Well-known Tasmanian-born leading lady who launched her entertainment career under the name of Queenie O'Brien.
Who is Merle Oberon?
100
Room in the average American home that is the scene of the greatest number of arguments.
What is the kitchen?
100
The distance between bases on a little league baseball field.
What is 60 feet?
100
The part of the brain that regulates physiological stability.
What is the hypothalamus?
200
Clark Kent's high school sweetheart
Who is Lana Lang?
200
Yves Montand was born in this country.
What is Italy?
200
Current name of the town that was formerly Hot Springs, New Mexico, that was re-named in 1960 by its citizens in honor of a popular radio show.
What is Truth or Consequences?
200
First sport in which women were invited to compete at the Olympics.
What is tennis?
200
Location of the ossicles.
What is the ear?
300
Novel containing the longest sentence in literature
What is Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, with 823 words
300
The real names of Beau Brummel and Beau Geste.
What are George and Michael?
Brummel was George
Geste was Michael
300
Names of the two landmark stone lions sitting in front of the New York Public Libaray at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in New York City.
What are Patience and Fortitude?
(Names were given by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.)
300
In cross-country bike racing, what the initials BMX stand for.
What is bicycle moto x (cross)?
300
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Term for a series of uncontrollable intakes of air caused by sudden spasms of the diaphragm.
What are hiccups?
400
Famous book that begins: "Chug, chug, chug. Puff, puff, puff."
What is The Little Engine That Could?
400
Famous actor who prepared for a career in psychiatry - studying and working with pioneer psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler - before he turned to performing.
Who is Peter Lorre?
400
Time - in months - the average American motorist spends during his lifetime waiting for red lights to turn green.
What are six months?
400
In 1939, the famous American athlete who starred on UCLA's undefeated football team and was the top scorer in the Pacific Coast Conference for basketball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
(He later gained national fame playing professional baseball.)
400
The part of the eye that contains about 137 million light-sensitive cells in one square inch.
What is the retina?
500
Actor and one-time New York Yankee batboy who portrayed Babe Ruth in the 1948 movie biography of the Sultan of Swat.
Who is William Bendix?
500
Borden is the name of a county in Texas. The name of that County's county seat.
What is Gail?
(for Gail Borden, the man who brought us condensed milk, but only after drawing the first topographical map of Texas and surveying and laying out the city of Galveston.)
500
After retiring as a player, Babe Ruth spent one year coaching this team.
What is The Brooklyn Dodgers?
(in 1938)
500
The organ in the body that stores excess sugar as glycogen.