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100

What percentage of the earth's oxygen is produced by the Amazon rain forest?

What is 20% 

100

This novel is the best-selling novel of all time. It features a madman who fights windmills. 

What is Don Quixote, with over 500 million copies sold 

100

Soldiers would put up these posters of glamourous women while they were away from home.

What are "pin-ups"

100

What year was St. Andrews Village built? 

2000

100

This franchise deals in bizarre items and events and was founded by Robert Ripley in 1918. 

What is Ripley's Believe it or Not!  

200

What type of bear is nearly undetectable by infrared cameras? 

What is the Polar Bear. 

They keep most of their body heat under layers of blubber and fur. 

200

Originally, Edgar Allen Poe wanted this bird to say "Nevermore", instead of a raven. 

What is a parrot 

200

In 1942 the age to enter the military lowered from 21 to ____. 

What is age 18

200

Chef Sean Ronan is married to this other staff member.

Amy Ronan (Dining Services Manager)


200

The part of Maggie was played by this glamorous actress in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Who was Elizabeth Taylor

300

The adult human body is made up of how many bones? 

What is 206 bones

300

Harper Lee wrote only one novel. What is the name of this novel? Hint: Atticus, Boo Radly and Scout are the names of some featured characters 

What is To Kill A Mockingbird

300

Two groundbreaking inventions from the military in the 1940s included the _____ and the ______. 

Atomic Bomb and the Slinky. 

(either answer results in full points) 

300

St. Andrew was the patron saint of _________.

Fishermen

300

The characters Wally and Beaver are the beloved stars of this family sitcom from the 1950's

What is "Leave It To Beaver" 

400

Earth's largest natural satellite is _________. 

What is the moon

400

A manual for how to raise a child was provided by this author, Dr._____

Who is Dr. Benjamin Spock (1946)

400

This disaster marked the end of an airship ara, killing 35 people on a zeppelin/blimp, bursting into flames. 

What was the Hindenburg Disaster 

400

How many staff members (total) work at the Village?

125

400

Americans could show their patriotism with a ______ garden to feed the neighborhood. 

What is a Victory Garden 

500

Dolphins travel in large groups called _______. 

What are pods 

500

Name any books by John Steinbeck. 

What are The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Of Mice And Men, America and Americans...

500

The world changed when this cookie was invented by Ruth Wakefield at the Tollhouse Inn in Massachusets in 1938

What is the chocolate chip cookie

500

Pianist Kevin Kiley works for this organization in Boothbay Harbor.

The Boothbay Opera House

500

This American jazz singer and bandleader popularized the infamous song "Minnie The Moocher" 

Who was Cab Calloway 

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