Holiday Foods
Middle I
That's Just Science, Man
Quoting the Movies
ONE-WORD RHYMES
200

A festive dish for Easter dinner is a crown roast of this

What is lamb?

200

To tell a trivial lie

What is a fib?

200

The ratio of an object's velocity to the velocity of sound in the same medium is named for this physicist

What is Mach?

200

2015: "I gotta... grow 3 years worth of food... on a planet where nothing grows... luckily, I'm a botanist"

What is The Martian?

200

The cost of a plane ticket

What is airfare?

400

For Kwanzaa you might serve groundnut stew or this Jamaican dish of chicken seasoned with allspice & peppers

What is jerk chicken?

400

A type of broom, or an egg beater

What is a whisk?

400

With a high level of charged particles, this atmospheric layer that begins about 30 miles up makes radio possible

What is the ionosphere?

400

A 2003 cartoon: "All drains lead to the ocean"

What is Finding Nemo?

400

Direct deposit time of the week

What is a payday?

600

BBC Good Food says that every Christmas table should have this fruity dessert & we won't go until we get some!

What is figgy pudding?

600

Preaching often accompanies this evangelical assembly

What is a revival?

600

With 1 being the softest on the Mohs scale of hardness, this substance consisting primarily of silica is the index mineral for 7

What is quartz?

600

2009: "You're not in Kansas anymore, you're on Pandora"

What is Avatar?

600

Magical or personal power; I've got mine working

What is mojo?

800

Cinco de Mayo favorites include guacamole & this Mexican dish whose name translates to "stuffed peppers"

What are chiles rellenos?
800

Instinctive knowledge or belief; "woman's" is said to be keen

What is an intuition?

800

This outermost region of the Sun's atmosphere is warmish--2 million kelvin

What is the corona?

800

2013, Clooney to Sandra Bullock: "Nobody special? Somebody down there looking up, thinking about you?"

What is Gravity?

800

Write one & you might get an award from the James Beard Foundation

What is a cookbook?

1000

Let's all thank Dorcas Reilly, who invented this Thanksgiving dish while working at Campbell's Soup

What is green bean casserole?

1000

This official rebuke or censure is often quite severe

What is a reprimand?

1000

Discus hurlers can throw farther into a headwind; increased speed of air over the discus creates lift, per this Swiss man's "principle"

Who is Bernoulli?

1000

2017: "I had no father. My mother sculpted me from clay & I was brought to life by Zeus"

What is Wonder Woman?

1000

To show off, especially in the main seating area of a sports venue

What is grandstand?