What New Year?
Unfinished Business
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Hair of the Dog
Name that Scientist
Riots, Rebellions and Uprisings
How Humiliating!
100
On New Years Day 1797, this replaced New York City as the capital of New York.
What is Albany?
100
Portrait artist Gilbert Stuart intentionally left the portrait of this President unfinished, but finished enough to appear on the $1 bill.
Who is George Washington?
100
In the Grimm's version, these siblings are considered too many mouths to feed, so their father leads them into the forest. The brother, being very resourceful, leaves a trail of pebbles to find their way home.
Who are Hansel and Gretel?
100
Enjoying this tomato based cocktail after a wild night of drinking is a popular hangover remedy; thanks in part electrolytes and antioxidants of the tomato juice and the spices like horseradish and jalapeno.
What is a Bloody Mary?
100
This English scientist, famous for his work with motion and gravity, was born in 1642, the same year Galileo died.
Who is Isaac Newton?
100
Protests (or some say riots) broke out in 1968 in this Midwest city when it hosted the Democratic National Convention, beginning as a protest of US involvement in Vietnam.
What is Chicago?
100
On October 17, 1814, eight Londoners were killed in a flood of this liquid when a 22-foot high wooden fermentation tank ruptured, the pressure of which broke through a wall and blasted open several more vats
What is beer?
200
On New Years Day, 1999, this became the official currency for 20 of the 27 member states of the EU.
What is the Euro?
200
Planned in honor of their countrymen who died in the Napoleonic Wars of the early 1800s, the National Monument of this country, atop Calton Hill near Edinburgh was intended as a recreation of the Parthenon. Unfortunately, a lack of funding left the building only fractionally complete.
What is Scotland?
200
In the Grimm's version of Cinderella, her slippers are made, not of glass, but of this precious metal.
What is Gold?
200
In ancient Rome, a common hangover cure was to eat this small yellow song bird, fried, decapitated and dusted with salt and pepper.
What is a canary?
200
This eminent physicist, said, "God does not play dice with the universe." He explained that everything in the universe existed for a reason, and not by mere accident.
Who is Einstein?
200
The first Pride was a Riot! So say a number of T-shirts reminding people that June's LGBTQ Pride activities started outside this Inn in NYC on June 28, 1969.
What is Stonewall?
200
During this game in 1929, a center named Roy Riegels caused his team (and himself) huge embarrassment when he picked up a fumble on the thirty-yard line, somehow managed to get confused on the field, and ran with the ball for 69 yards...in the wrong direction!
What is the Rose Bowl?
300
On New Year's Day, 1907, this President (the 26th) set a record for shaking 8,513 hands in one day.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
300
Filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky planned to adapt this Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel for the big screen in 1971, complete with a Pink Floyd soundtrack and starring Mick Jagger. Unfortunately, he died in 1973 before it could be completed.
What is Dune?
300
In the Grimms’ “Little Snow White,” the evil queen asks the Huntsman to bring back these organs to prove she has been killed. Also, so she can eat them.
What are lungs and liver?
300
People in this western state post most frequently about hangovers on Instagram, which could be due to the state’s many breweries. It isn’t called America’s “Beer Capital” for nothing!
What is Oregon?
300
The simple pendulum device, named after this French physicist, was conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation.
300
June 3-8 1943, in Los Angeles, a riot broke out as sailors attacked Mexican-American youths. On the surface it was for their choice of this clothing item, but it was really more about racism. Shocking, I know.
300
In 1631, a new edition of the recently translated King James Bible (sometimes called the Wicked Bible) accidentally left this word out of the seventh Commandment, suggesting that perhaps adultery was encouraged in the eyes of the church.
What is "not"?
400
The last televised ad for this kind of product ran at on January 1st, 1971 at 11:50 p.m. during The Johnny Carson Show.
What are cigarettes?
400
There is a partially completed rapid transit system beneath the streets of this midwest city also known as The City of Seven Hills. Although the system only grew to a little more than 2 miles in length, its derelict tunnels and stations make up the largest abandoned subway tunnel system in the United States.
What is Cincinnati?
400
This Grimm princess was named for a turnip and lived in a tower that was 20 ells high, meaning she had to grow her hair to be 73 ft, 4 inches long in order for her prince to climb up to her.
Who is Rapunzel?
400
In a survey conducted in 2016 by The Workforce Institute at Kronos Incorporated, hangovers after this sporting event impacted a whopping 62% of people surveyed, with 34 percent ‘fessing up to calling in sick and another 28 percent showing up late.
What is the Super Bowl?
400
This World War II British mathematician deciphered the codes of the German Enigma machine and went on to become one of the fathers of modern computing and artificial intelligence.
Who is Alan Turing?
400
The Hough Riots, in this Ohio city, started outside the 79ers Bar when a white bar owner refused to give a Black patron a glass of water. This riot was one of many which were part of a larger pattern of racial tension and frustration in the United States in 1966
What is Cleveland?
400
Some bonehead accidentally included a videotape of this historical moment in a batch of tapes that were being magnetically erased so that they could save money and reuse them. As a result, no original recordings of the July 20 1969 landmark event still exist.
What is the moon landing?
500
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued this, which declared that slaves in rebel states were to be "forever free".
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This English author published 6 of the 12 installments of his serial whodunnit, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, left incomplete upon his death in 1870.
Who is Charles Dickens?
500
In this story, a man convinces a king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. To keep up the ruse, she makes a deal with a clever imp; he'll spin the straw if she gives up her first born.
What is Rumpelstiltskin?
500
This hangover cure calls for a raw egg, Worcestershire sauce, tomato juice, vinegar, hot sauce, salt, and pepper that's traditionally served in a single gulp.
What is a Prairie Oyster?
500
In 1800, this scientist invented the first true battery, storing and releasing a charge through a chemical reaction instead of a physical one. it consisted of pairs of copper and zinc discs piled on top of each other, separated by a layer of cloth or cardboard soaked in brine.
Who is Alessandro Volta?
500
in reaction to the Draft Act of 1863, which stated that all men from ages 20-45 were required to register to fight in this war. Many Americans were angry that the draft was effectively a "rich man's war" because men who could afford to pay a fee or hire a substitute could avoid serving
What is the Civil War?
500
In 1986, Geraldo Rivera hosted a live special unveiling the contents of this criminal's secret vault. Approximately 30 million people tuned in to see what treasures awaited – the spoils of a vast criminal empire, the bodies of his enemies, whatever. In the ultimate anticlimax, Rivera and his crew found nothing.
Who is Al Capone?