Mythical Creatures
State Capitals
Let Them Eat Cake
Basketball Teams
Hodge podge
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This magical animal is a horse with a horn on its forehead
Unicorn
Legends tell of the unicorn’s purifying of poisoned waters with its horn so that other animals may drink.
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California
Sacramento
Sacramento, Spanish for ''sacrament'', is known for its evolving contemporary culture, and is dubbed the most "hipster city" in California. Also, in 2002, the Harvard University Civil Rights Project conducted for Time magazine ranked Sacramento as "America's Most Diverse City".
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This red cake is almost always topped with cream cheese frosting
Red Velvet Cake
A resurgence in the popularity of this cake is attributed by some to the 1989 film Steel Magnolias, which included a red velvet groom's cake made in the shape of an armadillo.
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Los Angeles
Lakers
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Who was Elvis Presley’s wife?
Priscilla Presley.
Despite their divorce in 1973, Elvis and Priscilla remained close until his death in 1977. As chairwoman and president of Elvis Presley Enterprises, she has helped make Graceland a multimillion-dollar tourist attraction.
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This creature is a mythical reptile that breathes fire
Dragon
Dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, four-legged, and capable of breathing fire. Dragons in eastern cultures are usually depicted as wingless, four-legged, serpentine creatures with above-average intelligence.
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Ohio
Columbus
The community has helped promote the influence Christopher Columbus had in drawing European attention to the Americas. The Italian explorer, erroneously credited with the lands' discovery, has been posthumously criticized by historians for initiating colonization and for abuse of the native people.
200
This Mexican cake is made with three kinds of milk
Tres Leche Cake
The cake is soaked in three kinds of milk: evaporated milk, condensed milk, and heavy cream.
200
Boston
Celtics
200
What Color Eyes Do Most Humans Have?
Brown
The color comes from a brown pigment called melanin. It’s the same pigment that causes skin color. Different eye colors are caused by different amounts of pigment.
300
This mythical ocean creature is half woman and half fish
Mermaid
Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks, and drownings.
The male equivalent of the mermaid is the merman. Although traditions about and sightings of mermen are less common than those of mermaids, they are generally assumed to co-exist with their female counterparts. The male and the female collectively are sometimes referred to as merfolk or merpeople.
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Tennessee
Nashville
Perhaps the biggest factor in drawing visitors to Nashville is its association with country music, in which the Nashville sound played a role. Many visitors to Nashville attend live performances of the Grand Ole Opry, the world's longest-running live radio show. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is another major attraction relating to the popularity of country music.
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This cake is baked upside down with tropical fruit
Pineapple upside-down cake
In the United States, pineapple upside down cakes became popular in the mid 1920's after Dole Pineapple Company sponsored a contest for pineapple recipes. They received over 2,500 various submissions for the inverted pineapple cake and ran an advertisement about it, which increased the cake's popularity
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Oakland
Warriors
300
This number makes for an unlucky Friday
Friday the 13th
This date occurs between one and three times each year. The fear of Friday the 13th in the population is so pervasive that it has even led airline fares to dip on that date, and some airlines don’t have a row 13 on their planes.
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This mythical creature is horse with wings
Pegasus
According to early myths, everywhere the winged horse struck his hoof to the earth, an inspiring water spring burst forth.
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Georgia
Atlanta
Atlanta was originally founded as the terminus of a major state-sponsored railroad, but it soon became the convergence point among several railroads, spurring its rapid growth. One of those railroads included the Western and Atlantic Railroad, from which the name “Atlanta” is derived, signifying the city's growing reputation as a major hub of transportation.
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This sponge cake is very light and fluffy and has a "heavenly" name
Angel food cake
Angel food cake requires egg whites whipped until they are stiff. Cream of tartar is added to the mixture to stabilize the egg whites. Remaining ingredients are gently folded into the egg white mixture.
400
Chicago
Bulls
400
What is the biggest state in the U.S.
What is Texas?
Dr. Pepper originally hails from Texas. Charles Alderton invented Dr. Pepper in Waco, Texas in 1885.
500
These tiny mythical creatures look like tiny women with wings
Fairies
Some depictions of fairies show them with footwear, others as barefoot. Wings, while common in Victorian and later artworks, are rare in folklore; fairies flew by means of magic, sometimes perched on ragwort stems or the backs of birds. Modern illustrations often include dragonfly or butterfly wings.
500
Arizona
Phoenix
Phoenix was settled in 1867 as an agricultural community. Its canal system led to a thriving farming community with the original settlers' crops remaining important parts of the Phoenix economy for decades, such as alfalfa, cotton, citrus, and hay. Cotton, cattle, citrus, climate, and copper were known locally as the "Five C's" anchoring Phoenix's economy.
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This delicious cake features a vegetable as its main ingredient
Carrot cake
Many food historians believe carrot cake originated from carrot puddings eaten by Europeans in the Middle Ages, when sugar and sweeteners were expensive and many people used carrots as a substitute for sugar.
500
Miami
Heat
500
Which famous singer of the 40s and 50s had the nickname 'Ol Blue Eyes'?
Frank Sinatra