Incredible Edibles
Facts and Figures
Numb with Numbers
A Day of Pop Culture
Alliterative Phrases
200

The humpback type of this mammal is said to taste like beef, but I'd blubber if you served it to me

the whale

200

Damages for this 2005 disaster have been estimated at $125 billion, not to mention the devastating loss of life

(Hurricane) Katrina

200

One half minus one sixth equals this amount when reduced to its simplest fraction

1/3

200

From a radio he boasted on "Industry Baby" of having "couple Grammys on him, couple plaques"

Lil Nas X

200

Ordinal term for Joe, Jill, Ashley & Hunter, though they don't all live in the White House

The First Family

400

Iowa State Univ.'s Entomology Club once added mealworms to this fried grain that's a staple in Asian restaurants

rice

400

Nothing to boast about, but the state with the most hazardous waste sites, more than 115, is this "Garden State"

New Jersey

400

If the legs of a right triangle are 6 inches & 8 inches, this is the length of the hypotenuse

10 inches

400

Mom sent me a clip of this ABC medical drama that premiered in 2005 but is maintaining its practice in the 2021-22 TV season

Grey's Anatomy

400

After Selection Sunday in 2022, the first four games of this took place in Dayton, OH

March Madness

600

World Book says that the Pilgrims served this snakelike fish at the first Thanksgiving; I'll stick to turkey

eel

600

In the U.S. in 1900 this was 46.3 for males & 48.3 for females; in 2000 it was 74.3 & 79.7

life expectancy

600

There are this many spots total on 2 standard dice

42

600

My niece wanted to watch (again) her favorite movie about this superfast animated critter who got a dental makeover

Sonic the Hedgehog

600

This crusty phrase means a meal is about to be shared

break bread

800

These birds whose young are called cygnets were a "cygnet"ure dish at medieval banquets

swans

800

On the new Airbus A380 plane, the overall length is 239 feet, while this is even longer at 261 feet

the wingspan

800

It's the product of a baker's dozen & the classic number of hills of Rome

91

800

Season 12 of this show was on at the gym & I watched Gigi Goode sashay on the runway

RuPaul's Drag Race

800

A songbird begins this phrase, an early warning of peril

a canary in a coalmine

1000

Warning: if you see tete de veau on a French menu, it's this part of a calf

the head

1000

Yikes! This visible surface of the sun below the chromosphere is about 10,000 degrees F.

the photosphere

1000

A pound & a half of coffee costs $480, so it's this much per ounce

$20

1000

It was late but my film major roommate had to watch this Hitchcock "you kill my dad, I kill your wife" classic & I got sucked in

Strangers on a Train

1000

This literary character was also known as the "Galloping Hessian of the Hollow"

The Headless Horseman

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