Chess About Town
Whisk(e)y in the Jar
Animated
Ever After
Famous 1st Lines
100

d4 d5 c4: although already well-known in the chess world, Netflix made this opening even more widely known

The Queen's Gambit

100

The mixture of grains or mash that bourbon is distilled from must be at least 51% this.

Corn (maize)

100

The Disney Golden Age includes the studio's 1st 5 full-length features. It began with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 and ended with this 1942 film.

Bambi

100

Anyone.

Whoever

100

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

Italo Calvino, If on a winter's night a traveler

200

This tactic could also be handy for a salad.

Fork

200

Scotland's whisky sales account for this percentage of all UK food and drink revenues.

25%

200

While Who Framed Roger Rabbit blended live action and animation, this Ralph Bakshi film tried it again 4 years later.

Cool World

200

When the thermometer goes past 98.6.

Fever

200

It was a pleasure to burn.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

300

Photography and chess share this term, which in chess occurs during the Opening.

Developing

300

A whiskey sour often includes these 4 ingredients.

Bourbon, lemon juice, sugar, egg white

300

This simple animation is often used as a first tutorial for beginners learning the craft.

bouncing ball

300

Quick-witted.

Clever

300

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Stephen King, The Gunslinger

400

The Scholar's Mate is famous for being a 4 move checkmate, but this pattern allows Black to win on their 2nd move.

Fool's Mate

400

This common whisky flavor descriptor one might more closely associate with a car.

kerosene or rubber

400

Known for films like Anastasia & Secret of NIMH among others, Don Bluth was also responsible for this intensely challenging game that has the simple premise of a knight saving a princess.

Dragon's Lair

400

One who may strive to do too much.

Overachiever

400

A screaming comes across the sky.

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

500

The current strongest, and perhaps strongest ever, chess player at the age of 30 is this Norwegian.

Magnus Carlsen

500

During the 13 years of Prohibition, Walgreens grew from 20 to almost 400 stores possibly thanks to this federal loophole.

whisky prescriptions

500

The oldest surviving claymation film is The Sculptor's Nightmare from 1908, but the first feature-length, theatrically-released clay animation film is often cited as this title from 2000.

Chicken Run

500

One who is not convinced.

unbeliever, disbeliever

500

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

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