An "Advent"urous Category
Lock, Stock, and Barrel
Sweet Celebrities?
Reese's Pieces?
State Mottos
100
Advent culminates in the celebration of this.
What is Christmas?
100
This gun fires a number of small, spherical pellets called "shot" rather than a single bullet.
What is a shotgun?
100
This chocolate-covered wafer biscuit bar confection is produced worldwide by Nestlé; she is a tattoo artist famous for her role in LA Ink.
Who is KitKat Von D?
100
In this film, she plays June Carter, love interest of Johnny Cash.
What is Walk the Line?
100
Esse Quam Videri.
What is North Carolina?
200
This is the number of Scripture readings that we did each week.
What is four?
200
This kind of gun uses, rather than a magazine, a cylindrical, revolving chamber to hold its bullets.
What is a revolver?
200
This is an American candy bar made of peanuts, caramel and chocolate-flavored nougat covered in chocolate, refashioned from a treat called Kandy Kake; she is the second female Supreme Court Justice and the first Jewish female justice.
Who is Baby Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
200
In this romantic comedy, she plays Elle Woods, fashion merchandising major who becomes Harvard Law graduate.
What is Legally Blonde?
200
The motto of this "sweet home" is "Audemus jura nostra defendere" ("We dare defend our rights").
What is Alabama?
300
This is the number of weeks in Advent.
What is four?
300
The purpose of this tapered constriction of the gun barrel's bore at the muzzle end--almost always used with shotguns--is to decrease the spread of the shot in order to gain better range and accuracy.
What is a choke?
300
This treat features a coconut-based center topped with two almonds covered in a layer of milk chocolate; a sometime comedian, she is also a co-host of The View.
Who is Almond Joy Behar?
300
In this romantic comedy, she becomes engaged while still married to another man back in her small, southern hometown.
What is Sweet Home Alabama?
300
The Buckeye State believes that "with God, all things are possible."
What is Ohio?
400
These are the Advent themes that we discussed over successive weeks.
What are hope, peace, joy, and love?
400
This is the part of the firearm that houses the operating parts. It is also sometimes referred to as the "body" of the firearm.
What is the receiver?
400
This cinnamon-flavored gum is produced by Wrigley's; he began his show-business career as a clown and ended up as a comedian famous for his shapeless felt hat and many assumed characters, including Cauliflower McPugg.
Who is Big Red Skelton?
400
She plays the "ghost" of a doctor in a coma in this movie.
What is Just Like Heaven?
400
The Granite State vows to "Live Free or Die."
What is New Hampshire?
500
Latin _adventus_ is the translation of this Greek word, commonly used to refer to the Second Coming of Christ.
What is parousia?
500
This is the process of making helical grooves in the barrel of a gun or firearm, which imparts a spin to a projectile around its long axis. This spin serves to gyroscopically stabilize the projectile, improving its aerodynamic stability and accuracy.
What is rifling?
500
This is an American brand of cookie known for its rhyming name; In 2011, his album Mission Bell debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart.
Who is Famous Amos Lee?
500
In this, her first, film, she co-stars with Sam Waterston and Jason London
What is The Man in the Moon?
500
The home of the Grand Ole Opry proclaims that "Salus populi suprema lex esto" ("Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law").
What is Missouri?
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