A CONTESTANT WALKS INTO A "BAR"
EARTH, WIND & FIRE
LITERARY TITLE BEVERAGES
JUST DESERTS
SAILING THE 5 SEAS
CORPORATE SCANDAL
400
System of exchanging goods or services without using money
barter
400
About 80% of energy released by quakes comes from events with epicenters in the Circum-Pacific belt, AKA this, AKA a Johnny Cash tune
Ring of Fire
400
Okakura Kakuzo's classic work "The Book of" this beverage explores its history & place in Asian culture
tea
400
Home to Burning Man, Black Rock Desert is in the northwest part of this state
Nevada
400
Travel from Colombia to Jamaica across this sea
the Caribbean Sea
400
Companies held legally responsible for the gigantic spill at the Macondo Oil Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico included Transocean, Halliburton, Anadarko & this multinational oil company
BP
800
Tanzania gets part of its name from this island
Zanzibar
800
Go to hispanicfederation. org to help this island hit by 155-mph winds in a 2017 hurricane & a 6.4 earthquake in 2020
Puerto Rico
800
"Rusty Nail" & "Bloody Mary" are titles in the series about this police detective whose name sounds like Tennessee whiskey
Jack Daniels
800
The Taklamakan desert spans over 100,000 square miles of the Uyghur autonomous region in this country
China
800
Odessa & Sochi are ports on this sea that looks dark in winter due to heavy fogs
the Black Sea
800
Dennis Muilenburg lost first his job as chairman, then as CEO, of Boeing over the growing scandal from the tragic crashes of this airplane model
the 737 MAX
1200
A decompression chamber can also be called this kind of chamber
a hyperbaric chamber
1200
Wind erosion in this rugged 2,000-square-mile area of the Dakotas has unearthed a large number of fossils
the Badlands
1200
Laura Esquivel's bestseller "Like Water for Chocolate" takes place in this country around the turn of the 20th century
Mexico
1200
"P" is for this desert that takes up large parts of Argentina & Chile
the Patagonian Desert
1200
The Germans call this bordering sea Ostsee; the Swedes', Ostersjon
the Baltic
1200
TDI Clean Diesel turned out to be an oxymoron in 2015 when the EPA revealed that emissions tests were tampered with by this company & millions of cars were recalled
Volkswagen
1600
In reinforced concrete, it's what does the reinforcing
rebar
1600
Much of the business district in this New Zealand capital lies on reclaimed land after an 1855 earthquake raised its harbor bed
Wellington
1600
"Are You there, Vodka? It's Me," this comedian & talk show host & her collection of personal stories & witticisms
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1600
Named for a founding father of Israel, Ben-Gurion University of this desert area is a leading research university
the Negev
1600
In 1822 a Russian navy captain named this sea off his nation's east coast for a Danish explorer
the Bering Sea
1600
Elizabeth Holmes' claim that she could perform dozens of medical tests from a few drops of blood was the lie that created this company that the SEC said took more than $700 million from investors
Theranos
2000
You eat the red stalks of this plant; the green leaves are toxic
rhubarb
2000
A mass of oily rags that doesn't let the heat dissipate... oxidation raising the temp inside...& boom! you get this 2-word phenomenon
spontaneous combustion
2000
Naturally, apple picking is featured in this 1985 John Irving novel
The Cider House Rules
2000
Locals call the bleak Skeleton Coast where the Atlantic meets this desert "The Land God Made in Anger"
the Namib (Desert)
2000
On the other side of Greece from the Aegean, this sea is the Mediterranean's deepest, maxing at more than 16,000 feet
the Ionian
2000
Not long before he went to jail for securities fraud of around $11 billion, I interviewed Bernie Ebbers, CEO of this "global" telecom company that bought MCI
WorldCom