MARDI GRAS
SPELL IT AGAIN, SAM (PALINDROMES)
"P"LACES OF INTEREST
1970 HEADLINES
1960 TRIVIA
100

This item is found inside the Mardi Gras king cake.

What is a plastic baby?

100

This four letter word means exactly 12 o'clock during daylight hours-also known as middaty.

What is noon?

100

The White House is located on this avenue.

What is Pennsylvania?

100

This person replaced the Shah of Iran in 1979.

Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?

100

This is the name of the conflict in 1961 in which CIA-trained forces tried, but failed to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro.

What is Bay of Pigs?

200

This color is NOT one on New Orleans' Mardi Gras colors.

What is blue?

200

On the TV sitcom M*A*S*H, Cpl. Walter Eugene O'Reilly is played by Gary Burghoff, also known by this nickname.  The word is also a detection system used to track weather and airplanes.

Who is Radar?

200

This is the City of Brotherly Love.

What is Philadelphia?

200

This is the name of the deadly disease that struck a convention in Philadelphia in July 1976 and was named for the convention where it struck.

What is Legionnaires' disease?

200

The U.S. Postal Service added this in 1963 to every address today.

What are ZIP codes?

300

The French expression 'Mardi Gras' means this when translated into English.

What is Fat Tuesday?

300

When you hang wall art, you don't want it to be crooked, you want it to be perfectly horizontal to the floor, or this... 

What is level?

300

This manmade canal connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in Central America.

What is the Panama Canal?

300

This newspaper heiress took part in a San Francisco bank robbery in April 1974.

Who is Patty Hearst?

300

This actor won the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird.

Who is Gregory Peck?

400

Float riders are required to wear these by law in keeping with the mystery and tradition of Mardi Gras.

What are masks?

400

Responsibilities of citizens are called this type of duty.

What is civic?

400

Collectively, Washington State, Oregon, and British Columbia are referred to as this region.

What is the Pacific Northwest?

400

This person leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

Who is Daniel Ellsberg?

400

Which product did Proctor and Gamble launch in 1966 that revolutionized baby care?

What is Pampers?

500

This city is where the ORIGINAL Mardi Gras celebration began on 1703.

What is Mobile, Alabama?

500

Dale Earnhardt Jr. followed his father's footsteps to become this kind of driver.

What is race car?

500

This country shares a language with Brazil and is famous for port wine and piri-piri chicken.

What is Portugal?

500

Paul Allen and Bill Gates founded this company in 1975.

What is Microsoft?

500

What famous TV series debuted in 1966 with these words..."Space, the final frontier...?"

What is Star Trek?