And They're Off
The Oscar Goes To
Accounting On You
It's All Relative
Spike!
100
A mixed alcoholic drink, or cocktail, consisting primarily of bourbon, sugar, water, crushed or shaved ice, and fresh mint. As a bourbon-based cocktail, it is associated with the American South and the cuisine of the Southern United States in general, and the Kentucky Derby in particular.
Mint Julep
100
A total of 3,140 Oscars have been awarded since the inception of the Academy Awards in 1929, but there has been these many events overall
95
100
Accountants have controlled the ballots for this event since 1935. A team of nine CPAs spends up to 1,700 hours prior to the big night counting the ballots in each category by hand
Oscars (Academy Awards)
100
Lisa Kudrow first sang this song on the second season of “Friends,” in an episode entitled “The One With the Baby on the Bus”
Smelly Cat
100
A successful hit that results in an immediate point
Kill
200
13 horses have won the Triple Crown: Sir Barton (1919), Count Fleet (1943), Assault (1946), Secretariat (1973), and this most recent winner in 2018
Justify
200
It's known as an Oscar. No one really knows why, but there's a theory that a librarian and later executive director for the academy noted that the statuette resembled her uncle named Oscar. The nickname wasn't officially associated with the trophy until 1939.
Academy Award of Merit
200
Total Liabilities + Total Equity =
Total Assets
200
This guest star was on the show because of a bet made with Matthew Perry
Bruce Willis
200
A back-row defensive specialist
Libero
300
The track officially opened on May 17, 1875, and the first Derby (one of four races at the track that day) was won by this horse
Aristides
300
Meryl Streep has been nominated for a record 21 Academy Awards, winning three Best Actress Oscars. Her most recent win was for this 2011 movie
The Iron Lady
300
There are four types of accounting
Corporate accounting, Forensic accounting, Public accounting, and Government accounting.
300
An American actor best known for his portrayal of Gunther on the NBC sitcom Friends who just recently passed
James Michael Tyler
300
When a serve hits the top of the net and rolls onto the other side, resulting in a point
Let
400
All thoroughbred racehorses have the same birthday. No matter what day a horse was born on during the year, racehorse age is marked on this day in order to make it easier to keep track of bloodlines
New Years Day (January 1)
400
He has the most Oscar wins of all time. In all, he has won 22 competitive Oscars and 3 honorary ones, out of a total of 59 nominations. He was nominated for one Oscar every year between 1942 and 1963.
Walt Disney
400
This state gave the first Certified Public Accountant (CPA) examination in 1896
New York
400
On September 22, 1994, Friends made its NBC debut and forever changed the face of American sitcoms, co-written by
Marta Kauffman and David Crane
400
First played in 1895, Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules, originally called this name
Mintonette
500
She was the first woman jockey to ever ride in the Derby; there has yet to be a female winner, but Shelley Riley came the closest in 1992 when she came in second.
Diane Crump
500
The infamously selective British-Irish actor only made 12 movies after landing his first Best Actor Oscar for ‘My Left Foot’ in 1990, and he earned another five nominations from those, winning twice more, for ‘There Will Be Blood’ (2007) and ‘Lincoln’ (2012). He remains the only actor in history to have earned three Best Actor Academy Awards
Daniel Day-Lewis
500
The father of modern accounting is an Italian, who in 1494 first described the system of double-entry bookkeeping used by Venetian merchants in his Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita.
Luca Pacioli
500
Chandler orders this when Joey asks if he wants food
A three piece, coleslaw, beans, and a Coke ahhh ah ahh diet Coke
500
A volleyball game usually takes between 60 and 90 minutes, which includes 3 sets being played, but in Kingston, North Carolina, this game lasted the longest in history
75 hours 30 minutes