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100

1. He resigned from the Presidency mid-term

Richard Nixon

100

1. Revelations' Number of the Beast

666

100

1. Shakespeare's Juliet pondered, "A ____ by any other name would smell as sweet?"

Rose

100

1. What breed of wrinkly dog is this?

Shar Pei

100

1. Brand known for its tasty weiner

Oscar Meyer

200

2. The small boy who famously saluted his father's grave after assassination

John F Kennedy Jr, JFK jr, John-John

200

2. PI to four decimal places (rounding, no rounding accepted)

3.1415 or 3.1416

200

2. This plant is actually known to catch and consume insects

Venus Fly Trap

200

2. Born like a fish, grows up on land, & served in some restaurants

Frog

200

2. This movie was mistakenly declared “Best Picture” in 2017

LA LA Land

300

3. Prez hurt by Teapot Dome and extra-marital affairs

Warren Harding

300

3. The number of articles ratified in the original Bill of Rights

10

300

3. A poisonous plant, used by Socrates for suicide

Hemlock

300

3. Native to the Philippines and SE Asia, these are among the world's smallest primates

Tarsier

300

3. Name 3 people who won 3 or more Oscars (1 pt per person)

Daniel Day Lewis, Jack Nicholson, Walter Brennan, Igmar Bergman, Katherine Hepburn 4

400

4. First President to win election but lose popular vote

John Quincy Adams

400

4. Number of zeros in a Quadrillion

15

400

4. This beauty takes 7-10 years to bloom for the first time… then may bloom every 2-3 thereafter…  it's worth the wait, since it has the odor of rotting meat.

corpse flower or corpse plant


Amorphophallus titanum

400

4. Common name for this Australian creature… he blends in well with his plant environment and it is the male who cares for the eggs until hatched

leafy seadragon or Glauert's seadragon, Phycodurus eques

400

4. He wrote, "I can resist anything except temptation."

Oscar Wilde

500

5. She Was First Lady of NY, First Lady of US, Author, & Flew with Amelia

Eleanor Roosevelt

500

5. Number of countries in the European Union today

27

500

5. Native to the island of Socrota, this umbrella like tree has a red sap for which it is named

Dracaena cinnabari, the Socotra dragon tree or dragon blood tree

500

5. This creature was discovered in 1894 Mexico, but not seen again for more than a century, leading researchers to fear it had gone extinct. However, in 2003, two researchers set out to search for the species in the same region from which it was first discovered. Their expedition met with success, and they found three individuals.

Nelson’s small eared shrew

500

5. This Oscar's dad worked in small vaudeville productions but he became a world famous lyracist and playwright

Oscar Hammerstein II

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