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This Missouri born pop star based a host of her iconic looks on drag queens and is known for speaking out for her own safety and worker’s rights on the red carpet
Who is Chappell Roan
While you may know it as the birthplace of yoga, this 7th largest country in the world also invented chess and the board game snakes and ladders
What is India
He said of the Queen City “when the world ends I want to be in Cincinnati. Because everything that happens comes there ten years later.”
Who is Mark Twain
Kate DiCamillo only won a Newberry honor for Because of Winn-Dixie in 2005. That’s okay though, she won the highest honor the year before for this novel about a very brave mouse.
What is The Tale of Despereaux
Often the first sign of spring, these small purple flowers are delicious when candied. Their leaves are also a nice addition to salads.
What are violets
Unless you get it from this region of France, it’s technically just a Prosecco
What is Champagne
While there are several different varieties available, slang in the American South refers to all sodas as this.
What is Coke
While the Himilayan mountain range crosses multiple countries, these two share custody of it’s most famous peak, Mt. Everest.
What are Tibet and Nepal
With the earnings from his many bestselling memoirs about his family, this hilarious writer bought a beach house on the Emerald Isle in South Carolina. Shortly after, he returned to the house and fed a tumor he had removed to his favorite sea turtle.
Who is David Sedaris
E.L. Konigsburg is one of the few writers who holds two Newberry Awards, one for her novel A View From Saturday and another for this wordy novel about two children who run away to live at the museum
What is From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
This perennial herb is famous for being easy to maintain, it also has a tendency to spread widely where it’s planted, choking out any other potential seeds. Well, at least our Derby Day drinks will be fresh.
What is mint
Pouring the perfect pint of this beloved alcoholic beverage involved holding the glass at a forty-five degree angle for exactly 119.5 seconds. Erin go braugh!
What is Guinness
While he might still miss his cocoa butter kisses, this acid rapper continues to prolifically fund arts programs in his home city of Chicago.
Who is Chance the Rapper
Visionary writer Khaled Hosseini moved from this country when the Soviets invaded. He has since written four critically acclaimed novels about his homeland.
What is Afghanistan
This alumni of the Algonquin Round Table is famous for the evergreen nature of her best quips, one of which was “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
Who is Dorothy Parker?
Madeleine L'Engle clenched the award in 1963 with her novel about a girl named Meg on a fantastical quest for her father who went missing while doing mysterious work for the government
What is A Wrinkle In Time
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Despite the smell, the pine needle taste of gin doesn’t come from an evergreen tree, but from these red berries.
Regardless of what James Bond says, you should always stir a martini. Too much shaking bruises this pine smelling spirit that makes up most of the cocktail.
What is gin
This brand of soda was invented in Michigan in the 1800s and has since enjoyed a cult following among all Midwest ginger enthusiasts.
What is Vernor's
While it is now a popular travel destination, particularly for influencers, when it comes to this chain of islands, only one fifth of them are inhabited.
What are the Maldives
In her memoir Wishful Drinking, she discusses everything from her dysfunctional Hollywood family to the fact that many men in comic book shops casually bring up started masturbating to her.
Who is Carrie Fisher
Katherine Patterson won the award in 1977 for a touching coming of age story dedicated to her son who had recently lost his friend.
What is The Bridge to Terabithia
These soft pink and white flowers can be dried and used to replace ginger in your spice cabinet. They also share a name with a Paul Thomas Anderson film.
What are magnolias
French winemakers spread the rumor that this spirit made you go insane. Not because it did, but because this working man’s beverage was starting to cut into their vineyard profits.
What is absinthe
Upon his death in 2016 it was discovered that this Minnesota born superstar was anonymously donating sizable chunks of his fortune to underserved arts programs in his home state.
Who is Prince
This island nation off the coast of India boasts a variety of natural splendor from tropical beaches and steamy jungles to cool and lush mountain ranges. Not bad for a country only the size of West Virginia
What is Sri Lanka
While reporting on the Scopes/Monkey Trial he wrote of Dayton, Tennessee, "Prayer can accomplish a lot. It can cure diabetes, find lost pocketbooks and retain husbands from beating their wives. But is prayer made any more officious by giving a circus first?”
Who is H.L Menchken
Not only did this 1998 novel get a Newberry award, but it also received dozens of other accolades, a beloved movie adaptation, and a Disney soundtrack. Doesn't sound very unlucky to me Stanley Yelnats.
What is Holes
While the leaves of its small, tropical tree smell like Red Hots, this fragrant and warm spice is actually procured by harvesting the innermost side of its bark.
What is cinnamon
Named after a Manhattan beach surfer, this vodka based cocktail was hailed as the “disco drink” of the 1970s.
What is the Harvey Wallbanger