Classical Music
Name the four familes of the orchestra
What are strings, percussion, winds, and brass?
Born in this country in 1939, Atwood has become one of its most prominent authors
What is Canada?
Queens is the home to both of NYC's airports. Name them.
What are LaGuardia and Kennedy?
Five decades after the development of the peanut butter cup, these bite-sized treats came on the scene
What are Reece's pieces?
it's important to know that water boils at this temperature if you want to cook pasta on the stovetop
What is 212-degrees F or 100-degrees C?
This city is the place of Mozart's birth, and the fourth largest city in Austria
What is Salzburg?
What is The Handmaid's Tale?
This international nickname is Queens unofficial title
What is "The World's Borough"?
Reese's pieces most famous product placement in the movie E.T. was originally supposed to feature this competitor
What are M&M's?
Typically in season between December and April, this type of orange has a distinctive red hue to its flesh
What is the blood orange?
A monument celebrating what would have been his 75th birthday was unveiled in Bonn, Germany, in 1845
Who is Beethoven?
What is an entomologist?
Queens famously hosted two world's fairs. What years did they take place in?
What are 1939 and 1964?
This company owns and sells Reese's delicious peanut butter candies
What is Hershey's?
The Caesar salad originated in this country when Chef Caesar Cardini was hosting a July 4th celebration and ran out of food, simply throwing together whatever he had on-hand in the kitchen in a unique salad
What is Mexico?
Composers such as Verdi, Lizst, Rachmaninov and Mahler are considered to have defined this period of classical music
What is the Romantic period?
Between 2003 and 2013, Atwood completed a trilogy of a dystopian future, including "Oryx and Crake," "The Year of the Flood" and this book, which became the name of the series
What is "Maddaddam" or the "Maddaddam Trilogy"
Approximately this many people currently live in Queens
What is 2.4 million?
The Reese's candy was introduced in this year
An avid gambler, John Montagu was on a 24-hour streak and did not want to leave his table. He wanted to eat without having to put his cards down… thus inventing this lunch-time classic
What is the sandwich?
The word "piano" is the shortened version of this Italian term for the early 1700's version of the instrument
What is pianoforte?
An inventor as well as a celebrated author, Atwood patented this writing technology, which facilitates remote robotic writing of documents
What is Longpen?
Carolyn Glassberg famously grew up on this street
What is 214th Street?
The candy has its own special holiday, "I Love Reese's Day" on this date
What is May 18?
This word means "fear of vegetables"
What is "lachanophobia"?