Botanically Speaking
GO GO GADGET
Music Line Mash ups
National Parks
Food for Thought
100

These popular trees found in tropical and subtropical beach climates have slowly moved northward and are now found naturally in coastal Virginia.

Palm Trees

100

AT&T debuted this at the 1962 World's fair!  So long Rotary!

Touch Tone Phone

100

Oh Give me a home where the buffalo roam but don't forget who's taking you home.  And in whose arms you're gonna be... So darlin save...

Home on the Range and Save the Last Dance for me.

100

This is the only place on earth where Alligators and Crocodiles live side by side.

Everglades National Park

100

This vegetable was originally purple before being bred to be orange in the 17th century.

Carrot

200
This was the first vegetable grown in outer space when NASA sent them up in 1995.

Potatoes

200

The Motorola DynaTAC debuted in 1973 which marked the birth of these....

Cell Phones

200

Take out the papers and the trash or you don't get to put your head on my shoulder 

Yakety Yak (The Coasters).   Put your head on my shoulder (Paul Anka)

200

This National Park is 95% underwater.

Biscayne National Park (Florida)

200

Found in ancient Egyptian tombs, this food item seems to never spoil!  

Honey

300

These vegetables are actually classified as stems and clusters of unopened flower buds.

Broccoli and Cauliflower

300

The Regency TR-1 was released in 1954 and it was the first commercially pocket sized one of these.

Transistor Radios - People could listen to music anywhere! 

300

In a town where I was born lived a man who's love was a burning flame. And it makes the fiery rain. Bound By one desire...

Yellow Submarine and Ring of Fire

300

This state is home to the largest national park

Alaska

300

This vegetable was viewed with suspicion and often deemed poisonous or ornamental in the 17th century.

Tomatoes.    Many Europeans called them Poison apples because aristocrats ate off pewter plates high in lead. it reacted with the acidity of the tomato which caused lead poisoning.

400

Botanically speaking A banana is classified as this....

A berry

400

A kitchen staple invented in 1945 with radar technology and made commercially available in 1947. 

Microwave

400

Too many nights. Too many stars. Too many moons could change your mind but you don't close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips...

"Don't let the Stars get in your eyes" (1953) and "You lost that lovin' feeling (1964)

400

This mountain in Acadia National Park is the first place in the US to see the sunrise.

Cadillac Mountain

400

This ancient civilization is credited with inventing the first recorded form of chewing gum...

Neolithic  Finns (Finland)

500

These three PA natives are neither considered berries or fruits.  They are considered Aggregate accessory fruites. 

Blackberry, Raspberry and Strawberry

500

Pulsar P1 of 1972 was the first of these popular items..

Digital Wristwatch

500

I must take a trip to California and leave my poor sweetheart alone.  Maybe if he has a...gun, will travel, reads the card of man. A knight without armour in a savage land.

How much is that Doggie in the Window - The Ballad of Paladin  (1952)

500

This is the smallest national park at only 192 acres

Gateway Arch National Park (Missouri)

500

Contrary to popular belief German Chocolate cake actually originated from this US City.

Dallas. by a man named Samuel German. 

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