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100

The Divine Comedy, a massive narrative poem including sections for Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso andcompleted in 1320, is the best known work of what Italian poet?

Dante

100

Coffee became more popular in America in the 1770s. At the time, many people had stopped drinking tea as a patriotic act. What was the name of the famous protest that inspired them to boycott the beverage?

The Boston Tea Party

100

Grocer Joel Owsley Cheek started a coffee brand in 1892 and soon named the brand after a hotel in Nashville, Tennessee (the brand's largest customer). The brand was the highest-selling coffee in the United States for nearly 100 years and frequently incorporates its "good to the last drop" slogan into its logo. What brand is this?

Maxwell House

100

Which famous Spielberg movie starred Henry Thomas as Elliott and Drew Barrymore as Gertie?

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

100

what is the only bird that can fly backwards?

Hummingbirds

200

Robert Frost, who attended Harvard from 1897 to 1899, famously wrote what poem that ends "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference?"

The Road Not Taken

200

What is the more common two-word name for the coffee brewing device sometimes known as a "plunger pot"?

French Press

200

When it was founded in 1966, the coffee roaster took the last name of the entrepreneur behind it. If you brew up some “Major Dickinson’s Blend” to start your day, which popular brand of java are you drinking?

Peet's

200

Which award-winning Spielberg film features Roy Neary, Veronica Neary, and Barry Guiler connecting with Devil's Tower?

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

200

A human brain operates on about ____ watts.

15

300

H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw were among the first members of an international association of poets, essayists, and novelists known by what three-letter name?

PEN

300

Alternating layers of ladyfingers soaked in a coffee-liqueur combo with mascarpone cheese and chocolate gets you what uplifting Italian dessert?

Tiramisu

300

he American tea company Teavana was purchased by what coffee giant in 2012 for an estimated purchase price of $620 million? Although Teavana's stores were eventually shut down, their products continued to be sold in the stores of the company that bought them.

Starbucks

300

pielberg character Celie Harris suffers incest, assault, racism and poverty, but she is uplifted and strengthened by the strong women around her in which Spielberg movie?

The Color Purple

300

What legume can be used to make dynamite?

Peanuts, Peanut oil can be processed into glycerol, which is a main ingredient to make nitroglycerine, the explosive liquid used in dynamite.

400

Walt Whitman famously described the poetry of what fellow American as "a propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page?"

Edgar Allan Poe

400

What popular caffeinated beverage is the Italian word for coffee with milk?

Latte

400

Restaurant Brands International is a conglomerate whose brands include Burger King, Popeye's Chicken, and what Canadian-based coffee and donuts stores?

Tim Hortons

400

Which 1998 movie directed by Steven Spielberg includes a reading of the Bixby letter, a famous letter of condolence written by Abraham Lincoln to Lydia Bixby who lost her five sons during the American Civil War?

Saving Private Ryan

400

what Animal has a specific alarm call that means "human." 

 Elephants

500

In 1794, William Blake wrote about what powerful animal in a poem, wondering what kind of hand or eye “Dared frame thy fearful symmetry?” It was also the name of the dog on “The Brady Bunch.”

Tiger

500

What portamanteau-d beverage term was initially developed, named, and trademarked by George Howell's Massachusetts coffee shop chain before eventually being acquired by Starbucks in 1994?

Frappuccino

500

Though there were earlier attempts that failed to dissolve fully in coffee, the first truly popular non-dairy creamer was invented by the company Carnation in 1961 under what name, which is still in use today?

Coffee-Mate

500

One of the top five television series of the 2000s according to IMDb.com, what miniseries about an army regiment in Europe during W.W.II was created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, who also acted as executive producers?

Band of Brothers

500

The children of which coffee-loving American president opened the Double R Coffee House in New York City, its success bolstered by the onset of Prohibition two months after opening day?

Theodore Roosevelt

600

Located within the Irish province of Munster, what city in Ireland is also a type of five-line poem which famously follows an AABBA rhyming scheme?  

Limerick

600

According to "The Coffee Song" as made famous by Frank Sinatra, "they've got an awful lot of coffee in" what South American nation?

Brazil

600

Following a 2006 acquisition, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters changed the company's official name. What was the name of this popular brewing-machinery company acquired by the Vermont coffee company?

Keurig

600

In 1991, what classic story did Steven Spielberg give new direction to?

Peter Pan

600

 Owls don't have eyeballs. They have eye what?

Tubes

700

What New England-born poet was famously prolific,  having written nearly 1,800 poems, buthad fewer than a dozen published during her lifetime? Famous poems include "Because I could not stop for Death" and "Tell all the truth but tell it slant."

Emily Dickinson

700

What sweetened dairy product is commonly used to make Vietnamese Iced Coffee?

Condensed Milk

700

Robert Silber, who had previously started a cigarette rolling-paper business, founded what coffee company on a whim after tasting the coffee of a local shop in Vermont?

Green Mountain

700

Which movie of 1993 starring Liam Neeson in the titular role and directed by Steven Spielberg is based on a novel of 1982 by Australian Thomas Keneally?

Schindler's List

700

What is the only U.S. state whose name is typed using one row of the keyboard. 

Alaska

800

In poetry, formal verse has a meter and rhyme scheme. Blank verse has meter, but no rhyme scheme. What type of verse does not use meter or rhyme scheme?

Free

800

What is the programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and named after the type of coffee from Indonesia?

Java

800

What coffee chain, local to the western United States, is based in Grants Pass, Oregon--not, as the name might suggest, Amsterdam or The Hague?

Dutch Bros.

800

Steven Spielberg has directed how many Feature Films?

34

800

The Eiffel Tower is made of iron, which expands when it gets hot. This means the tower can grow up to ______ taller during the summer months due to thermal expansion

15 centimeters

900

A Rochester, New York organization developed what open-source operating system, written in way more than three lines of code, and named for what short poetry form?

Haiku

900

One of the best coffees in the world, yirgacheffe, comes from the town of Yirga Chefe in what East African country?

Ethiopia

900

What American chain localizes its fare with offerings such as Turkish coffee in the Republic of Georgia and versions of its signature product stuffed with kimchi in South Korea and topped with fish flakes in China?

Dunkin' Donuts

900

In addition to directing, Spielberg was also a prolific producer. Throughout his six decades in show business, Spielberg produced over ____ film and television projects

150

900

What restaurant chain was founded as Danny's Donuts in 1953 before dropping the latter word and eventually slightly altering the first word in 1959?

Denny's

1000

What “A” word refers to the repetition of internal vowel sounds in words that are close together, often used to create a lyrical effect in poetry?

Assonance

1000

In Costa Rica, it is illegal to produce any kind of coffee bean other than what bean that makes up over 60% of global production?

Arabica

1000

Doutor Coffee is a company that specializes in coffee roasting. In which East Asian country was Doutor Coffee founded in 1976?

Japan

1000

In which of Spielberg's early films can you spot a truck with the word 'Grebleips' written on it? (Grebleips is Spielberg backwards)

Duel

1000

Technically speaking, the longest word in English is “Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl…isoleucine”. That’s the scientific name for the largest protein in the human body, scientifically known as ‘titin,’ made up of over 190,000 letters. However, what is often called the longest english word? 

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis(medical term for a lung disease caused by inhaling silica dust.), is 45 letters long and referenced in the Oxford English Dictionary. It is one of the longest English words that is commonly used and is officially published.

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