Which Came First (Literary Edition)
Events from The 1940s
Movie Musicals
Let's Cook Together
Name That Dreamboat
Creatures of Legend
Scientific T Words
100
Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen
Crime and Punishment: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Robert Persig
What is Pride and Prejudice?
100
This man broadcast his first USO show over the radio in May, 1941. During the next 50 years he became synonymous with entertaining troops during wartime.
Who is Bob Hope?
100
In this musical, based on the life of Eva Peron, the lead only speaks 140 words. She sings the rest. Madonna played the role in the filmed version of this Andrew Lloyd Weber/Tim Rice collaboration
What is Evita?
100
Italian for "to the tooth", this is considered the perfect pasta cooking consistency, just a little resistant as you bite into in.
What is Al Dente?
100
You may know him as "Old Blue Eyes". He appeared in films like From Here to Eternity and Guys and Dolls, and recorded albums from the 1940s to the 1990s.
Who is Frank Sinatra?
100
A lycanthrope, also known as this creature, is a creature of the night, only comes out on a full moon and can only be killed by silver bullets.
What is a werewolf?
100
The process of stuffing a dead animal is known as this T word.
What is Taxidermy?
200
One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Of Mice and Men: John Steinbeck
Of Human Bondage: W Somerset Maugham
What is Of Human Bondage?
200
This famous couple married in London on November 20, 1947. She became the longest reigning sovereign in England's history and he, well, her prince.
Who are Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip?
200
Food, Glorious Food is a song from this 1968 musical film adaptation. Based on the second by Charles Dickens about a young orphan boy who's raised in a workhouse, escapes to London and joins a gang of youthful pickpockets. Please miss, could I have some more?
What is Oliver?
200
To do this, place vegetables or fruits into boiling water for a very short period of time (most often 30 seconds or less). Usually, the food is then quickly moved to a bowl of ice water to stop cooking.
What is Blanching?
200
This dreamy fella only made 3 movies in his lifetime. Rebel Without A Cause, Giant and East of Eden.
Who is James Dean?
200
In Washington Irving's short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, this ghoul may be haunting the small town, with a particular distaste for the school teacher, Ichabod Crane.
Who is the Headless Horseman?
200
Sometimes called Consumption, this lung disease would cause the person who had it to lose a lot of weight, giving them a pale complexion and often coughing up blood.
What is tuberculosis?
300
Beloved: Toni Morrison
Love Story: Erich Segal
To Sir With Love: E.R. Braithwaite
What is To Sir With Love?
300
Named for the location where the first public test of a nuclear bomb had taken place four days before, this bathing suit was first modeled in Paris in 1946
What is the bikini?
300
This American musical, named for a US city, was written by Kander and Ebb in 1975. It became an Oscar winning movie musical in 2002.
What is Chicago?
300
Along with being something you had to write in geometry class, this means allowing yeast to combine itself with water until bubbles begin to form, which activates the yeast so that it will serve as a leavening agent. Also, once your bread is mixed, it has to do this after its been shaped.
What is Proof?
300
Wait, he's British ?!?! Born Archibald Alec Leach in 1904, he's an actor known for comedic performances in the Philadelphia Story and Arsenic and Old Lace as well as suspenseful Hitchcockian fare like North By Northwest and Notorious.
Who is Cary Grant?
300
In Egypt, this beast had the body of a lion and the head of a man; in Greece, it had the breasts and head of a woman and wings,
What is the Sphinx?
300
A ringing of the ears, the perception of sound that does not have an external source, so other people cannot hear it. Instead of ringing, some people hear other types of sounds, such as roaring or buzzing
What is Tinnitus?
400
Dracula: Bram Stoker
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley
The Invisible Man: HG Wells
What is Frankenstein?
400
This playwright and former husband of Marilyn Monroe wrote Death of a Salesman in 1949. He also wrote All My Sons in 1947 and The Crucible in 1953.
Who is Arthur Miller?
400
Originally, it was a 1988 movie by John Waters, where Ricki Lake plays an overweight girl who just wanted to dance on the Corny Collins Show. Then they made it a Broadway musical in 2002. Then, just for fun, they took the Broadway musical and made that into a movie in 2007, starring John Travolta, Christopher Walken and Michelle Pfeiffer.
What is Hairspray?
400
Perhaps the most fun of all cooking terms, this means to split poultry by removing the backbone so you can flatten it, resulting in crispier skin and even, quicker cooking.
What is spatchcock?
400
Known as well for his philanthropy and salad dressing as for his handsome face (those eyes, le sigh!), this actor is known for roles like Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butch Cassidy in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the voice of Doc Hudson in Cars. He was married to Joanne Woodward from 1958 until his death in 2008.
Who is Paul Newman?
400
Spanish for Ghost Sucker, this legendary creature was first reported in Puerto Rico in 1995.
What is a chupacabra?
400
The T in the TDAP vaccination, its also called Lock Jaw. You'll want to stay up to date with this shot, usually every 10 years or if you've been poked or scraped with something that may be carrying the bacteria.
What is Tetanus?
500
The Great Gatsby: F Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations: Charles Dickens
All Creatures Great and Small: James Herriot
What is Great Expectations?
500
On April 15, 1947 the Brooklyn Dodger broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball becoming the first African-American player to break into the league in the modern era.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
500
in 1982, this NYC orphan girl sings about a hard-knock life before she gets sprung from the grip of Miss Hannigan to live with Oliver Warbucks. Unwilling to be adopted by Daddy Warbucks till all avenues were exhausted to find her parents, they publicize an award for any information. Hilarity does not ensue.
What is Annie?
500
Mixing flour into a fat (usually butter or lard) to thicken a sauce. According to Rachel Ray, its essential to keep from having a raw flour taste.
What is a Roux?
500
Dear Atticus Finch, you were the cat’s meow. From "The Snows of Kilamanjaro" to "To Kill A Mockingbird," it was hard not to fall in love with this actor's smooth ways. It didn’t hurt that he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom for being an awesome humanitarian. Le sigh!
Who is Gregory Peck?
500
This fire-breathing mishmash of a monster was a lion with a goat's head in the middle of its back and a dragon's head for a tail. Rarely, a human can also fall into this category. In this case, either by way of bone marrow transplant or absorbing a twin in utero, one person can have two completely different genetic makeups.
What is a chimera?
500
This butterfly shaped endocrine gland in the neck regulates the speed of your metabolism as well as heart rate, fertility and body temperature.
What is the thyroid?