GREEN
THAT'S MY SECRET
IN MY RECORD COLLECTION
IT'S ALL ONIONS
GOING FROM FIRST TO THIRD
200

In 1836 Charles Green set a record by traveling 480 miles via this conveyance from London to Germany in under 18 hours

a hot air balloon

200

The executive chef of this chain made its secret-for-decades "special sauce" on YouTube in 2012; mayo was involved

McDonald's

200

This group's "The Dark Side of the Moon"

Pink Floyd
200

Botanically, an onion includes this type of thickened, underground plant 

a bulb

200

In a holiday song, this title precedes "the angels did say, was to certain poor shepherds in fields as they lay" Geppetto carved him from a piece of talking wood

"The First Noel"

400

"Let's Stay Together" & enjoy the romantic & religious songs of this great vocalist

Al Green

400

In 1942 Gen. Leslie Groves was put in charge of this super-secret "Project" that would forever change the world 3 years later

the Manhattan Project

400

This Beatles album, on whose cover John is wearing white & Paul is barefoot

Abbey Road
400

Great for making onion rings, this variety from Hawaii is sweet, juicy & comes to market in the spring

Maui Onions

400

You give someone this phrase when you use extreme methods to extract a confession out of them

the third degree

600

In 1864 at Caledonia, New York, Seth Green built the USA's first of these places for fish to be born

hatcheries

600

The motto of the British circle of these performers is "Indocilis Privata Loqui" ("not apt to disclose secrets")

magicians

600

"The Best of" this singer-songwriter, including his classic "American Pie"

Don McLean

600

If you travel to Yaroslavl in Russia, you'll see plenty of the architectural feature called onion these

domes

600

Bo Jackson & Bob Dole are famous for illeism, using this when talking about themselves; it can help kids with speech impediments

the third person
800

With his partner Betty Comden, Adolph Green wrote the screenplay for this Gene Kelly musical about the silent film era

Singin' in the Rain

800

In 2013 Barack Obama became the first president to mention this secretive place in Nevada by name

Area 51

800

This jazz trumpeter's "Birth of the Cool"

Miles Davis

800

When you chop them, onions make your eyes water because they contain compounds of this element also found in gunpowder

sulfur

800

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "There are no" these "in American lives"

second acts

1000

Cecil Howard Green helped transform a Dallas geophysics company into the electronics giant now known by this name

Texas Instruments

1000

This secret society at Yale was formed in 1832, possibly after a dispute with Phi Beta Kappa

Skull and Bones

1000

Her French song "La Vie En Rose", on an old 78

Edith Piaf

1000

This late American chef & food writer said that onion sandwiches were one of the greatest treats he knew

 

James Beard

1000

The U.K.'s House of Commons uses this 4-word electoral system where a simple majority of votes determines the winner of the race

first past the post

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