Poetry
A literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.
What is poetry?
An annual celebration honoring the achievements of the environmental movement and raising awareness of the importance of long-term ecological sustainability.
What is Earth Day?
A West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, originally spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England.
What is English?
A stringed musical instrument, with a fretted fingerboard, typically incurved sides, and six or twelve strings, played by plucking or strumming with the fingers or a plectrum.
What is a guitar?
A colorless volatile flammable liquid that is produced by the natural fermentation of sugars and is the intoxicating constituent of wine, beer, spirits, and other drinks, and is also used as an industrial solvent and as fuel.
What is alcohol?
In this state it is illegal for a single woman to skydive on Sunday.
What is Florida?
Who is Maya Angelou?
In his State of the Union address of 1970, this president stated, "Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of this country." He would go on to be the first President to recognize Earth Day.
Who is Richard Nixon?
With acclaimed literary successes like, "A Christmas Carol", "Oliver Twist", and "A Tale of Two Cities", this man is viewed as one of the great English writers of all time.
Who is Charles Dickens?
With songs like, "Voodoo Child", "The Wind Cries Mary", and "Purple Haze", the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame referred to this guitarist as the "greatest instrumentalist of all time".
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
This crew member started bar tending at the Alpine in 1999.
Who is Tom?
In this state, you can't legally walk into a bar with a fish.
What is California?
This is the city where Edgar Allan Poe is buried.
What is Baltimore, Maryland?
According to ListShack, which compiled data on eco-friendly features like LEED-certified buildings, bike lanes, and farmers' markets, this is the greenest city in the USA.
What is Austin, Texas?
With 98.57% of the country speaking English, this small Caribbean island country has the highest percentage of English speakers out of all countries in the world.
Where is Barbados?
The guitar probably originated in this country during the early 16th century, deriving from the guitarra latina, a late-medieval instrument with a waisted body and four strings.
Since 1999, and drinking more 143.3 liters per capita, this country consumes the most beer.
What is the Czech Republic?
The first hockey pucks used in early outdoor ice hockey were made of this.
What is cow dung?
During his era (1564-1616), poetry was fashionable to write, but not profitable. He would go on to write over 350 poems, though his notoriety came from his playwriting.
Who is William Shakespeare?
In spring 1970, congress created Earth Day as a way to force environmental issues onto the national agenda. Twenty million Americans demonstrated in different U.S. cities, and it worked! In December 1970, Congress authorized the creation of what new federal agency to tackle environmental issues.
What is the Environment Protection Agency or EPA?
The first printed book in English was published by William Caxton and Colard Mansion in Belgium in 1473. This was Raoul Lefevre's The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, a courtly romance. It was translated from this language.
What is French?
The first ancient records of a lute-like stringed instrument appeared in 3500-3200 BCE in Mesopotamia or in current day, this country.
What is Iraq?
Originally used as a medicine, both as an internal anesthetic and an external antibiotic. Distilling techniques were brought to Ireland and Scotland sometime between 1100 and 1300 by monks. Since wine was not easily obtained there, barley beer was distilled into a liquor which became this liquor.
What is whiskey?
Marilyn Monroe's natural hair color was this.
What is red?
Francis Thompson's poem, "At Lord's" is about this English bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players.
This year on Earth Day, ahead of their game against the Dodgers, this MLB team celebrated their transition to 100% renewable energy at Petco Park.
Who are the San Diego Padres?
This English word means an illegal position ahead of the ball, commonly used in football, rugby, and hockey.
What is offsides?
An expert on the slopes or in the half-pipe, this athlete has dazzled spectators with Big Air at the X Games and the Olympics. But the talented snow boarder has also played on the Lallapalooza stage with his dreamy rock group.
Who is Shaun White?
In this song, which features heavy guitar playing, the singer, "toasted you, said honey, we may be through, but you'll never hear me complain".
What is Friends in Low Places by Garth Brooks?
This children's toy was banned in Indonesia for "stimulating passion".
What is the hula hoop?
This film is a 1989 American teen comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams. Set in 1959 at the fictional elite conservative Vermont boarding school it tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry.
What is the Dead Poets Society?
This 1992 animated musical fantasy film stars the voices of Tim Curry, Robin Williams, and Christian Slater. Set in an Australian rainforest inhabited by fairies including Crysta, who accidentally shrinks a young logger named Zak to the size of a fairy. Together, they rally the fairies and the animals of the rainforest to protect their home from loggers.
What is FernGully: The Last Rainforest?
This 1998 romantic period comedy-drama film stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck, and Geoffrey Rush, depicting a fictional love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare and Viola de Lesseps while Shakespeare was writing Romeo and Juliet.
What is Shakespeare in Love?
What is Coco?
This 2006 American comedy film follows a group of brothers who must participate in an underground drinking game tournament run by Baron Wolfgang von Wolfhausen.
What is Beerfest?
During the month of June in Wyoming, it is illegal to take a picture of this animal.
What is a rabbit?
Annie Dillard has written numerous poetry books including, "Tickets for a Prayer Wheel" and "Mornings Like This: Found Poems". She was born in this Pittsburgh neighborhood.
What is Point Breeze?
At the time of it's construction, this Pittsburgh tower was the largest LEED-certified building in the world. It is located at 500 First Avenue.
What is PNC Firstside Center?
After English and Spanish, this is the most spoken language in the city of Pittsburgh.
What is Chinese?
This American guitarist, singer, and songwriter was born in the Hill District. He began his professional career at the age of 19 as a jazz guitarist.
Who is George Washington Benson?
This is the best bar to drink at in Pittsburgh.
What is the Alpine?
A group of this mythological creature is referred to as a blessing.
What is the unicorn?
This American singer-songwriter also published several poems. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. One could say he was the first to recognize that the times were changing.
Who is Bob Dylan?
Both The Beach Boys and Johnny Cash covered this song, where the proclaimed, "Ah uhm dirty water".
What is don't go near the water?
All I'm asking is, according to Rolling Stone Magazine, this is the greatest English song of all time.
What is Respect by Aretha Franklin?
Don't love it and leave it to die, this song is considered by Guitar Magazine to have the greatest guitar solo of all time.
What is Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen?
This acoustic guitar song, has been sang each week since Alpine Karaoke started.
What is Puff the Magic Dragon?
This cookie was invented in San Francisco.
What is the fortune cookie?
According to the poem written by Wallace Stevens, the only emperor is the emperor of this.
What is ice-cream?
What is composting?
What is Yorkshire Pudding?
Monty's Instrument Food is a nourishment for your guitar and made of this.
What is wax?
Chill, Dawg. According to Business Insider this is the food most commonly ordered by drunk people.
What is the Chili Dog?
This animal is unable to stick out its tongue.
What is the crocodile?