"ICK"Y WORDS
FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD
NOTHING "BUT"
COWBOY SONGS
Comedy
100
This pivoted device supports a bicycle or motorcycle when not in use
Kickstand
100
Created by C.W. Post in 1897, this breakfast cereal does not contain either of the two components in its name
Grape-Nuts
Created in 1897 by C.W. Post, it was named for the "grape sugar" (glucose) formed during the baking process and its nutty flavor.
100
Examples include the two-tailed pasha & the zebra swallowtail
butterflies
100
A seldom heard later verse of this song goes:
"Oh I love those wild flowers in this dear land of ours"
"Home On The Range"
100
Who was considered to be the first stand-up comedian?
Mark Twain
200
For years, advertisers have asked us to do this to "your Bic" lighter
flick
200
Macadamias were originally native to this continent
Australia
200
These gothic architectural supports can be "clasping" or "flying"
buttresses
200
Dale Evans wrote the lyrics to this song that says:
"Until we meet again"
"Happy Trails"
200
Who was the first woman to perform stand up comedy on The Tonight Show?
Phyllis Diller
300
Last name of the golfing great who was the first to twice win the British Open, Masters, PGA & U.S. Open
(Jack) Nicklaus
300
The Red Delicious apple was originally called the Hawkeye apple; it was developed in an orchard in this state
Iowa
The Hawkeye Apple is the genuine, original strain of the Red Delicious apple, discovered as a chance seedling in Peru, Iowa, in the 1870s by farmer Jesse Hiatt.
300
He was Secretary of Agriculture under Nixon & Ford
Earl Butz
300
It’s where Gene Autry was in the title of his theme song:
"Out where a friend is a friend"
"Back In The Saddle (Again)"
300
What comedian started their career by performing in a lion costume?
Bob Hope
400
It's a billy club carried by a policeman
a nightstick
400
The name of these sugar, egg white & coconut cookies comes from the same root word as a paste
macaroons
Italian Roots: The name comes from the Italian word maccherone, meaning a fine paste. The recipe started in Italian monasteries during the Renaissance
400
Of the genus Ranunculus, this grassland wild plant has large yellow flowers
a buttercup
400
A dying cowboy made this request:
"These words came low and mournfully"
bury me not on the lone prairie
400
Who was the first stand-up comedian to be featured on a U.S. postage stamp?
Lucille Ball
500
These long bloomers were once worn by women & girls as underwear
knickers
500
Texas grows a Texas-sized amount of blue corn, often used to make these unleavened flat breads
tortillas
500
Romeo's 2-word interjection when Juliet appears at her window
but soft
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?" in Act 2, Scene 2 of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
500
In this song, a cowpuncher in a hurry sings:
"It’s your misfortune and none of my own"
"Get Along Little Dogies"
500
What comedian started their career as a door-to-door salesperson?
Johnny Carson
