Feelin' Fruity
These delicious fruits which can be found on Sakai Farms are said to be 75% plum and 25% apricot.
What is a pluot?
Chiron, which shares properties of a comet & an asteroid, is this type of "object" named for the type of creature Chiron was in Greek myth.
What is a centaur?
Bill Murray is weatherman Phil Connors in this time-loop film--what has become widely recognized as the best of its archetype.
What is Groundhog Day?
In 2022, the US saw one of these major labor disputes by railroad workers, not unlike what we saw in 1877 and 1894.
What is a strike?
2016 marked the first and only time that a South American country has hosted the Games, with this city holding the honor.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
This plant substance contains male gametes that, when crossed with a female ovule, can be used to hybridize a fruit or vegetable.
What is pollen?
In 1959 the Russian Space Probe Luna 3 took the first photos of this hidden "dark" hemisphere
What is the far/dark side of the moon?
As a part of the All-American Ping Pong team, Forrest Gump travelled to this country to compete in the sport.
What is China?
It is estimated that up to 90% of the workers who built the railroads were recruited from this country.
What is China?
The only times the Olympics have been outright cancelled were in 1916, 1940, and 1944, due to these.
What are the World Wars?
The most commonly hybridized fruits--stone fruits, such as peaches, plums, cherries, and apricots--are of this genus of tree, Latin in origin.
What is the prunus?
The photosphere is the surface of this as seen from Earth.
What is the Sun?
In Pulp Fiction, Vincent (John Travolta) tells his partner Jules (Samuel L Jackson) about France, telling him that at French McDonald's, they call a "quarter-pounder with cheese" this.
What is a royale with cheese?
The original "Ticket to Ride" board game spanned this continent.
What is North America?
Women were first allowed to compete in the Games in 1900, but it wasn't until this year in London that all participating countries sent female athletes to represent them in competition.
What is 2012?
Grown in the Zuck backyard, this variety of nectaplum is the original nectaplum, and said to be unparalleled in flavor.
What is a spice zee nectaplum?
Due to their composition, Jovian planets like Jupiter and Saturn are called these "giants"
In Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr David Bowman gets locked out of the spacecraft by this sentient supercomputer, making for an iconic film line where Bowman pleads, "open the pod bay doors."
Who is HAL?
The Pacific Railway Act passed by Congress in 1862 granted permission to and financially incentivized 2 companies to begin construction on the Transcontinental Railroad. Central Pacific Railroad was hired to forge the path east from Sacramento. This other company, who ultimately "won" the race to meet in the middle by laying hundreds of miles of more track, started in Iowa and trekked west.
What is Union Pacific Railroad?
DAILY DOUBLE
In the 4th century AD, Emperor Theodosius I banned all pagan festivals, including the Olympics. It stayed that way for over 1,000 years, until this century when the modern Olympics that we know, were revived in Greece.
Floyd Zaiger, widely recognized as the "most prolific stone fruit breeder in the modern era" came from the tutelage of this horticulturist, who himself is the namesake of a South Sacramento high school.
Who is Luther Burbank?
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Once called the largest asteroid in our solar system, it was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006.
In Citizen Kane, publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane's final word before his death is this; many suggesting it refers to the last time the character was truly happy.
What is rosebud?
Tick tock! Due to the importance of the train schedule, the transcontinental railroad expansion made it essential for nationwide schedule standardization, so it wasn't until 1883 that the 4 of these that we know of today were widely enacted in the US.
What are time zones?
At the 1968 Mexico City games, track stars Tommie Smith and John Carlos each raised a fist as a "human rights salute" after their podium finishes and during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. A statue at this American university commemorates this moment in history.
What is San Jose State University?