Going Nuts
Poetry and Prose
Elvis
Twelv-is
Get it Up and Moving
Squishy Science
Name the Portmanteau
100
in this state, the Pecan is both the state tree and the state nut.
What is Texas?
(Pecan trees are from the Hickory family)
100
A limerick is a silly or humorous poem consisting of five lines with a rhyme scheme of a,a,b,b,a. It gets its name from a city in this country.
What is Ireland?
100
Though misspelled on his birth certificate, Elvis always spelled this, his middle name, with the more common double A spelling.
What is Aaron?
100
This term is a dozen dozen
What is a gross?
100
This goofball got everyone’s attention back in the '70s and interest only continued to grow. He became the king of aerobics with his crazy outfits in the '90s and his series of Sweatin' to the Oldies.
Who is Richard Simmons?
100
During photosynthesis, plants absorbs carbon dioxide and water, which is converted into glucose and this byproduct.
What is oxygen?
100
Starts with C: robotic human or animal
What is Cyborg?
cybernetic + organism
200
German Botanist Baron Ferdinand von Mueller of the Royal Botanical Gardens of Australia named this after his friend John MacAdam.
What is a macadamia nut?
200
This term suggests when words that start with the same consonant sound are repeated, either close together or next to each other. For example, "She sells seashells by the seashore.
What is alliteration?
200
In the movie Jailhouse Rock, his character Vince Everett was in prison for this crime, after accidentally killing someone in a barroom brawl.
What is manslaughter?
200
Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig are all part of this.
What is the Chinese zodiac?
200
This six-letter word names both a seed company and an exercise that combines a squat, a pushup, and a jump in the air.
What is a burpee?
200
This creature with an equine name has no teeth or stomach, mates for life, and is the only species on Earth where the male carries the unborn offspring
What is the seahorse?
200
Popular term for the Affordable Care Act passed in 2010
What is Obamacare?
300
This state is the lead producer of walnuts, almonds and pistachios.
What is California?
300
Some people write this type of poem to glorify or praise another person, place or thing. Keats famously wrote 5 of these in 1819: on a Grecian Urn; on Indolence; on Melancholy; to a Nightingale and to Psyche.
What is an ode?
300
In 1976, this singer/songwriter, sometimes called The Boss, sneaked onto the grounds of Graceland in hopes of meeting The King
Who is Bruce Springsteen?
300
This demigod was told to serve Eurystheus, king of Mycenae, for ten years. During this time, he was sent to perform a series of difficult feats, called labours.
Who is Hercules (or Heracles)?
300
Of the six World Major, three of them are in the United States; in Boston, NYC and this city.
What is Chicago?
300
The echidna and the platypus are the only two mammals that do this.
What is Lay Eggs?
300
Starts with V; brand of fabric adhesives.
What is Velcro?
Velvet + Crochet
400
About 40% of the almonds in the world are purchased by producers of this.
What is Chocolate?
400
An Epistolary novel is written in the form of a series of these. Some examples include The Handmaid's Tale, Dracula and The Color Purple.
What are letters?
400
The Fool's Gold Loaf was a favorite sandwich of Elvis'. He liked it so much that he and some friends flew from Graceland to Colorado, back to Graceland in one night just to have one. It contains there three ingredients.
What are peanut butter, banana and bacon?
400
In this play by Reginald Rose, A young Puerto Rican man is accused of murdering his abusive father. The defendant could face the death penalty if convicted.
What is 12 Angry Men?
400
The earliest of these were constructed from stitched seal stretched over a wood or whalebone-skeleton frame and were originally developed by the Inuit, Yup'ik, and Aleut; the answer is a palindrome, and they are quite the arm workout
What is a kayak?
400
Willow bark contains salicin, a chemical that can be converted into salicylic acid in the body. A derivative of that, acetylsalicylic acid, is the generalized term for this pain and inflammation reliever
What is Aspirin?
400
Starts with B; the Indian film industry.
500
Once ripened, the fruit attached to this nut is twisted to remove the nut meat. The shell and oil around it contains a compound called urushiol, the same oily substance you react to in poison ivy.
What are cashews?
500
This literary device is defined as attributing human characteristics or behavior to a non-human entity, like the spider in Charlotte's Web or the animals in Animal Farm.
What is anthropomorphism?
500
From the time they met until his death, he always sent a roomful of flowers to her, his ginger Viva Las Vegas costar whenever she opened a show in Las Vegas.
who is Ann-Margret?
500
If you are on a recovery journey, you may know that the 12 steps through the process started in this organization founded by Bill W. and Bob S. in 1935.
What is Alcoholics Anonymous?
500
This bodybuilder was famous for advertising his exercise course to 97-pound weaklings in comic books, beginning in the 1940s and continuing on past his death in 1972.
Who is Charles Atlas?
500
This V word refers to a body part or organ that is considered a remnant of an ancestral structure, having significantly reduced functionality or no function at all due to evolution. Some examples include your appendix, your tailbone and your wisdom teeth.
What is Vestigial?
500
Plant-based product often served at a Vegan Thanksgiving
What is Tofurkey?