Potpourri
Question for 100
What is x?
Using your focus & calm in all situations is called taking yoga off this rolled item.
What is the Mat?
Arizona's nickname it's found on its license plates
What is Grand Canyon State?
What year did the Wright Brothers take the first powered flight in (then) Kitty Hawk, NC?
When is 1903?
Famously green apples with a tart flavor that makes your mouth water.
What are Granny Smith Apples?
This person was MITRE’s first CEO
Who is Clair W. "Hap" Halligan?
This is the common name for All Hallows Eve
What is Halloween?
This 4-letter Hindi word is used to mean a specialized expert; it can also be your yogi or teacher.
What is a Guru?
Around 1905 these animals, not native to Arizona, were brought to a ranch in the state, where they now roam.
What is a Buffalo?
Due to the high number of shipwrecks off the Outer Banks, they've been dubbed:
The Graveyard of the Atlantic?
Little Red Riding Hood met this at her Grandma's House.
Who is the Big Bad Wolf?
This Air Force project was the first major project work of MITRE.
What is SAGE?
A 200-mile (320 km) string of barrier islands and splits off the coast of North Carolina and southeastern Virginia, on the east coast of the United States.
What are the Outer Banks?
A guiding principle in yoga is ahimsa this pacifistic practice advanced by Mahatma Gandhi.
What is Non-Violence?
A 1680 rebellion by the Hopi Indians against the Spanish is named for these typical communal dwellings.
What is a Pueblo?
Queen Elizabeth I issued a charter in 1584 to this person to establish a colony in what is now North Carolina.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
On July 22 1989 she celebrated her 99th birthday at the family compound in Hyannis Port
Who is Rose Kennedy?
This year was when MITRE was formed.
When is 1958?
A parlor game generally played with twelve or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking turns rolling three dice in a series of six rounds
What is Bonco?
The 8 elements of ashtanga yoga include pranayama control of this vital process.
What is breathing?
This city grew up around a flagpole erected to celebrate the U.S. Centennial of 1876.
What is Flagstaff?
This is one of the largest Sand Dunes on the East Coast.
What is Jockey's Ridge?
Born in 1925 this woman had a First Daughter of the U.S. as well as 2 First Granddaughters
Who is Barbara Bush?
The MITRE corporation consists of this many FFRDCs
What is 7?
This science fiction media franchise debuted on September 8, 1966.
What is Star Trek?
One form that requires less concentration than Hindu yoga is TM which means this
What is Transcendental Meditation?
It's a monstrous orange and black lizard named for a river that crosses Arizona
What is Gila Monster?
This is the northern most light house on the outer banks.
What is Currituck Beach Lighthouse?
An Ore. grandma clocked at 103 mph in '09 said she was teaching her 10-year-old grandson the dangers of this.
What is speed?
IN 1996 MITRE split into these two entities
What are the MITRE Corporation and Mitretek systems