of an egotist’s.
($600) Hawaii celebrates this welcome gift for visitors on the first day of May.
Answer: What is the lei? Lei Day is a statewide celebration. Each island has its own lei, and removing it in front of the person who gave it to you is considered rude.
($800) These rays have the smallest wavelengths and the most energy on the electromagnetic spectrum.
Answer: What is gamma? Neutron stars, pulsars, and supernova explosions can produce gamma rays.
($800) She was the first female prime minister of India.
Answer: Who is Indira Gandhi? She served from 1966 to 1970 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984.
($800) This 18th-century luxury spa and resort in Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, contains an underground bunker that was once heavily guarded.
Answer: What is the Greenbrier? Built in 1778, the resort became home to the secret bunker in the 1950s intended to house the U.S. Congress in case of a nuclear event. The bunker has been declassified since 1992.
. ($800) This is the literary term for a fable or parable.
Answer: What is allegory? This method of portraying a deeper, complex meaning beyond the surface of the story dates to biblical times. A more recent example of an allegory is J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings series, which portrays good versus evil.
. ($800) This May birthstone captures the splendor of mid-spring nature
($1,000) This is the official Mother’s Day flower. Answer: What is the carnation? White carnations are the most popular. They symbolize the purity of a mother’s love.