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100

This sort of tree makes up what is called the single biggest organism on Earth.  The colony of 47,000 trees is located in Utah and is named Pando, the Trembling Giant.  

What is Aspen?

 

100

Name the character who was popular in the 1980's


Who is The Noid?  

100

Name the pictured character from Mel Brook's 1987 comedy "Spaceballs", which was a spoof of "Star Wars".  

Who is Pizza the Hutt?

100

The first Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the United States, it was founded February25, 1837.

 

What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania or What is Cheyney University?  

100

This was created by the Georgia Peach Council in the 1950's to sell canned peaches. The rough look gives the dish its name.

What is Peach Cobbler? 

 

100

Mouselike boy in an E.B. White story traveling through the heavens as Ursa Minor

What is Stuart Little Dipper? or What is Stuart Little Bear? 

100

She is the heroine of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter

Who is Hester Prynne?  

200

By mass, the nickname of the tree found in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in California that is the world's largest tree.  

Who is General Sherman? 


200

American actress Nancy Walker played Rosie, a New Jersey diner waitress, in a series of commercials for this product.

What is Bounty paper towels?  


200

Name three of the five top selling days for pizza in the United States.  

Bonus: Receive an additional 500 points if you name all five days!  

What are 

Super Bowl Sunday
New Year's Eve
Halloween
The night before Thanksgiving
New Year's Day?

200

These are two important years, one is the year when Rosa Parks was arrested and ten years later this is the year when Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have A Dream Speech”.

What is 1955 and 1965?  


200

This book was banned from a town in Wisconsin because it had references to alcohol, drugs, violence, and suspicious behavior.

What is James and the Giant Peach?  

200

A landmark Louisiana area featuring Bourbon Street gets a classic burger from McDonald's

What is the French Quarter Pounder?  

200

Of these ingredients, which does NOT appear in the Witches’s “Double, double toil and trouble” speech from Macbeth.  

A. Eye of newt

B. Lizard’s leg

C. Wing of bat

D. Tongue of dog

What is Wing of bat?  or What is C.? 

300

Sharing its name with Noah's grandfather, the name of the tree in California's White Mountains that is the second oldest tree in the world.  A young 4,700+ years old compared to the oldest is in the mountains of Sweden, at a mere 9,550 years old.  

What is Methuselah? 

 

300

Not known for souping up Brillo pads, name this guy.


Who is Andy Warhol? 

300

The name of the pizza restaurant in the first Toy Story movie which was an important setting to the plot, because the heroes picked up a few "little green men" from "the claw" machine.

What is Pizza Planet? 

300

This author wrote about their early years in St. Louis and Stamps, Ark in the best selling memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"  

Who is Maya Angelou? 


300

Famous street name in large southern city, due in part to Margaret Mitchell's novel which introduced the city and its most famous street to popular culture.

What is Peachtree Street? 

300

A California cheddar-like cheese becomes a small terrier dog breed

What is a Monterey Jack Russell Terrier?  

300

This is the author who penned the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Goldfinch.

Who is Donna Tartt?  

400

Early leaky pipes were a nightmare, so the wood of this tree was the most popular choice for water pipes until the 1700s, as unlike other woods it does not decay when kept permanently wet.

What is Elm?  

400

At the height of the dot.com bubble, this lovable sock puppet was the spokesperson for this internet site.  


What is Pets.com? 

400

In 1961 Co-Founder of "DomiNick's" (which became Domino's Pizza) James Monaghan traded his half of the business to his brother, Tom, for this.  


What is a Volkswagen Beetle?


400

This famous baseball player said, "Today's black athletes have no idea what we had to endure.”

Who was Ernie Banks?  Go Cubs!!! 

“During the civil rights era,” Banks told the AARP in a 2011 interview, “black players encountered racial barriers, both on and off the field: teammates refusing to shake hands, fans shouting out insults, whites-only signs and many other painful struggles just to play baseball.”



400

Rydell High student, Rizzo of the Pink Ladies, mutters this phrase.  

What is “Peachy keen, jelly bean.” 

400

American daisy with dark center that was a leading U.S. suffragette

What is Black-Eyed Susan B. Anthony?

400

This is the year when Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” was first published.  Also this year, Florida and Texas become the 27th and 28th states and the U.S. Congress establishes a uniform date for federal elections, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November.  

What is 1845?  

500

Within 10 feet, plus or minus, this is the height of the tallest tree, a towering redwood in California named Hyperion.  (Hint: Roughly 35 stories)  

What is 379.7 feet?  

For our purpose will will round up to 380, so any answer from 370 feet to 390 feet will be accepted.  


500

During a busy 2010, Kim Kardashian squeezed in a role as a spokesperson for this product.  


What is Charmin? 

500

In 1958 this is the town that Dan and Frank Carney built the first Pizza Hut.  They borrowed $600 from their mother to rent a small building and purchase second-hand equipment.  The rest is history.  

Where is Wichita, Kansas? 

500

This group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961


What is CORE-Congress of Racial Equality?

Busloads of Freedom Riders went from town to town, testing local compliance with federal orders to desegregate interstate bus terminals.

500

2019 song by the folk band CAAMP or grandma's drink made with things like rum, sugar, and frozen limeade.

  

What is Peach Fuzz?  

500

CBS forensics drama with Gil Grissom that has some 'splainin' to do when it turns into a Desi Arnaz sitcom

What is CSI Love Lucy?  

500

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights recounts the tragic romance between these two lovers.

Who are Catherine and Heathcliff? 

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