Pasta Shapes
Olympic Fun Facts
Elizabeths, all Types
I Wanna Be a Paperback Writer
Mathy Things
Dolls and Toys
Foreign Phrases we Use in English
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Farfalle pasta is shaped like this tiny bit of formal neckwear.
What is a bowtie?
100
The first Winter Olympics were held here in 1924, the same country they're being held right now.
What is France?
100
Actress Ruth Elizabeth Davis was the first female lifeguard in Ogunquit and had a house on Cape Elizabeth. She was famous for her eyes and was known by this diminutive of her middle name.
Who is Bette Davis?
100
The Caldecott Medal, the Geisel Award and the Charlotte Huck Award are all given to writers who write for this specific group.
Who are children?
100
Obelus is the name for the mathematical symbol that has a horizontal line with a dot above and a dot below it. We use it to symbolize this mathematic operation.
What is Division?
100
For a short time, Barbie broke up with this guy and dated a handsome Australian surfer named Blaine.
Who is Ken?
100
This French term is used in English to mean radically new or original. It's original usage was in reference to the part of the army that went ahead of the rest of the troops.
What is Avant-Garde?
200
Orecchiette pasta is shaped like this body part (not necessarily like the human version) gets its name from Auris, the Latin root, where we get words like audio.
What is the ear?
200
This Roman emperor, who they say fiddled while Rome burned, declared himself the winner of an Olympic chariot race...even though he fell out of his chariot.
Who is Nero?
200
This famous Elizabeth was an upholsterer's apprentice whose first marriage lead to her expulsion from her Quaker congregation. She produced uniforms and tents for the continental forces and stories circulated for centuries that she was commissioned by the founding fathers to create the new nation's first flag.
Who is Betsy Ross?
200
"Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus," translated as "Never Tickle A Sleeping Dragon," is the official motto for Hogwarts Academy in this book series by JK Rowling.
What is the Harry Potter series?
200
This is the ten-letter term for the longest side on a right triangle.
What is the hypotenuse?
200
The National Toy Hall of Fame inducted this toy in 2003, saying that it "naturally inspires water play and soothes youngsters’ fears of water." Its name is a bit of a misnomer, as it's more commonly made from vinyl.
200
This German word literally translates to ghostly double, often used to mean evil twin or your eerily non-biologically related look-alike out in the real world.
What is Doppelganger?
300
This is the Italian term for pasta cooked until it is firm to the bite.
What is Al Dente?
300
This short legged, long bodied German hounddog breed was the first Olympic mascot, in the Munich games in 1972. His name was Waldi.
What is the Dachshund?
300
This character began life in the play Pygmalion in 1913. She was a Cockney flower seller, whom a professor decides to turn into a "fair lady".
Who is Eliza Doolittle?
300
Pamela Lyndon Travers wrote 8 books about this magical nanny who sweeps into the Banks home on Cherry Tree Lane and takes charge of their children.
Who is Mary Poppins?
300
This eponymous diagram is used to show the logical relation between sets of items, using circles that overlap.
What is a Venn Diagram?
300
Weebles wobble, but they don't do this.
What is fall down?
300
This fabulous Yiddish word is used to show audacity, often in a humorous way.
What is Chutzpah?
400
This is a pillowy shaped pasta, with crimped edges, stuffed with cheese, meat or vegetables
What is ravioli?
400
Famed activist and boxer Muhammad Ali lit the Olympic torch in 1996, hosted in this southern city.
400
This character in Louisa May Alcott's book, Little Women, is the 3rd daughter of the March family, the one who initially survived scarlet fever but eventually succumbed to the damage it did to her heart.
Who is Beth March?
400
SE Hinton was only 16 when she started writing this, her first and most popular novel, about class struggle in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At the pinnacle of the main conflict in the book, main characters Johnny and Ponyboy go out to the country in hiding, and they find themselves in the silence, beauty, and calm that they do not have at home.
What is the Outsiders
400
According to 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' created by Douglas Adams, this number is the answer to the "Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe and Everything." Its also the number of dots on a pair of 6-sided dice.
What is 42?
400
This doll/toy is a large, gel-filled action figure that was first introduced in 1976 by Kenner. He's got a latex outer shell and is filled with a viscous corn syrup that can maintain its shape briefly before returning to its original shape.
Who is Stretch Armstrong?
400
Borrowed from Sanskrit, this 5 letter word is used here to show that what goes around comes back around; your actions affect your fate.
What is Karma?
500
in 1957, the BBC did a pasta-related April Fool's Day prank, saying that pasta grew from this source.
What are trees?
500
This is the other name for the racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, often cleverly called table tennis. Either individually or in teams of two, players take alternating turns returning a light, hollow ball over the table's net. It made its Olympics debut in 1988
What is ping pong?
500
This Elizabeth was married to the 38th President of the United States. She helped to raise breast cancer awareness after a 1974 mastectomy and was very public about her own addiction issues before opening a center to help others.
Who is Betty Ford?
500
This character, created by Beatrix Potter, wears a blue coat and has sisters named Floppsy, Moppsy and Cottontail.
Who is Peter Rabbit?
500
It wasn't until 2016 that Tim Berners-Lee won the Association for Computing Machinery's top "Nobel-level" award, named for this British mathematician and computer scientist who invented the Enigma Machine. Thanks, homophobia!
Who is Alan Turing?
500
Right foot, red. This stocking-feet game included a vinyl sheet with 24 circles and a spinner.
What is Twister?
500
From Italian, we get this word for images or lettering on public walls.
What is Graffiti?