LAND OF "IA"
SEPTEMER
FUNNY SMELLS
COMEDIC DUOS
MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD
DINOSAURS
400
THE FOURTEEN OTHER COUNTRIES BORDERED BY THIS NATION STRETCH FROM FINLAND TO NORTH KOREA
WHAT IS RUSSIA?
400
IN A FAMOUS CLIP FROM YOUTUBE'S SERIES OF "GAME SHOW FAILS," A FAMILY FEUD CONTESTANT MISTAKENLY SAID THAT SEPTEMBER IS THE MONTH A PERSON LOOKS THE MOST THIS
WHAT IS PREGNANT?
400
WHEN THIS PROCESS OCCURS IN HUMANS, SOME OF THE SMELLS EMITTED ARE THE RESULT OF CHEMICALS KNOWN AS PUTRESCINE AND CADAVERINE
WHAT IS DEATH?
400
TWO OF THE HIGHEST NAMES IN FEMALE COMEDIC DUOS ARE TINA FEY AND THIS STAR OF PARKS AND RECREATION
WHO IS AMY POEHLER?
400
A POWERFUL PAIN RELIEVER, THE VENOM OF THE KING VARIETY OF THIS SNAKE SEEN HERE GOES $153,000 A GALLON
WHAT IS A COBRA?
400
THE NUMBER OF CONTINENTS ON WHICH DINOSAUR FOSSILS HAVE NOT BEEN DISCOVERED
WHAT IS ZERO?
800
THIS NATION HAS MORE ACTIVE VOLCANOES THAN ANY OTHER IN THE WORLD, ITS LARGEST AND MOST FAMOUS BEING KRAKATOA
WHAT IS INDONESIA?
800
A SAD DAY IN POP CULTURE OCCURED IN SEPTEMBER OF 1955 WHEN THIS ACTOR DIED IN A CAR ACCIDENT
WHO IS JAMES DEAN?
800
THIS PHRASE OFTEN MISTAKENLY ASSOCIATED WITH MARIE ANTOINETTE MAY HAVE ITS ORIGINS IN THE FACT THAT THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES IS SAID TO CONTAIN A SWEET SMELL
WHAT IS "LET THEM EAT CAKE!"?
800
THE FIRST ACCLAIMED INTERRACIAL COMEDY DUO CONSISTED OF RICHARD PRYOR AND THIS COMIC WHO STARRED ALONGSIDE HIM IN THE 1980 FILM "SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL"
WHO IS GENE WILDER?
800
LEAVES OF A TREE OF WHICH THERE ARE ONLY SIX IN EXISTENCE MAKE THE CHINESE DA HONG PAO VARIETY OF THIS THE MOST EXPENSIVE BEVERAGE IN THE WORLD
WHAT IS TEA?
800
IT'S LARGELY BELIEVED TO BE DISPROVEN THAT THE DINOSAURS WENT EXTINCT FOLLOWING AN ASTEROID CRASH ON THIS MEXICAN PENINSULA
WHAT IS THE YUCATAN PENINSULA?
1200
THIS NATION BEGAN ITS CIVIL WAR IN 2011 UNDER THE ASSAD REGIME; IT HAS YET TO END
WHAT IS SYRIA?
1200
ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1996, RAPPER TUPAC SHAKUR WAS MURDERED ON THE STREETS OF THIS CITY
WHAT IS LAS VEGAS?
1200
DRUG SNIFFING DOGS OFTEN LOCATE HEROIN DUE TO THE SMELL OF THIS SUBSTANCE, OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH APPLE CIDER, THAT IS A BY-PRODUCT OF THE DRUG
WHAT IS VINEGAR?
1200
SUBJECTS SUCH AS FREE LOVE AND DRUGS...LOTS AND LOTS OF DRUGS... WERE TACKLED IN THIS DUO'S 1978 FILM "UP IN SMOKE"
WHO ARE CHEECH (MARIN) & (TOMMY) CHONG?
1200
THIS RADIOACTIVE ELEMENT, TWO AFTER URANIUM ON THE PERIODIC TABLE, IS 70 TIMES MORE EXPENSIVE THAN GOLD
WHAT IS PLUTONIUM?
1200
THE LARGEST AND BEST PRESERVED DINOSAUR FOSSIL IS ON DISPLAY AT THE FIELD MUSEUM IN THIS CITY
WHAT IS CHICAGO?
1600
"IT'S A HOLIDAY IN" THIS COUNTRY WHO SUFFERED UNDER THE KHMER ROUGE IN THE 1970s
WHAT IS CAMBODIA?
1600
ONLY SIX CASUALTIES WERE SUFFERED IN THE SEPTEMBER 1666 'GREAT FIRE' OF THIS MAJOR CITY
WHAT IS LONDON?
1600
ON APRIL 14, 1912, PASSENGERS ABOARD THIS VESSEL BEGAN COMPLAINING OF A "MINERAL ODOR WITH A METALLIC EDGE"
WHAT IS THE TITANIC?
1600
WALTER MATTHAU AND THIS COMIC WERE AN ICONIC DUO OF THE 1960s; THEY APPEARED TOGETHER DECADES LATER IN TWO 'GRUMPY OLD MEN' FILMS
WHO IS JACK LEMMON?
1600
THE RAREST GEM IN THE WORLD, THE RED VARIETY OF THIS SEEN HERE, HAS A PRICE TAG OF--YIKES! ROUGHLY $8 MILLION PER CARAT
WHAT IS A DIAMOND?
1600
SOME DINOSAURS WERE AS LARGE AS BUILDINGS, SUCH AS THIS ONE WHOSE NAME COMES FROM THE GREEK 'ARM LIZARD,' THAT STOOD UP TO 75 FEET
WHAT IS THE BRACHIOSAURUS?
2000
YUGOSLAVIA'S CAPITAL CITY OF BELGRADE IS NOW THE CAPITAL OF THIS NATION, THE LARGEST NATION OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
WHAT IS SERBIA?
2000
IN SEPTEMBER 1938, THE THIRD REICH OFFICIALLY ANNEXED THE PROVINCE OF SUDETENLAND FROM THIS NEIGHBORING NATION
WHAT IS CZECHOSLOVAKIA?
2000
IN MEDIEVAL TIMES, ITALIANS WROTE OF "ODORE DI SANTITA," OR THE "ODOR OF" THIS, WHICH WAS DESCRIBED AS THE OPPOSITE OF THE SMELL OF SULFUR
WHAT IS SANCTITY OR SAINTHOOD?
2000
CHRIS FARLEY AND DAVID SPADE, SNL ALUMS, HAD THEIR FIRST COLLABORATION IN THIS 1995 CULT CLASSIC
WHAT IS 'TOMMY BOY'?
2000
A GRAM OF THIS ELEMENT NAMED FOR A EUROPEAN COUNTRY, THE LAST TO BE DISCOVERED IN NATURE, COSTS ABOUT $1 BILLION--DESPITE ITS PRICE TAG, IT HAS PROVEN USEFUL IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF CERTAIN CANCERS
WHAT IS FRANCIUM?
2000
RESEARCHERS SUGGEST THAT THIS PLATED DINOSAUR SEEN HERE WAS THE LEAST INTELLIGENT
WHAT IS A STEGOSAURUS?
2400
THE MOVEMENT KNOWN AS THE ARAB SPRING BEGAN IN 2010 IN THIS NORTHERNMOST NATION OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT
WHAT IS TUNISIA?
2400
WHEN THIS WAS OFFICIALLY ISOLATED IN SEPTEMBER 1928, IT WAS DUBBED THE "MIRACLE DRUG"
WHAT IS PENICILLIN?
2400
THE PENETRATING SMELLS OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PYRAMIDS ARE THAT OF THESE TWO INCENSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE BIRTH OF CHRIST
WHAT ARE FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH?
2400
STAN AND OLIVER ARE THE FIRST NAMES OF THIS COMEDIC DUO, CONSIDERED BY MANY THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME
WHO ARE LAUREL & HARDY?
2400
MOVE OVER BLACK TRUFFLES--THE MOST EXPENSIVE MEMBER OF THIS KINGDOM OF ORGANISMS ARE THE CATERPILLAR VARIETY SEEN HERE; THEY'RE ABOUT $110 PER GRAM
WHAT ARE FUNGI?
2400
THE EXTINCTION OF THE DINOSAURS IS BELIEVED TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE DURING THIS GEOLOGIC PERIOD
WHAT IS THE CRETEACEOUS PERIOD?
2800
THIS "SAINTLY" NATION OF THE CARIBBEAN WAS KNOWN AS IYONOLA TO ITS NATIVE ARAWOK POPULATION
WHAT IS ST. LUCIA?
2800
DESMOND TUTU WAS OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED AS THE ARCHBISHOP OF THIS CHRISTIAN DENOMINATION OF SOUTH AFRICA IN SEPTEMBER 1986
WHAT IS THE ANGLICAN CHURCH?
2800
HYDROGEN CYANIDE, A NOT SO PLEASANT SUBSTANCE, HAS PLEASANTLY BEEN DESCRIBED TO HAVE THE SCENT OF THESE NUTS
WHAT ARE ALMONDS?
2800
THEY'RE THE ICONIC DUO SEEN HERE
WHO ARE DEAN MARTIN AND JERRY LEWIS?
2800
IN 1999, NASA ESTIMATED THAT A SINGLE GRAM OF THESE PARTICLES PRODUCED IN A PARTICLE ACCELERATOR WOULD COST $68 TRILLION!
WHAT IS ANTIMATTER?
2800
SILHOUETTED DINOSAUR CLAWS GRIPPING A BASKETBALL CAN BE SEEN IN THE LOGO OF THIS NBA TEAM
WHO ARE THE TORONTO RAPTORS?