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A publisher bet him that he couldn't write a book using 50 or fewer words; the result was "Green Eggs and Ham"
Who is Dr. Seuss?
200
What are small round bumps on a ski slope called that give old people knee pain?
What are moguls?
200
Often shortened to "GM", it's the highest title conferred on players by the International Chess Federation
What is grandmaster?
200
This 1990 Christmas film stars Macaulay Culkin as a bratty 8-year old with some psychopathic traits
What is Home Alone?
200
Designing roads, bridges, sewers & other pieces of infrastructure falls under this branch of engineering
What is civil engineering?
400
You probably have some Y.A. fiction on your bookshelf, Y.A. standing for this
What is young adult?
400
This type of skiing, where thrill seekers slide down snow-covered slopes with fixed bindings gets its name from a Swiss mountain range
What is Alpine Skiing?
400
When things are hopeless, rather than waiting for checkmate, it's considered polite to do this, like Richard Nixon
What is resign?
400
Even when ol' Neil puts her down, this classic song from 1974 still gets people dancing
What is Sweet Home Alabama?
400
L.E.D. stands for light-emitting this component, common in electrical engineering
What is diode?
600
What is Holes?
600
This material is commonly found in ski and snowboard construction and has the smelly abbreviation PU?
What is polyurethane?
600
32 of the 34 games in the 1927 Capablanca-Alekhine world championship match began with this opening that was in the news again 93 years later thanks to the fictional Beth Harmon
What is the Queen's Gambit?
600
This 2004 Disney movie follows three singing cows—Maggie, Grace, and Mrs. Calloway—on a Wild West mission to save their farm from foreclosure.
What is Home on the Range?
600
In 1858 this French engineer built a railway bridge over the Garonne River; his more famous structure came 31 yrs. later
Who is Gustave Eiffel?
800
Fern Arable bawls her eyes out after this runty pig is marked for the axe in a 1952 book, but her dad relents & Fern is happy The following quote from this E.B White novel "If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs"
What is Charlotte's Web?
800
During her skiing career, Lindsey Vonn won a record 82 World Cup races; in 2023, this woman won her 83rd.
Who is Mikaela Shiffrin?
800
Once the youngest chess grandmaster in history at 15, Bobby Fischer later gave up U.S. citizenship & died a citizen of this country
What is Iceland?
800
This reality TV series sends designers across the country to renovate houses for deserving families that first aired in 2004?
What is Extreme Makeover: Home Edition?
800
After the completion of this feat of engineering in 1914, ships had an 8,000-nautical-mile shorter journey from N.Y. to California
What is the Panama Canal?
1000
The 1609 first printing of these Shakespeare poems is dedicated to a mysterious "Mr. W.H."
What are the sonnets?
1000
Skiing Ruthie's Run in this Colorado resort city, watch for moguls, both the human & terrain kind
What is Aspen Mountain?
1000
The book "Chess Queens" tells the story of the game's female pioneers, like this trio of stereotype-shattering sisters whose youngest, Judit, became both the world's youngest grandmaster & the first woman to be ranked among the world's top 10 players
Who are the Polgár sisters?
1000
During wartime, this term refers collectively to a nation’s civilian population and domestic economic activity supporting the war effort.
What is “Home Front”?
1000
Established in 1802, it was the first school of engineering in the U.S. & women weren't admitted until 1976
What is West Point?