Colors
Say it in French
Questions from a 1927 quiz book
Words that use all 5 vowels
The "bean" stalk
100

It can mean melancholy or refer to indecent material

Blue

100

Coffee with milk

Cafe au lait 

100

With 10.3 million, it's the largest American state by population according to the 1920 Census

New York

100

This adjective means showy & intended to impress

Ostentatious 

100

3-word phrase meaning to divulge confidential information or secrets

Spill the beans

200

Amy Ray & Emily Saliers perform as these girls

Indigo 

200

My God!

Mon dieu

200

This "heavier-than-air flying machine is intended to rise & descend vertically"

a Helicopter

200

To inject someone with a small amount of a disease so that they can become immune to it

to inoculate 

200

The pope's is white & called a zucchetto

beanie

300

"To scorch slightly in cooking" is one Random House Dictionary definition

to brown

300

Great Prize

Grand prix

300

12 1/2 miles long, the Simplon Tunnel through these European mountains was then the longest in the world

The Alps

300

"Dancing Queen" can "feel the beat from" this instrument

tambourine 

300

Scientifically known as Glycine max, this member of the pea family is native to Asia

soybean 

400

Close to russet, it's also a policeman in old-timey slang

a copper

400

Literally, White Card

Carte blanche

400

The "3 new European nations of more than 10 million...as a result of the World War" were Poland, Czechoslovakia & this Slovene-ly one

Yugoslavia 

400

It sounds like you're writing a novel, but it means to empower or formally sanction an act

authorize 

400

In Del Rio, Texas you can find the grave of this notorious frontier judge

Roy Bean

500

A color, or a princely dynasty important in the Netherlands

orange

500

That's life

c'est la vie

500

Best known for his many portraits, this three-named American painter died in London in 1925


John Singer Sargent

500

ecstatic happiness

Euphoria 

500

In 2019 Northeastern beat Boston College to win this venerable hockey tourney

The Bean Pot