Potent Potables
2-or-5 Letter Words
Potpourri
Before and After
Katharine Martha Mahoney
100

This type of booze is also a letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet

What is Whiskey?

100

A snippet of it: ...288419716...

What is Pi?

100

This Greek island was the birthplace of the poet Sappho

What is Lesbos?

100

Washington, D.C. concert venue home to D.A.R. conventions that had 1980s No. 1 hits with "Maneater" & "Kiss On My List"

What is Constitution Hall and Oates?

100

The eighth planet from the sun, and Kate's favorite planet

What is Neptune?

200

More similar to beer than wine in production, it begins with steamed rice & mold

What is Sake?

200

The 10 Commandments say not to do this to another man's house or wife

What is Covet?

200

The first country to give women the right to vote, in 1893

What is New Zealand?

200

Macedonian conqueror of Persia who is a large breed of canine like Scooby Doo

Who is Alexander the Great Dane?

200

Kate's favorite musical, which premiered on Broadway in 1966

What is Cabaret?

300

130 different herbs go into the green type of this liqueur made by French monks

What is Chartreuse?

300

The 2013 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association included a paper on "The Social Meaning of" this word

What is Eh?

300

The first televised presidential debate was held on September 20, 1960 between these two candidates

Who are Nixon and Kennedy?

300

C.S. Lewis' Narnia book that showed off a little too much skin at the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show

What is The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Malfunction?

300

Kate's favorite animal, whose closest relative is the elephant

What is a manatee?

400

The Willard Hotel in D.C. still serves this Southern bourbon classic the way Henry Clay liked it in the 1800s

What is a mint julep?

400

Poisonous or deadly, or a Britney Spears song

What is Toxic?

400

This singer's real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

Who is Lady Gaga?

400

Type of union at the hip between bones with a round end fitting into a cup that advises the president on military matters

What is a ball-and-socket Joint Chiefs of Staff?

400

Kate's favorite founding father who gave the "give me liberty or give me death" speech

Who is Patrick Henry?

500

During Prohibition this family of rum makers invited Americans to Cuba for weekend-long parties

What is Bacardi?

500

Pertaining to Benedict XVI or Boniface VIII

What is Papal?

500

The number of people in a group needed to make the probability of at least two of them sharing a birthday over 50%

What is 23?

500

Old West outlaw who takes a trip to the Big Apple in a fuzzy fruit in a Roald Dahl book

What is Jesse James and the Giant Peach?

500

Kate's favorite Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor, which contains a substance known as a "galactagogue" which is thought to increase breast milk supply in breastfeeding mothers

What is Oat of this Swirled?

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