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Who is the pop-star singer who sang This Land is Your Land at the inauguration?
Jennifer Lopez
_________ means having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes.
Heterozygous
____ ______ is a very famous series that was made by JK Rowling.
Harry Potter
________ a small mass of dough cooked by boiling or steaming. b : a usually baked dessert of fruit wrapped in dough. 2 : something soft and rounded like a dumpling especially : a short fat person or animal.
Dumplings
_______ is a painting method in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-based solution. _______ refers to both the medium and the resulting artwork.
Watercolor Painting
Who are the two hosts of the NPR Show: Wait Wait Don't Tell Me?
Peter Sagal and Bill Kurtis
_____ is the genetic constitution of an individual organism.
Genotype
___________ is a novel by Johann David Wyss, first published in 1812, about a Swiss family of immigrants whose ship en route to Port Jackson, Australia, goes off course and is shipwrecked in the East Indies.
Swiss Family Robisnson
_____ is a cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables, usually seasoned with oil, vinegar, or other dressing and sometimes accompanied by meat, fish, or other ingredients.
Salad
____ is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are similar to those used to produce some other colored visual arts media, such as oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation.
Who is the American Columnist who spoke every week at PBS NewsHour on Fridays and recently retired?
Mark Shields
_____ is the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment.
____________ is a children's picture book designed, illustrated, and written by Eric Carle, first published by the World Publishing Company in 1969, later published by Penguin Putnam.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
______ is a savory dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flattened base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients, which is then baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven.
Pizza
______ art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead use shapes, colors, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect. Wassily Kandinsky. Cossacks 1910–1. Tate.
Abstract Art
Poet _ _ presented her poem: The Hill We Climb at the inauguration.
Amanda Gorman
______ ______ is a square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment. It is named after Reginald C. Punnett, who devised the approach. The diagram is used by biologists to determine the probability of an offspring having a particular genotype
Punnet Squares
__________ is a book by British writer Roald Dahl. It was published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape in London, with 232 pages and illustrations by Quentin Blake.
Matilda
______ is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking
Pasta
____________ is a board game currently published by Hasbro. In the game, players roll two six-sided dice to move around the game board, buying and trading properties, and developing them with houses and hotels. Players collect rent from their opponents, with the goal being to drive them into bankruptcy. Money can also be gained or lost through Chance and Community Chest cards, and tax squares; players can end up in jail, which they cannot move from until they have met one of several conditions. The game has numerous house rules, and hundreds of different editions exist, as well as many spin-offs and related media.
Monopoly
Who is the three-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld?
Cerberus
Humans have two sets of _____. Females have the ____ X and X though Male have the ____ X and Y.
Chromosomes
_____ is a 2002 mystery/suspense novel, recommended for ages 9-12, by Carl Hiaasen. The setting takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy, and joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site.
Hoot
_____ is a traditional Japanese dish of prepared vinegar rice, usually with some sugar and salt, accompanying a variety of ingredients, such as seafood, often raw, and vegetables. Styles of sushi and its presentation vary widely, but the one key ingredient is "sushi rice", also referred to as shari, or sumeshi.
Sushi
_________ known originally as Moksha Patam, is an ancient Indian board game for two or more players regarded today as a worldwide classic. It is played on a game board with numbered, gridded squares. A number of "ladders" and "snakes" are pictured on the board, each connecting two specific board squares.
Snakes and Ladders