Dinosaurs
This is the word for a person who studies dinosaurs.
What is a paleontologist?
This gem, the hardest on the Moh's Scale, is the birthstone for April.
What is the diamond?
This is James Bond's favorite cocktail; shaken, not stirred. But by shaking it instead of using a special ice spoon, you chip the ice and it melts faster, giving you watered down gin with a touch of vermouth.
What is a martini?
This classic board game was originally called The Landlord's Game and was created by Elizabeth Magie to show how dangerous property ownership was for society.
What is Monopoly?
This career word, akin to an accountant, is the only word to contain 3 consecutive repeated letters.
What is BOOKKEEPER? (or BOOKKEEPING)
In this 1993 blockbuster, based on a book by Michael Crichton, there are only 15 minutes of dinosaur footage.
What is Jurassic Park?
Today, we celebrate this item commonly associated with Mexican culture. It is a is a container, often made of papier-mâché, pottery, or cloth, that is decorated, filled with candy, and then broken as part of a celebration.
What is the Pinata?
The Cape Cod is a mixed drink made of these two ingredients (along with a twist of lime)
What are vodka and cranberry?
In the game of Scrabble, these two tiles have the highest number of points.
What are Q and Z?
Triskaidekaphobia means having an irrational fear of this sometimes unlucky number
What is 13?
The word DINOSAUR comes from this language and translates into "terrible lizard." Not terrible like mean, just terrible live very large.
What is Greek?
These are the two astrological signs for the month of April.
What are Aries and Taurus?
This stormy French Quarter cocktail dates back to World War II; it was created with rum and fruit juices thanks to a war-time whisky shortage. It comes in its own eponymous glass, named for the shape of a lamp and not so much for Katrina or her similar storms.
What is a Hurricane?
What is Twister?
This word is is pronounced the same, even if you remove all the letters but the first one.
What is Queue?
This western state, known for its proximity to the Rocky Mountains and having a city that is exactly 5280 feet above sea level received the state nickname, the Stegosaurus State. The first ever Stegosaurus skeleton was found there.
What is Colorado?
This holiday, celebrated annually on April 22, is a day to honor the achievement of the modern environmental movement and raise awareness of protecting the planet.
What is Earth Day?
All you need are mint, sugar, crushed ice and bourbon to make this cocktail which became the official cocktail of the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs in the 1930s, to celebrate the end of Prohibition.
What is the Mint Julep?
A Dead-Man's hand is so called because this western folk hero, lawman, actor and gun fighter was said to be holding it when he was shot in the back of the head in Deadwood, South Dakota. The hand is two pairs, aces and eights, all black.
Who is Wild Bill Hickok?
This is the Latin word for ‘elsewhere’ which is why we use it to mean that the person under suspicion was somewhere else when the crime was committed.
What is alibi?
Most people think of dinosaurs as solely scaley, lizard-like creatures, but about half of them actually were covered in these, just like their current bird descendants.
What are feathers?
On April 14, 1912, this famous ship hit an iceberg and sank on her first and only voyage.
What is the Titanic?
Considered the first body of laws in human history, the “code of Hammurabi” was comprehensive, to say the least. Virtually every aspect of society was touched upon, including very specific rules about this beverage. For instance, Hammurabi thought that if you tried to sell a bad batch of it, you should be drowned in it.
What is beer?
This wooden tower stacking game gets its name from the Swahili word for Build.
What is Jenga?
A "lemniscate" is a fancy word for this symbol that is used to express something without end.
What is the infinity symbol?