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Potpourri
100
In 1513, while searching for the Fountain of Youth, Ponce de Leon discovered and named this place that means "land of flowers."
What is Florida?
100
After a movie in 1973, requests for the Catholic church to perform this ritual spiked to 5 times what they had been the decade before.
What are Exorcisms?
100
Tom and Jerry are these types of animals
What is a cat and a mouse? (Jerry is the mouse)
100
The statue awarded after every Super Bowl is named after this man who coached the first team to win the Super Bowl.
Who is Vince Lombardi?
100
the first commercially successful one of these made its debut in 1949. It used a 45 rpm record player for your outgoing message, and a wire recorder to save and playback incoming messages.
What is an answering machine?
100
This is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger that they can use to catch grubs and larvae out of tree trunks. It is the world's largest nocturnal primate as well as the way you might say Yes if you worked on a ship.
What is Aye-Aye?
100
A common palindrome begins "A Man, A Plan, A Canal" and ends with this country name.
What is Panama?
200
Nellie Bly, an American journalist, accepted a challenge to go around the world in fewer than 80 days, a fictional record set forth by this French novelist.
Who is Jules Verne?
200
Beelzebub is often depicted as a monstrous demonic insect and shares this title with a classic novel written by William Golding.
What is Lord of the Flies?
200
This remarkable strong toddler was the adopted son of Barney and Betty Rubble.
Who is Bam-Bam?
200
This East Coast team won the very first NBA game in 1946.
Who are the NY Knicks?
200
In 1878, New Haven, Connecticut, just two years after a significant invention, was the first city in the world to publish a book of these.
What are phone numbers?
200
This clever quadruped has rectangular pupils (to provide a wide field of vision). One of them, named Dolly, was the first cloned adult mammal.
What is a sheep?
200
Jeggings are a clothing item that is a combination of and portmanteau for these two other clothing items.
What are jeans and leggings?
300
In about 1271, this explorer traveled to and introduced China (at the time called Cathay) to Europeans. He, his father and his uncle spent 20 years at the court of Kublai Khan.
Who is Marco Polo?
300
According to Jewish tradition, before Eve, there was this woman. She refused to submit to Adam, abandoned paradise and birthed demons.
Who is Lilith?
300
Top Cat's friends call him by this nickname.
What is T.C.?
300
This ball sport, predominantly played by women at the higher levels, became an Olympic sport in 1996.
What is softball?
300
This portable music player was introduced by Sony in 1979. They stopped producing the cassette tape version in 2010.
What is a Walkman?
300
Commonly called reindeer, this quadruped has been domesticated for over 5000 years by peoples from the northern circumpolar region. They are ruminants (i.e. cud chewers) and they feed on lichens and mosses in winter.
What are Caribou?
300
A group of crows is called a murder. The collective noun for this fellow corvid is called an Unkindness.
What are ravens?
400
in 1960, Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard and Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh were hoping to find the bottom of the sea and were the first to see this location, the deepest known point on Earth.
What is Mariana Trench?
400
As told by Marlowe and Goethe, Doctor Faust is tormented by this demon and servant of the Devil.
Who is Mephistopheles?
400
This inept Royal Canadian Mountie must constantly save Nell, his lady, from the grip of villain Snidely Whiplash.
Who is Dudley Do-Right?
400
This team won the first ever T-20 World Cup in Cricket
What is India?
400
in 1986, Americans spend 4.4 million dollars renting movies to be played on one of these. In 2016, 20 years after DVDs were introduced, they were phased out.
What are VCRs?
400
It is estimated that this quadruped provides up to 20-30% of the farm power in countries including Thailand and Laos; they are great in wet muddy areas like paddy fields. They are the largest member of the bovine family.
What is the Water Buffalo?
400
According to popular legend, this pasta shape was modeled after Venus' belly button.
What is tortellini?
500
In 1927, Lindbergh made his solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic ocean. Six years earlier in 1919, these two men made the jump together, from Newfoundland to Ireland.
Who are John Alcock and Arthur Brown?
500
Attend the tale of this character created by Christopher Bond, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.
Who is Sweeney Todd?
500
This light pink anthropomorphic puma wore a bow tie and shirt-cuffs. His love for drama brought phrases like "Heavens to Murgatroyd" and "Exit, stage left" into the national consciousness.
Who is Snagglepuss?
500
Starting in 1952, it became a tradition to throw this cephalopod onto the ice during each Detroit Red Wings play off game.
What is an octopus?
500
Once upon a time, we used this rotating card file to sort phone numbers and addresses. Its name is a portmanteau for what it holds and how it moves.
What is a rolodex?
500
There are three types of quadrupeds -- Bbligate, who have to walk on all fours at all times; Facultative, who can switch from two to four feet as needed and the third kind, known to walk on their hind feet as well as this flat part of their front limbs
What are knuckles?
500
According to legend, Bugs Bunny was born in a warren under this field where the Brooklyn Dodgers played from 1913-1957.
What is Ebbets Field?