Birds of Prey
General Science
Agriculture
Books that Make You Cry
Do-Gooders
Comedy Films
Potpourri
100
This sense in birds of prey is about five to six times better than it is humans. They have a million photoreceptors per mm where humans have about 200,000.
What is eyesight?
100
Castor and Pollux are the primary stars in this twin constellation.
What is Gemini?
100
This stalk-y spring vegetable is considered an aphrodisiac in the Ayurveda medical tradition.
What is asparagus?
100
This book by John Steinbeck, published in 1937, is about Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie. They are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California.
What is Of Mice and Men?
100
Her famously philanthropic contributions include her Imagination Library, which gives children in her home county 1 book each month until they begin kindergarten. She also gives scholarships to anyone who works at her theme park who wants to further their education and donated $1 million to early COVID efforts.
Who is Dolly Parton?
100
Starring Peter Sellers, this film franchise began in 1963, as an inept inspector named Jacques Clouseau who searches for the titular gem across 11 films.
What is the Pink Panther?
100
This is the only NFL team with a plant for a logo
Who are the New Orleans Saints?
200
From the Latin word for "To seize or plunder:" this is the umbrella term for all birds of prey.
What is RAPTOR?
200
This inorganic molecule is produced by lightning. We've been hearing about it since the 1980s when scientists realized our use of aerosols was causing a hole in the earth's layer of it.
What is Ozone?
200
This country is East Africa is the largest producer of vanilla.
What is Madagascar?
200
Written by Mitch Albom in 1997, this book focuses on his weekly meetings with his former sociology professor as he dies of ALS.
What is Tuesdays with Morrie?
200
This famous singer and composer founded his AIDS foundation in 1986, an organization that has raised over $600 million to support HIV-related programs in 55 countries.
Who is Elton John?
200
In this 1950 film James Stewart plays Elwood P. Dowd and his co-star is a 6 foot 3.5 inch tall invisible pooka.
What is Harvey?
200
She was the first woman to appear to on the cover of Rolling Stone
Who is Tina Turner?
300
More flexible than other birds of prey, these have 14 vertebrae in their neck compared to the seven that we humans have. This affords them the flexibility to rotate their heads as much as 270 degrees.
What are owls?
300
Due to its high contrast and saturation, and the way our cones (light-sensitive cells in the retina) respond to it, this is the color we see first.
What is yellow?
300
Each year for the State Fair, Minnesota's "Princess Kay of the Milky Way" has her likeness sculptured in this agricultural product.
What is Butter?
300
This memoir written by Frank McCourt from 1996 focuses on his brief time in Brooklyn as well as his childhood in Limerick, Ireland; it also includes his struggles with poverty and his father's alcoholism.
What is Angela's Ashes?
300
Until his recent passing at the age of 100, this former president could be seen helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity all over his home state of Georgia.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
300
In the movie, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the cast members use this item to simulate horse hoofbeats.
What are coconut shells?
300
This is the only singular word in the English word with 3 consecutive repeated letters
What is BOOKKEEPER?
400
These beach nuisances are also considered birds of prey, as they hunt small animals and catch and kill them with their beaks.
What are seagulls?
400
These two primate species are the closest living relatives to humans.
What are chimps and bonobos?
400
At the end of the song, The Farmer in the Dell, this food item "stands alone".
What is the cheese?
400
Written in 1962, this book by Ken Kesey is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, telling the story of patient Randall P McMurphy and the frightening Nurse Ratched.
What is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?
400
This handsome actor founded his own food brand, the proceeds of which go to groups like Serious Fun, a camp for children with serious illnesses and the Oyate Teca project that helps provide healthy foods for indigenous communities . The company has donated $600 million dollars since its beginnings in 1982.
Who is Paul Newman?
400
This actress plays a socialite turned soldier in the 1980 film, Private Benjamin
Who is Goldie Hawn?
400
1 in 18 people have polythelia, which is this.
What is a third nipple?
500
The smallest species of falcon is the kestrel named after this archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, off of east Africa.
What are the Seychelles?
500
This horseshoe shaped neck bone is the only bone in the human body that isn’t attached to another bone.
What is the hyoid bone?
500
Famously, Reinheitsgebot is the series of rules and regulations limiting the ingredients of beer in Germany and former states of the Holy Roman Empire. This set of rules states that these are the only 3 acceptable ingredients in beer.
What are barley, hops and water?
500
Written by Alice Walker in 1982, this Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award is about Celie, who has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and abused by her own family.
What is The Color Purple?
500
The leader singer of this 1980s hair band has used his fame to help those around him. He started the JBJ Soul Kitchen, with 4 locations in his home state of New Jersey. No prices on the menu, guests can pay what they like but no one is turned away because they can't pay.
Who is Jon Bon Jovi?
500
According to Frank Drebin from ‘The Naked Gun,’ ‘You take a risk getting up the morning, crossing the street or’ doing this.
What is Sticking your face in a fan?
500
This famous artist designed the Chupa Chups logo in 1969.
Who is Salvador Dali?