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Hans Christian Andersen
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Anagrams of Musical Instruments
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Potpourri
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This skater was accused of planning the attack on her chief rival, Nancy Kerrigan prior to the 1994 Winter Olympics, something she has consistently denied.
Who is Tonya Harding?
100
The Princess and the Pea was adapted into this Broadway musical in 1959, starring Carol Burnett in her first starring role.
What is Once Upon a Mattress?
100
Space Camp is an educational camp located on the grounds of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in this Alabama City. It provides educational programs for children and adults on topics such as space exploration, aviation, and robotics.
What is Huntsville?
100
Aug 8, 1911 - the millionth of these was filed for in the US, for a tubeless vehicle tire.
What is a patent?
100
Located in Idaho, the Hall of Fame dedicated to this tuber feature exhibits including the world's largest crisp, donated by Pringles.
What is the potato?
100
Fought largely in the 1880s, a feud pitted this family from Logan County, WV, against this family from Pike County, KY. Bad blood between the rival clans led to significant violence, mayhem, and murder.
Who are the Hatfields and McCoys?
100
Medium sized member of this bent-brass family of woodwinds. ROXANNE HOPES TO . . .
What is the TENOR SAXOPHONE?
100
Despite how we use them in cooking, culinarily, these foods with varieties like Manzanilla, Gaeta and Kalamata, are technically a stone fruit.
What are olives?
100
Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer, Do. This was the first song sung by a computer, in 1961.
What is A Bicycle Built for Two?
200
In 2015, this clever portmanteau was given to a scandal involving allegations that quarterback Tom Brady and the New England Patriots intentionally using flatter footballs during the AFC Championship Game.
What is Deflate-gate?
200
According to the HCA tale, a poor, barefoot young girl who freezes to death on New Year's Eve while trying to sell these.
What are Matches?
200
The earliest documented celebrations of this spring holiday started in 1703 by French settlers in Mobile, AL 15 years before New Orleans was even founded.
What is Mardi Gras?
200
Aug 6 1881 - scientist and discoverer of this antibiotic, Alexander Fleming was born in Darvel, Ayrshire, Scotland
What is Penicillin?
200
Located in Peru, Indiana, the hall of fame for this performing art includes inductees such as the Wallendas, the Baileys and PT Barnum.
What is the Circus?
200
For the rest of his life, this author of The Hobbit complained that Walt Disney had commercialized and infantilized once-serious folklore fables, with horrible adaptions of them. Disney had made folk stories accessible to the general public, taken them away from the nerds who might really appreciate them.
Who is JRR Tolkien?
200
6 strings, no amp needed. AUTISTIC COUGAR
What is Acoustic Guitar?
200
A single recessive gene determines whether a peach has fuzz or if it turns into this smooth skinned cousin.
What is a nectarine?
fun fact - Aldrin and Armstrong brought peaches with them to the moon, making them the first food eaten there (you know, by humans)
200
These two gymnastic events are performed by both men and women.
What are floor and vault?
300
This NFL player was convicted in 2007 of running an illegal dogfighting ring, leading to a 21 month prison sentence and a temporary suspension from football.
Who is Michael Vick?
300
In the Disney version of the Little Mermaid, Ariel marries Prince Eric and lives happily ever after. In the HCA version, her prince marries another and the mermaid dissolves into this.
What is seafoam?
300
This legendary fictional character was created by Harper Lee and based on an Alabama lawyer, politician, and newspaper editor named Amasa Coleman Lee.
Who is Atticus Finch?
300
On Aug 4 1693, this Benedictine monk was credited with inventing champagne.
Who is Dom Pierre Perignon?
300
Established in 1992 "to recognize athletes, artists, announcers and coaches for their extraordinary achievements and memorable performances", a walk of fame was installed at this venue located in Midtown Manhattan.
What is Madison Square Garden?
300
If you’d lived in Twain’s time, you definitely would have known about his vendetta against this governmental agency, which he thought was expensive and inefficient.
What is the Post Office?
300
A larger cousin of the xylophone featuring wooden bars with resonant tubes underneath, producing a deeper, warmer sound. MAMA RIB
What is a MARIMBA?
300
Drupes can be categorized as either Freestone (where the pit comes away from the flesh easily) or this, where the pit holds firmly to the flesh
What is Clingstone?
300
Currently an internet sensation, this wild raccoon lives in Seattle and has an unusual gait, probably due to a spinal deformity. The Seattle Mariners hosted a tribute game night to him on Aug. 5 with t-shirts and rookie baseball cards.
Who is Jimothy?
400
In 1980, at age 26, Rosie Ruiz was stripped of her medal for winning this race when it was discovered that she joined the race only one mile from the finish line.
What is the Boston Marathon?
400
In this story by Hans Christian Andersen, a Chinese emperor prefers a flashy, fake mechanical bird over the real thing.
What is the Nightingale?
400
Also known as the Red Tails, America's first Black military pilots and support personnel, trained in this city in Alabama, and helped end military segregation.
What is Tuskeegee?
400
August 5, 1895: these two future Nobel Prize winners were married in France, beginning a legendary scientific partnership that led to the discovery of radium and polonium
Who are the Curies?
400
The Avenue of Stars in London is the UK equivalent to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The first inductee onto the Avenue of Stars was Jimmy Page, guitarist for this band.
What is Led Zeppelin?
400
Harry Anslinger, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, despised jazz and targeted Black musicians, specifically viewing this singer of Strange Fruit and God Bless The Child as a threat.
Who is Billie Holiday?
400
Machine that electronically generates and modifies sounds, often connected to a computer. RITZY SHEENS
What is a SYNTHESIZER?
400
Botanically speaking, this is not a true nut but a fibrous single-seeded drupe (also called a dry drupe). The hard outer shell is the pit and the white meat and water inside the hard shell are there to feed the internal embryo.
What is coconut?
400
Artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (Cash to family and friends) is best known for painting this animal into distinctly human situations.
What are dogs?
500
This U.S. swimmer falsely claimed they was robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro, later admitting it was all a lie and receiving a 10-month suspension.
Who is Ryan Lochte?
500
In the 1838 tale, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, the titular soldier falls in love with this character. No matter what peril befalls him, he remains resolute in his love for her.
Who is the Paper Ballerina?
500
Music studios in this Alabama town created a unique southern mix of R&B, soul, rock, and pop was driven by visionary producer Rick Hall and the iconic house band known as the Swampers.
What is Muscle Shoals?
500
August 11, 1877: Asaph Hall discovered Deimos, the smaller and outermost of this planet's two moons
What is Mars?
500
The American Jazz Walk of Fame is located in this Midwest city, in the Jazz District on 18th and Vine sharing space with the Negro League Baseball Museum.
What is Kansas City, MO?
500
Beginning in the late 19th century, The War of the Currents centered on the clash between Thomas Edison's belief in Direct Current and this inventor's belief in the use of Alternating Current.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
500
A percussion instrument, popular in jugbands, made from a ribbed metal in a wooden frame. SHADOW BAR
What is a Washboard?
500
These tiny red tropical stonefruits taste like a cross between a watermelon and a strawberry, can be clingstone or freestone, come from Southeast Asia and are the fruit of a slow-growing evergreen tree.
What is a Lychee?
500
This medieval unit of time is classified as 1.5 minutes long.
What is a Moment?