What Happened to the Stairs?
Grinds My Gears
Ghosts of Dandies Past
Culi-Jerry
Delights
Olive the Important Questions
100

It’s a Dandy biathlon with this portmanteau, a phrase that can refer to golf played with either soaring discs or nimble amphibians.

What is Frolf (Rolf)?

100

The planet of Sera in the Gears of War franchise is home to this incredibly popular sport.

What is Thrashball?

100

This is the name of the hot gum challenge featured in the 2021 DBCCL.

What is the Trouble Bubble Challenge?

100

This is the flour + butter + milk mixture often used when making Mac n Cheese.

What is a béchamel?

100

Uh oh, briny… Adding olive juice to a martini makes it this.

What is a dirty martini?

200

Bark bark! This phrase was used by Nina Tucker to refer affectionately to Edward and Alphonse Elric.

What is Big Brother (Eddy’s Brother)?

200

By holding a certain button press, players can rev the chainsaw on this iconic weapon from the Gears of War series.

What is the Lancer?

200

This famous actor's face was put on the wall behind the main camera in the 2017 DBCCL.

Who is Danny DeVito? 

200

This is my favorite delicacy of Julie’s.

What are Big YEET Brownies?

200

Although not exactly chromatically accurate, the adjective “olive” is sometimes used to describe this trait in humans.

What is complexion?

300

These non-contagious ulcers form in your mouth after repeated irritation, such as eating sour candy.

What are Canker Sores (The Kanker Sisters)?

300

This 8-bit fourth generation handheld game console was released by Sega in 1990 in Tokyo, with worldwide release in 1991.

What is the Sega GameGear?

300

This person voiced the character Roobit of Pizza Game during the 2021 DBCCL. 

Who is Haley?

300

This is the chemical reaction that occurs when searing meat that causes the brown crust we oh so desire.

What is the Maillard Reaction?

300

This animal is the namesake of the largest variety of olive (in size). The same hard-working cutie was also traditionally used to turn a stone wheel which ground olives into paste for processing.

What is a donkey?

400

This number, fundamental in physics, is represented by h and is used to measure how much a photon’s energy increases.

What is Planck’s Constant (Plank)?

400

The well known World War 2 combat game “Brothers in Arms” was made by this studio.

Who is GearBox Software?

400

The 2016 DBCCL was infamous for a mispronunciation of “Chanuka”. In Hebrew, the holiday is spelled “חנוכה”, beginning with this hard-to-pronounce character, which is the eighth in the Hebrew alphabet.

What is Chet?

400

The is the French-named cooking gadget that circulates water to cook food to a specific temperature.

What is a Sous Vide?

400

Talk about early-stage capitalism! This Greek island began growing olives commercially around 3000 BC. It’s also home to the Olive Tree of Vouves, a 4000 year-old tree which still produces fruit.

What is Crete?

500

This archaic phrase, appearing often in classic works such as Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, is used to refer pejoratively to one’s inferior.

What is Sirrah (Sarah)?

500

The more formal name for a gearshift.

What is the Transmission Lever?

500

The word “Holiday” was said this many times in our hit Christmas song “Deck the DanDys”.

What is 26?

500

BABY, I compare you to a kiss from a wok on the flame, Oooh the more I get of you the better my food tastes yeahhh. This is the term for the “breath of the wok”.

What is Wok Hei?

500

Spain is the world’s top olive producer, coming in at almost six million metric tons per year. 75% of Spain’s olives come from this region, which is also the setting of the opera Carmen.

What is Andalusia?

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