Wonderful Women
The “Temp”-ist
Believe It Or Not!
Much Ado About Nothing!
A New Record!
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She was in Kenya when she learned she had become queen on February 6, 1952
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
100
Japanese dish of battered, deep-fried vegetables or seafood.
What is tempura?
100
Believe it or not, herpetologist Bill Haast has been bitten over 150 times by these deadly creatures.
What are snakes?
100
Completes the title of the 1939 Agatha Christie novel “And Then There Were…”
What is None?
100
You’d need about 1,400 close friends to all sit on these “cushions” at the same time to set the world record.
What are whoopie cushions?
200
In 1767, this “Great” empress called a commission on legal reform.
Who is Catherine the Great?
200
The tendency to behave angrily or emotionally.
What is temperament?
200
Believe it or not, Texan David Pay has written over 300 alphabetic characters on a single grain of this.
What is rice?
200
In the 1970s, Jackson Browne was “Running On” this.
What is Empty?
200
Jean François Vernetti has the world’s largest collection of these hotel items found on door handles.
What are “do not disturb” signs?
300
She was prime minister of India for 15 years, and was called "Indu" for short.
Who is Indira Gandhi?
300
Something that serves as a model for others to copy.
What is a template?
300
Believe it or not, a 3-year-old Ugandan boy was adopted and raised for four years by a colony of these human-like apes.
What are chimps?
300
Jamie Oliver is known by this revealing chef nickname.
What is the Naked Chef?
300
Collectively the world’s longest, these 10 body parts on Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City measured 261 inches.
What are her fingernails?
400
In 1993, True Path Party leader Tansu Çiller became the first female prime minister of this large Muslim country.
What is Turkey?
400
Oscar Wilde once quipped, “I can resist everything except” this.
What is temptation?
400
Believe it or not, every year a Filipino village recreates this event from around 30 A.D. using nails.
What is the Crucifixion?
400
Perseus had a hat and Harry Potter had a cloak that made them this.
What is invisible?
400
Ting Ming Siong served as this in 1,089 weddings between 1975 and 1997.
What is best man?
500
An entirely female unit, the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon, helped win this country’s 1956–58 socialist revolution.
What is Cuba?
500
The term for total abstinence from alcohol.
What is temperance?
500
Believe it or not, because he believed it was possessed by his dead fiancée, a man married one of these children’s toys.
What is a Barbie doll?
500
Some psychologists believe babies are born with a tabula rasa, meaning this.
What is a blank slate?
500
With 3,307, Niek Vermeulen holds the record for the largest collection of these bags used by airline passengers.
What are barf bags or sick bags?
