City Nicknames
Rallies and Festivals
Mythical Creatures
Iconic Songs from Movies
Currency
Dances
Presidential Facts
Acronyms
100
The City that Never Sleeps, Gotham, The Big Apple
What is NYC?
100
During the last weekend in July, Gilroy, CA hosts a festival of appreciation of this bulbous flowering plant of the Allium genus. Culturally, its known to fend off demons and vampires, but it also adds a lovely bite to dishes like pasta and (sometimes) ice cream.
What is Garlic?
100
This mytical bovine is the pet and working animal who accompanies Paul Bunyan.
Who is Babe the Blue Ox?
100
It’s not an overstatement to say that this 1977 film starring John Travolta introduced countless viewers to the magic of disco, with help from the song Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees.
What is Saturday Night Fever?
100
Burying this currency in your garden will repel slugs, which get electric shocks from touching copper and zinc.
What are pennies?
100
According to a survey by Dance magazine, this Christmas-themed Tchaikovsky ballet accounts for nearly half the annual revenue of many dance companies.
What is The Nutcracker?
100
This president, #38, was a professional model in his early 20s. While posing for the cover of Cosmopolitan Magazine, he met his wife Betty.
Who is Gerald Ford?
100
FLOTUS
What is First Lady of the United States?
200
The Cradle of Liberty, The City of Brotherly Love
What is Philadelphia?
200
The International Balloon Fiesta, known for its mass ascensions of hot air balloons, is celebrated in this Southwestern City.
What is Albuquerque, NM?
200
This creature is a is a female spirit in Irish folklore who portends the death of a family member, usually by screaming, wailing, shrieking, or keening.
What is a Banshee?
200
And here's to you, Mrs. Robinson. The soundtrack to this 1967 film starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft is full of Simon and Garfunkel hits, like Mrs. Robinson and Scarborough Fair.
What is the Graduate?
200
This motto did not appear on US currency until 1963.
What is In God We Trust?
200
Forming in St. Louis in 1925, this precision dance company has performed in New York City’s Radio City Music Hall since 1932.
Who are the Rockettes?
200
This president, #27, really liked baths. He weighed about 350 pounds, but the stories about getting stuck in his bathtub is just a myth. But he did arrange to have a bathtub shipped to the USS North Carolina so he could luxuriate as he floated into Panama.
Who is WH Taft?
200
CFO
What is Chief Financial Officer?
300
Entertainment Capital of the World, The City of Lost Wages, Sin City
What is Las Vegas?
300
Talkeetna, in this state, celebrates the “Moose Dropping Festival”, where painted moose droppings are dropped from a helicopter.
What is Alaska?
300
In 2013, construction on a new highway was stopped in Iceland because the planned road would run through a suspected dwelling of these creatures typically represented as small, elusive figures in human form with pointed ears, magical powers, and a capricious nature. (Also known to make cookies in trees.)
What is an Elf?
300
“As Time Goes By” is the song that’s most often associated with this Best Picture winner from 1942, as well as Ilsa’s line to “play it, Sam.” Her emotions are clearly seen on her face as Sam reluctantly plays the song, knowing that Rick has banned him from ever doing so because it’s too painful for him to hear.
What is Casablanca?
300
A quarter has 119 of these. A dime has 118. Pennies and nickels are without them all together.
What are outside ridges?
300
This 1984 movie includes a titular track from Kenny Loggins, Kevin Bacon performs much of his character's dancing, and John Lithgow as a reverend who leads the charge to ban dancing.
What is Footloose?
300
To celebrate his 63rd birthday in 1947, this president, #33, had a bowling alley installed in the West Wing. One of the first seven pins he knocked down is on display at the Smithsonian Institution.
Who is Harry Truman?
300
NSFW
What is Not Safe for Work?
400
The City Too Busy to Hate, The ATL, Hotlanta.
What is Atlanta, GA?
400
In the Naki Sumo festival in Japan, babies are held in the arms of sumo wrestlers in an open-air sumo ring. Two babies compete in a short match in which the first child to do this is proclaimed the winner
What is Cry?
400
Famous in Jewish folklore, these creatures are most often depicted as beings created from inanimate matter such as clay or mud made holy by rabbinical elders, which have been brought to life to serve some purpose.
400
"Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" is a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for this 1969 film starring Robert Redford and Paul NewmanThe uplifting lyrics describe somebody who overcomes his troubles and worries by realising that "it won't be long till happiness steps up to greet me."
What is Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
400
This word, for coin collection, comes from the Greek word for "coins in curculation.
What is Numismatics?
400
With songs like "One," "Dance 10, Looks 3" and "What I Did for Love," this classic 1970s musical centers around Broadway dancers auditioning for eight spots in a stage show.
What is A Chorus Line?
400
Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt and George W. Bush all participated in this activity in either high school or college. Go team go!!
What is cheerleading?
400
FWIW
What is For What Its Worth?
500
Rome of the West, Fourth City, Gateway to the West
What is St Louis?
500
This week-long festival, celebrated annually in Nevada, focuses on community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance. Its name comes from a large wooden effigy that is dispatched the Saturday before Labor Day.
What is Burning Man?
500
This creature is the French and Cajun counterpart of a werewolf, a man who can turn into a wolf but specifically prowls the swamps around New Orleans. Similar to other werewolf legends, it is believed that you have to be cursed to become this creature, but French Catholics believe you will become one if you break the rules of Lent for 7 consecutive years.
What is a Rougarou?
500
Audrey Hepburn’s performance as Holly Golightly, singing the love song “Moon River,” produces one of the most poignant scenes in this romantic comedy directed by Blake Edwards.
What is Breakfast at Tiffany's?
500
These two men and founding fathers are the only non-presidents to appear on US currency.
Who are Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton?
500
This famous Nebraskan got his start in show business dancing with his sister Adele. After working in vaudeville, they first performed on Broadway in 1917.
Who is Fred Astaire?
500
This president, who succeeded Abraham Lincoln, was considered to be the best dressed. His mother sent him to apprentice a tailor as a child, so he was able to make his own suits.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
500
SCUBA
What is Self-Contained, Underwater Breathing Apparatus?
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