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Foundation Facts!
Cincinnati: Queen City
Awards and Accolades
An Album Cover
(Final Jeopardy)
100
This nine-branched candelabrum is lit during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah.

What is a menorah?  (also acceptable: chanukiah or hanukkiah)

100
The Foundation used this computer system to keep track of donors and data before it switched to Blackbaud CRM in 2015-2016.

What was Advance?

100
Cincinnati is widely known as the birthplace of this portly figure, known for being the 27th President of the United States.

Who was William Howard Taft?

100

This robotic French duo took home the "Album of the Year" award at the 56th Annual Grammys with their fourth album, "Random Access Memories."

Who is Daft Punk?

200

Also known as a "Weihnachtsgurke," some say that the tradition of hiding one of these in a Christmas tree originated in Germany.

What is a pickle?

200

The name "bearcat" is frequently also used for this viverrid, native to Asia, despite the animal being neither bear nor cat.

What is a binturong?

200

This employer has around 21,500 workers, making it the largest employer in Cincinnati.

What is the Kroger Company?

200

A 2001 musical version of an earlier movie bearing the same name, this Mel Brooks production bears the distinction of having won the most Tonys (even more than 2016's Hamilton!)

What is The Producers?

300

The earliest known celebrations of this holiday date back to 2000 BC in Mesopotamia.

New Years (though not on January 1!)

300

The University of Cincinnati Foundation was established in this year.

When was 1975?

300
When it was founded in 1788, Cincinnati was originally given this name, now the name of a private country club.

What is Losantiville?

300

This movie, the third in a trilogy, won 11 Oscars in 2003, making it only one of three total movies to have won that many.

What is The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King?

400

The Swahili phrase "matunda ya kwanza" translates, conventionally, into this phrase of bounty:

"first fruits of the harvest" or just "first fruits"

400

This amount was received in FY2017 as an Engineering Gift-in-Kind.

What was $316,000,000?

400

This former department store - Cincinnati's first - is now the site of 96 downtown loft apartments and office space.

What was Shillito's (John Shillito & Co.)?

400

The only individual ever to win the EGOT twice, this Asian American songwriter got his start on Broadway but has since written music for Disney/Pixar movies.

Who is Robert Lopez?

400

This Beatles album was the first of theirs to not feature the band's name - or the title of the album - on the front cover of the album.

What is Abbey Road?

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