Birthday Traditions
Before and After
Going "N"sane
Amazing Race
On This Day
100
When you turn the same age as the date of your birthday is commonly referred to as this.
What is your Golden Birthday?
100
Mouse-like boy in an E.B. White story traveling through the heavens as Ursa Minor.
What is Stuart Little Dipper?
100
It often precedes "and void."
What is null?
100
In this year, The Amazing Race premiered.
What is 2001?
100
On this day in 2004, this online mailing service was launched, and five years later the number of people using the e-mail service surpassed one billion.
What is Gmail?
200
Bilbo Baggins from the Lord of the Rings celebrates this birthday at the beginning of the series.
What is his "eleventy-first" birthday?
200
A French landmark becomes a Biblical spot where language comprehension breaks down.
What is The Eiffel Tower of Babel?
200
It's the drink of the gods, and of honeybees.
What is nectar?
200
In a typical season of The Amazing Race, this many people compete on each team.
What are 2 people?
200
On this day in 1976, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne formed this corporation and it became one of the world's leading tech companies.
What is Apple Computer Inc.?
300
This famous football quarterback shares a birthday with the twins.
Who is Tony Romo?
300
An absorbent, yellow, porous and fictional sea creature whose fibs are easily detected by his flaming slacks.
Who is Spongebob Squarepants on Fire?
300
This 600-year-old man built a 450-foot-long boat.
Who is Noah?
300
These are the colors of The Amazing Race route markers.
Red and Yellow
300
On this day in 2008, the twins were born and given these middle names, fitting with the family tradition.
What are "Jane Behan" and "Paul Behan"?
400
The tradition of putting candles on birthday cakes began in this ancient country.
What is Greece?
400
Walt Whitman poem about a Marvel character known as "The First Avenger."
What is O Captain! My Captain! America?
400
Now used for an intelligent but socially inept person, this term was popularized by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
What is a nerd?
400
The winners of the Amazing Race receive this prize.
What is $1,000,000?
400
On this day in 1957, a news broadcaster told his British audience that Ticino, a Swiss region near the Italian border, had had “an exceptionally heavy crop” of this that year. The camera cut to footage of people picking this off of trees and bushes, then sitting down at a table to eat some of their “real, home-grown this.”
What is spaghetti?
500
Marilyn Monroe famously sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to this U.S. President.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
500
The most energetic person at the event reads George Orwell classic.
What is Party Animal Farm?
500
Ammonia is made up of 3 parts hydrogen and 1 part this.
What is nitrogen?
500
This image is displayed on the pit stop mat at each leg of the race.
What is a map of the world?
500
On this day in 1578, English physician William Harvey, who discovered this fact of the nature of blood, was born.
What is the circulation?