Annual Festivals Around the World
Who invented that?
Crossword Clues N
Assassinations
Up for Auction
(famous items that sold at auction)
(famous items that sold at auction)
Songs from Musicals
Potpourri
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La Tomatina is a Spanish festival in Buñol, Spain where participants throw these at each other. It is said to be the biggest food fight in the world. From the festival's origin as a food fight between friends in the 1940s, it has become a famous tourist attraction.
What are tomatoes?
(If you go, please follow some simple rules: Don’t throw hard objects, squash the tomato before throwing it, stay a safe distance away from tomato trucks, and stop when the starter pistol indicates that the hour of mayhem has ended. )
100
Always trying to find the most efficient way to get things done, this founding father and third president invented adjustable table which moved up and down as needed, and the swivel chair, so he could easily move between his adjustable tables.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
7 LETTERS, the unicorn of the sea, an arctic toothed whale that has a long straight tusk
What is a narwhal?
100
Born in a log cabin but destined to save the Union and obliterate slavery, he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 during a performance of My American Cousin at Ford's Theatre.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
With only 4 pairs in existance, the ruby slippers from this movie brought in $32.5 million dollars at an auction in 2024
What is the Wizard of Oz?
100
"You got trouble, right here in River City. Trouble with a capital "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!" in this musical about a con man named Harold Hill.
100
As early as 1901 this U.S. state was described as "The Mitten State."
What is Michigan?
200
Carnival is the largest annual festival in this South American country, celebrated just before lent, but after its brutally hot summers.
What is Brazil?
200
This actor, star of Guys and Dolls, The Godfather and A Streetcar Named Desire, was an avid drummer who, later in life, invented a way to turn a bongo that only required one screw instead of the usual 5 or 6.
Who is Marlon Brando?
200
8 LETTERS - using instruments or a map to figure out directions for a form of transportation
What is NAVIGATE?
200
This popular president was shot and killed as he drove in a presidential motorcade through Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was later murdered, paving the way for several theories as to the motive, none of which have been proven.
Who is JFK?
200
Perhaps one of the most iconic movie moments of all time was when this actress' dress was blown up by the subway in the film 'The Seven Year Itch'. It sold at auction for 4.6 million euros (approx. 5.2 million dollars) in 2011.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
200
In the second half of the musical, Rent! the cast did the math, enough to tell you that there are 525,600 of these in a year.
What is a minute?
200
In 1940, this 164-year-old U.S. document was repaired with Scotch tape.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The international festival celebrating these items, held in Albuquerque every fall, is the largest annual international event held in the U. S.
What are hot air balloons?
300
Noticing that dancers of this specific discipline were having excessive surgeries and pain, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, invented some improvements to the age old toe-shoe design, giving them more support.
What is ballet?
300
6 LETTERS, a cloud of gas or dust in interstellar space
What is a nebula?
300
The assassination of this vaunted military general and dictator of Rome was carried out on March 15, 44 BC, a date better known as the Ides of March, when in the midst of a calculated melee he was stabbed 23 times by his own senators.
Who is Julius Caesar?
300
The most expensive piece of literature to appear at an auction, his First Folio was published in 1623 and contains a collection of 36 plays, including 18 that weren’t published at the time.
Who is Shakespeare?
300
Miss Adelaide sings "I love you, a bushel and a peck" with her Hotbox dancers backing her up in this musical about two gamblers and the women they love.
What is Guys and Dolls?
300
Among the first women selected to become these in 1978 were Anna Fisher & Shannon Lucid.
What are astronauts?
400
This started as a wedding feast in Munich in 1810 and is now one of the city's largest festivals, bringing in about 6 million beer lovers each fall.
What is Oktoberfest?
400
This famous band leader, accordionist and host of his own eponymous show fron 1951-1982 invented an ashtray that looked like his signature accordion.
Who is Lawrence Welk?
400
9 LETTERS, wicked or villanous
What is NEFARIOUS?
400
This human rights activist and Muslim ministerwas shot onstage at the Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965 by two men armed with semi-automatic handguns and one with a sawed-off shotgun. He had been the target of death threats since 1964.
Who is Malcolm X?
400
Trying to capitalize on the dreary winter weather in Rotherham, England, an eBay auctioner took a picture of his wintery backgarden under the description "6ft (one of these), requires assembly."
What is a snowman?
400
Taking stories from the dancers who lived it, this play features songs like "At The Ballet", "One" and, my personal favorite, "Dance Ten, Looks Three."
400
Unlike porcupine quills, the spikes of this animal are neither barbed nor poisonous. Before they picked up the name we currently know them by, they were called Urchins. Babies still are.
What are hedgehogs?
500
On December 5 in Central Europe, pn the night before the feast of St Nicholas, they celebrate this demon who kidnaps the bad children, beats them with birch rods and puts them in a sack to devour them later.
Who is Krampus?
500
Along with characters like Tom Sawyer and Aunt Polly, this writer also invented the bra strap (though he wanted to use it to hold his pants up) and the self-sticking scrapbook page.
Who is Mark Twain?
500
11 LETTERS; the branch of medicine that deals with the care, development and diseases of newborns
What is NEONATOLOGY?
500
Often cited as the event that sparked World War I, his assination was carried out by Black Hand initiate Gavrilo Princip on Sunday, June 18, 1914, after a motorcade he was in was briefly stopped on a side street in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegova.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
500
In 2000 a man from North Carolina discovered the answer to this philosophical question and decided to sell it on eBay. Curiously, it was worth only $3.26.
What is the meaning of life?
500
In this show, Tevye sings "If I Were A Rich Man" listing all the things he would do if, in fact, he were a rich man. Servants and finery for his wife, a big house with chickens, all the good stuff.
What is Fiddler on the Roof?
500
Sacramento and Fresno, both in California, have a newspaper in the top 100 in circulation named for this insect.
What is a Bee?