Apples
Art and Artists
Nobel Prizes in Literature
Rock and Roll Pioneers
Name that Dice Game
Book Adaptations
Potpourri
100
Apples are a member of this flower family
What is Rose?
100
This painting by Edvard Munch was stolen from the National Gallery in Oslo in 1994 and held to ransom for $1 million.
What is The Scream?
100
in 2016, this folk singer and songwriter won the Nobel Prize in in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” .
Who is Bob Dylan?
100
Eddie Cochran was a rock pioneer who influenced many musicians before his tragic death in 1960, at the age of 21. Paul McCartney performed one of Cochran's songs to impress ___________, whos musical act he hoped to join.
Who is John Lennon of the Quarrymen (later named the Beatles)?
100
The objective of this dice game is to score points by rolling five dice to make certain combinations that resemble poker hands. You yell out the name of the game when you get 5 of a kind.
What is Yahtzee?
100
Nights in Rodanthe is a film starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, based on the eponymous novel by this author of The Notebook.
Who is Nicholas Sparks?
100
This Hungarian performer, born to Jewish parents on Feb 6, 1917, became a Hollywood actress, along with her sister Ava, appearing in many TV shows and 50 films.
Who is Zsa Zsa Gabor?
200
Apple trees may bear multiple varieties of apple, or even pear, thanks to this ancient technology for joining parts of live trees.
What is grafting?
200
Born in 1904, this famous surrealist famous Surrealist painted the artwork "The Persistence of Memory." featuring melting clocks.
Who is Salvador Dali?
200
This author won in 1954 “for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style”
Who is Ernest Hemingway?
200
In 1955 Wanda Jackson toured with this Mississippi-born hit-maker, who urged her to sing in the rockabilly style. Good advice, it seems, since her hit songs "Fujiyama Mama" and "Let's Have a Party" earned her the nickname Queen of Rockabilly.
Who is Elvis Presley?
200
This dice game was introduced in 1972; players try to find as many words as they can from a grid of lettered (not numbered) dice
What is Boggle?
200
Hugo is a 2011 film set is the Montparnasse train station of 1930s Paris, based on Brian Selznick's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret. It is the first 3-D film by director, __________ , famous for such gritty films as Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and Killers of the Flower Moon.
Who is Martin Scorsese?
200
The word HAPPY comes to English from Old _________ (the language spoken in present-day Sweden and Denmark) as well as RAGTAG, THRIFT, AND AWKWARD.
What is Norse?
300
The science of growing apples is called this, named for the French word for apples.
What is a pomology?
300
This famous painting by Grant Wood depicts a farmer and his daughter. He based them on his sister and his dentist.
What is American Gothic?
300
In 1962, this Californian won his Nobel “for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception” which is on display on The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden and Of Mice and Men.
Who is John Steinbeck?
300
Gospel music heavily influenced rock'n'roll, especially after Sister Rosetta Tharpe (The Godmother of Rock & Roll) introduced the electrified version of this instrument into her performances.
What is the guitar?
300
This is a dice game, often seen at casinos, in which players place wagers on the outcome of the roll, or a series of rolls, of a pair of dice. Getting a 7 on the first roll is good. on any subsequent roll it is very very bad
What is Craps?
300
Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar in 1992, A __________ Runs Through It tells the story of two Montana Brothers around the time of WWI. Adapted from Norman Maclean's 1976 novella, the film was directed by Robert Redford.
What is River?
300
Ben and Jerry made a flavor in tribute of this British comedy troupe known for films like The Life of Brian and sketches that claim "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. The packaging features a holy grail.
What is Monty Python?
400
"Chop down the apple trees!" was the cry of activists who wished for moral strength and temperance during the _______________ era in the US.
What is prohibition?
400
Named for this goddess, the (blank) of Willendorf is of the best known sculptures from pre-historic times is a small figurine of a very voluptuous female. She's about 4 inches tall and a symbol of fertility.
Who is Venus?
400
This author of Beloved and The Bluest Eye won the Nobel in 1993, described as: “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”
Who is Toni Morrison?
400
Before going solo, Jimi Hendrix was touring guitarist for this rock pioneer famous for Tutti Frutti and Good Golly Miss Molly.
Who is Little Richard?
400
Archaeological evidence shows that the earliest variations of this dice game originated in ancient Iran and Mesopotamia, dating back approximately 4,500–5,000 years.
What is Backgammon?
400
Elia Kazan directed this 1955 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel East of _________ , which tells the Old Testament story of the first case of sibling rivalry. Starring James Dean.
What is Eden?
400
This is the first man's name mentioned in Paul Simon's song, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. To be fair, the song really only mentions 5 ways to leave your lover. Rude!
Who is Jack?
500
In Greek myth, the goddess of discord, Eris, inscribed an apple with "For the most beautiful" among a group of haughty wedding guests. The subsequent beauty contest set in motion the __________ war, which didn't end until a gift horse came along.
What is Trojan?
500
'Nighthawks' is a famous 1942 painting which portrays four people in a downtown diner late at night, as viewed through the diner's large glass window.
Who is Edward Hopper?
500
This Colombian writer penned 100 Years of Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera, and won his Nobel in 1982 “for his novels and short stories, in which the fantastic and the realistic are combined in a richly composed world of imagination, reflecting a continent's life and conflicts.”
Who is Gabriel Garcia Marquez?
500
This rock pioneer's hit single "Johnny B. Goode," has one of the most recognizable guitar riffs in music history. Stephen King was such a fan that most of the chapters in Christine started out with lyrics to his songs.
Who is Chuck Berry?
500
This Z game is named for a Tanzanian archipelago off the coast of East Africa. In it, players aim to roll the highest-scoring combination and avoid being the round’s lowest scorer.
What is Zanzibar?
500
Adaptation, a surreal film from 2002, was based on the book The ___________ Thief by Susan Orleans. It is about the quirky people who quest for a rare flowering plant which grows wild in Florida.
What is Orchid?
500
A CharlieCard is a scannable card used to get on the mass transit options in this city, named for the main river that passes through.
What is Boston?