RELATIVE ACQUAINTANCES
COMMON NAME
SAM’S FAVORITES
FAMOUS CLAUDES
POTPOURRI
100

JOHN GOWAN SERVED AS A GENERAL DURING THE WAR OF 1812, WHICH WAS FOUGHT BETWEEN THESE TWO MAJOR POWERS.

WHAT ARE THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM?

100

CHOPPER, HOG, SICKLE

WHAT IS A MOTORCYCLE?

100

LOUIS L’AMOUR WROTE SHORT STORIES AND NOVELS IN THIS GENRE.

WHAT IS WESTERN?

100

TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS CAESAR AUGUSTUS GERMANICUS, AKA CLAUDIUS, WAS EMPEROR OF ROME FROM 41 TO 54 CE, AND WAS THE ONLY EMPEROR TO BE BORN OUTSIDE THIS COUNTRY.

WHAT IS ITALY?

100

SAM WAS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY OF THIS MALE YOUTH CLUB.

WHAT ARE THE BOY SCOUTS?

200

THIS DISTANT GOWAN ANCESTOR WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY.


WHO IS JEFFERSON DAVIS?

200

ECDYSIAST, SHOWGIRL, BURLESQUE

WHAT IS A STRIPPER?

200

EARLY VERSIONS OF LEMON ICEBOX PIE, AND THIS PIE, REQUIRED NO BAKING AS THE ACIDITY WOULD SET THE EGGS TO THE CORRECT CONSISTENCY.


WHAT IS KEY LIME PIE?

200

CLAUDE LOUIS BERTHOLLET WAS A FRENCH CHEMIST WHO DISCOVERED THE CLEANING SOLUTION SODIUM HYPOCHLORITE, AKA ANTIFORMIN, CHLORIDE OF SODA, OR THIS.

WHAT IS BLEACH?

200

THIS WAS THE HOME TEAM OF THE FIRST NHL GAME SAM WORKED AS A LINESMAN.

WHAT ARE THE DALLAS STARS?

300

THIS ANTHROPOMORPHIC CHARACTER HELPED POPULARIZE SPORTS MASCOTS IN THE 1970s AND WAS ONCE SUED BY BARNEY THE DINOSAUR.

WHO IS THE SAN DIEGO CHICKEN?

300

CRACKLINS, CHICHARÓNES, GRATONS

WHAT ARE PORK RINDS?

300

THIS, ANOTHER OF SAM’S FAVORITE PIES, IS USUALLY FILLED WITH MEAT AND VEGETABLES.

WHAT IS CHICKEN POT PIE?

300

CLAUDE CAT, THE YELLOW CAT IN LOONEY TUNES AND MERRIE MELODIES SHORTS FROM THE ‘50s, WAS VOICED BY THIS MAN, “THE MAN OF 1,000 VOICES.”


WHO IS MEL BLANC?

300

SWEDISH AUTHOR STIEG LARSSON WROTE THE “MILLENIUM’ SERIES, WHICH STARTED WITH THIS NOVEL.

WHAT IS THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO?

400

THIS CITY IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE “STAR CITY OF THE SOUTH.

WHAT IS ROANOKE, VIRGINIA?

400

JACK, EDDIE, WISHBONE


WHAT IS A JACK RUSSELL TERRIER?

400

SAM GRADUATED FROM A UNIVERSITY THAT WAS FOUNDED AS TEXAS NORMAL COLLEGE & TEACHER TRAINING INSTITUTE AND IS CURRENTLY KNOWN AS THIS.

WHAT IS THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS?

400

MONSEIGNEUR CLAUDE FROLLO IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER AND THE MAIN ANTAGONIST OF VICTOR HUGO'S 1831 NOVEL, THIS.

WHAT IS THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME?

400

JACQUELINE DOESN’T CARE TO HEAR SAM’S GOREY STORIES. PERHAPS SHE SUFFERS FROM THIS, THE IRRATIONAL FEAR OF BLOOD.

WHAT IS HEMOPHOBIA?

500

BEFORE JULIUS CAESAR, THIS DAY WAS MOSTLY NOTABLE AS A DEADLINE FOR SETTLING DEBTS.

WHAT IS THE IDES OF MARCH?

500

KAHIKO, ʻAUANA, MEKE

WHAT IS HULA?

500

ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED RECIPES OF THIS DRINK WAS IN THE MAGAZINE HOUSEKEEPING IN OLD VIRGINIA BY MARION CABELL TYREE, PUBLISHED IN 1877.

WHAT IS ICED TEA?

500

AMERICAN MATHEMATICIAN CLAUDE SHANNON CALCULATED THAT THE NUMBER OF POSSIBLE MOVES IN THIS GAME WAS 10120. FOR COMPARISON, THE NUMBER OF ATOMS IN THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE IS ROUGHLY ESTIMATED AT 1080.

WHAT IS CHESS?

500

SAM ONCE GOT A FREE ONYCHECTOMY AS A HOCKEY REFEREE. KNOWN AS DECLAWING FOR CATS, IT IS THE REMOVAL OF THIS IN HUMANS.      

WHAT IS A TOENAIL?

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