Team Rice Game 2

Authors

100

^{He authored the Grapes of Wrath.}

^{Who is John Steinbeck.}

200

^{This author lived in Key West between 1931 -1939.}

^{Who is Ernest Hemingway.}

300

^{This British author wrote a Tale of Two Cities in 1859.}

^{Who is Charles Dickens.}

400

_{Alice Walker wrote this novel  which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.}

^{What is "The Color Purple."}

500

_{He wrote the 18-stanza poem -  in which he mourned the loss of his beloved Lenore.}

_{Who is Edgar Allan Poe.} 

Animals

100

^{The largest group of mammals by far. More than one-third of all mammals are this.}

^{What is a rodent.}

200

^{A female donkey is called this.}

^{What is a Jenny.}

300

^{Belted Galloway and Belgian Blue are breeds of which animal?}

^{What is a Cow.}

400

^{This mammal has no vocal cords.}

^{What is a giraffe.}

500

Because of their relative lack of sweat glands, this animal often controls their body temperature using behavioral thermoregulation.

^{What is a pig.}

Potpourri

100

_{Jelly is made from fruit juice while this is made from crushed fruit.}

_{What is jam.}

200

_{We all know of the 13 colonies which broke away from England.  This state was the 14th to be admitted - in 1791.}

_{What is Vermont.}

300

_{Moll's gland, also known as the gland of Moll or the ciliary gland, is a small sweat gland that can be found in what six-letter part of the human body?}

^{What is the eyelid.}

400

^{This organ contains seven bones, including the sphenoid, lacrimal and palatine.}

^{What is the eye.}

500

^{These are fruits with a fleshy outer layer and a hard shell (endocarp) surrounding a seed, while true nuts are dry fruits with a hard shell enclosing a single seed}

^{What is a drupe.}

Sports

100

^{Known as "Mick the Quick," he played in the MLB for 15 seasons, winning two World Series rings.  Played for both Yankees and Rangers.}

^{Micky Rivers}

200

^{This is the last college basketball team to finish a season undefeated.}

^{Who are the Indiana Hoosiers - 1976.}

300

_{These are the only two NBA players to have a career average of 30+ points per game.}

^{Who are Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain.}

400

_{This athlete qualified in five events for the 1932 Olympics.}

_{Who is Babe Didrikson.}

500

This competitive strength sport consists of three attempts at maximum weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift.

What is Powerlifting.

Psychology

100

_{This is the term for the tendency to seek out information that confirms one’s pre-existing beliefs?}

_{What is Confirmation Bias.}

200

Pavlov's experiments with dogs were focused on this type of learning - where an organism learns to associate a neutral stimulus with a naturally occurring stimulus, leading to a learned response to the previously neutral stimulus

What is Classical Conditioning.

300

_{This is the term for a person’s unique combination of behavioral, emotional, and cognitive patterns?}

_{What is personality.}

400

^{A propensity that is inherited rather than learned, such as nest-building in wasps?}

^{What is an instinct.}

500

^{Gymnophobia is the fear of what?}

^{What is nudity.}