Geography
First Ladies
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Great Crimes of the Century
Jukebox Musicals
That's Fowl
Potpourri
100
This Texas city contains a replica of the Eiffel Tower, less than one tenth the scale of the original.
What is Paris, TX?
100
In 1962, this first lady won an Emmy award for her televised tour of the White House
Who is Jackie Kennedy?
100
"Apiculture" is the technical term for raising this type of insects.
What are bees?
100
In 1974 this heiress and granddaughter of an American publishing magnate was kidnapped by a band of domestic terrorists who called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Who is Patty Hearst?
100
This Broadway show is a celebration of the music of Swedish superstars ABBA. It has grossed over 600 million dollars and successfully spun off into a film and sequel.
What is Mamma Mia?
100
The costume of this Sesame Street character is made up of about 4000 white turkey feathers dyed bright yellow
Who is Big Bird?
100
An elephant's tusks are equivalent to these teeth on a human
What are the incisors?
200
The Will Rogers Memorial Highway is also known by this numerical name.
What is Route 66?
200
Claudia Johnson, nicknamed this, was responsible for a highway beautification project that spread wildflowers all around, growing on the highway medians.
What is Lady Bird?
200
This stonefruit is the national fruit of India, Haiti, and the Philippines.
What is the mango?
200
In 1924, Leopold and Loeb were two wealthy teenagers who kidnapped and murdered a 14 year old boy named Bobby Franks (just to prove that they could create the "perfect murder") in this Midwest city.
What is Chicago?
200
Beautiful tells the of the early life of this singer/songwriter, using the songs she wrote alone and with her then-husband Gerry Goffin, including such unforgettable classics as "You've Got a Friend", "One Fine Day", "So Far Away", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", and "Natural Woman."
Who is Carole King?
200
This S word is the the fleshy, colored appendage that hangs over the beak. It can also be a hair bow attached to a net (on a human) dating back to the 11th Century.
What is a Snood?
200
Quick breads are missing this component that helps other breads rise
What is yeast?
300
This river flows through 4 European capital cities; Vienna (Austria), Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia), Belgrade (Serbia).
What is the Danube?
300
At 5'11", these two women are tied for tallest woman to ever hold the title of first lady.
Who are Michelle Obama and Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
In the 1990s, this illness, previously thought to be confined to cattle, was found to have been expanded to impact livestock, other animals, and even humans.
What is Mad Cow Disease?
300
In 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of killing the 35th president of the United States. Two days later, this nightclub owner with ties to organized crime shot Oswald before any concrete information about the assassination could be assessed.
Who is Jack Ruby?
300
This musical opened on Broadway in 2005 and was a smash hit that told the story of doo-wop sensations Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons. It became a movie in 2014,directed by Clint Eastwood.
What is Jersey Boys?
300
Ben Franklin's hope to make this bird our national symbol was largely myth, but he really did hate the Bald Eagle, the one who got the job. He wrote a letter to his daughter stating them to be “a Bird of bad moral Character” that “does not get his Living honestly.”
What is the turkey?
300
Orson Welles was this age when he directed Citizen Kane
What is 25?
400
This country is known as "The Pearl of the Indian Ocean."
What is Sri Lanka?
400
After leaving the White House, this first lady co-founded a drug rehab facility, after her own successful treatment for an addiction to prescription drugs.
Who is Betty Ford?
400
In the 1950's, the "Cavendish" overtook the "Gros Michel" as the most commonly grown variety of this culinary fruit
What is the banana?
400
In 1971, an unknown man hijacked a Boeing 727 and escaped with $200,000 by parachuting from the plane. He was given this alias by the media; 54 years later, the FBI still considers this an open investigation and very little of the money has been recovered.
Who is DB Cooper?
400
Movin' Out was conceived by choreographer Twyla Tharpe and featured the songs of this famous piano man from the Bronx.
Who is Billy Joel?
400
Monotremes, reptiles and various hatchlings have one of these, a tiny horn-like projection at the tip of the upper beak of a newly hatched chick, used to break through a shell
What is an egg tooth?
400
By definition, a "defenestrated" object has been this.
What is thrown out a window?
500
This is the only national flag that contains no red, blue or white colors.
What is Jamaica?
500
Frances Folsom married this man, 21 years her senior, and was the first First Lady to give birth in the White House in 1893.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
500
This starch is extracted from the cassava plant, native to Brazil. Its a staple crop for much of the world, it's also used to form "pudding" and "pearls."
What is Tapioca?
500
This civil rights leader was shot on the front doorstep of his Jackson, Mississippi, home in June 1963, but it wasn’t until 1994 that evidence collected by the FBI finally helped convict white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith for the assassination.
Who is Medgar Evers?
500
Million Dollar Quartet opened on Broadway in 2010 and tells the story of when these four men, all rock and country music icons, who met for a jam session at Sun Records in Memphis in 1956.
Who are Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins?
500
This Italian breed of chicken originating in Tuscany. The birds were exported to North America in about 1828. In the Looney Tunes universe, its also the last name of a large anthropomorphic rooster with a deep southern accent.
What is a Leghorn?
500
in 1885, this soft drink was invented at Morrison's Old Corner Drug Store in Waco, TX.
What is Dr. Pepper?