The 1980s
Funny Juice
Kentucky State Parks
Weird History
9th Grade Science
100
The acronym, VHS, stands for this
What is "video home system"?
100
Cocktails like the Tequila Sunrise and Queen Mary call for this specific type of cherry, sweetened and preserved in syrup
What is maraschino?
100
This is the name of the world's longest known cave system
What is Mammoth Cave?
100
This writer was the first person to make a 'yo momma' joke:
"Thou has undone our mother,”
“Villain, I have done thy mother.”
Who was William Shakespeare?
100
If a liquid has a pH of 12, it is considered to be
What is basic/alkaline?
200
This movie featured the title song Eye of the Tiger by Survivor in 1982
What is Rocky III?
200
This many red grapes are needed to make a bottle of redwine
What is 600-800 grapes?
200
There are this many Kentucky State parks
What is 45 parks? (there is also 1 interstate park)
200
Pope Gregory IX's decree to kill these animals (as they were 'agents of Satan') directly led to the Black Death pandemic
What are cats?
200
This organelle holds most of the genetic information of the cell and controls cell functioning
What is the nucelus?
300
This is the name of Whitney Houston's first platinum single (having been released in 1987, and going platinum in 1989)
What is I Wanna Dance With Somebody?
300
Bourbon is to be bottled at this proof (within the range)
What is 80-100 proof?
300
This is the name of the oldest Kentucky State Park
What is Pine Mountain State Resort Park?
300
In 1895, the first car crash on American soil occured in Ohio. At this time, there were this many cars in the state of Ohio
What is 2 cars?
300
This process is the direct opposite/inverse process of Cellular Respiration
What is Photosynthesis?
400
This person was the Vice President of the united states from 1981-1989
Who is George W. Bush?
400
This cocktail, often standardized as being one part dark rum, one part vodka, and one part orange juice, was originally produced as a premixed bottled beverage, and inspired a 1986 hip-hop song by the trio of MCA, Ad-Rock, and Mike D
What is Brass Monkey?
400
The Natural Bridge land formation at Natural Bridge state park rises to this height (within 5 feet)
What is 65 feet?
400
As the Titanic was sinking, 36 flares were released as a distress signal. The SS Californian did see the flares but mistook them for this, causing them to not come to the sinking ship's aid
What are fireworks?
400
"Descent with modification" is a phrase used to describe this evolutionary concept (posed by Charles Darwin)
What is natural selection?
500
This film took home 7 academy awards in 1986, including best picture
What is Out of Africa?
500
Moonshine is typically aged this long
What is no time/it's not aged?
500
This state park was named for the Pleistocene megafauna fossils founds around the salt deposits in the area
What is Big Bone Lick State park?
500
The salem witch trials were actually caused by a mix of mass hysteria and the influence of this wheat fungus
What is ergot?
500
Name TWO of the FOUR macromolecules
What are carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, nucleic acids?