Whisk(e)y
Memoirs
Cats and Dogs
Hurricanes
Breaking the Fast
Hybrid Zoology
Potpourri
100
While tasty neat or on the rocks, add ice, bitters and an orange twist to create this, the most popular whiskey cocktail.
What is an Old Fashioned?
100
Her book, The Diary of a Young Girl, explores a thirteen-year-old's time hiding in a 'Secret Annex' with her family to escape Gestapo detection.
Who is Anne Frank?
100
Cheetahs run twice as fast as this dog breed, but the dog has the endurance to run 5 times longer.
What are greyhounds?
100
On August 29 of this year, we grieved the 20th anniversary of this hurricane that hit the Gulf Coast, doing considerable damage to Louisiana and Mississippi.
What is Hurricane Katrina?
100
The first commercially produced corn flakes were mass produced by this company in Battle Creek, MI in 1898.
What is Kellogg's?
100
The term Zebroid is used when a zebra is crossed with any other equine. A Zorse is specifically when a zebra is crossed with this.
What is a Horse?
100
A male duck is called this.
What is a Drake?
200
In his book, the Pickwick Papers, this author used both correct spellings of whisk(e)y
Who is Charles Dickens?
200
He is the author of two memoirs, Dreams from My Father and Promised Land.
Who is Barack Obama?
200
When working at the University of Cambridge this English polymath became so frustrated with the sound of cats trying to get through his door that he commissioned a local carpenter to build cat doors in the base of the door
Who is Isaac Newton?
200
Once wind speeds reach 74 miles per hour, this type of weather event becomes a hurricane.
What is a tropical storm?
200
This breakfast dish generally consists of 2 poached eggs and canadian bacon on an english muffin with hollandaise sauce?
What are Eggs Benedict?
200
A narluga is what you get when you cross-breed these two aquatic mammals. Scientists have never seen them out in the wild, but have found skulls and DNA to prove their existence.
What are a Narwhal and a Beluga?
200
Picture it . . . this is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Sicily?
300
Someone told this inventor, who pioneered wireless transport and created the standard for alternating current power, that if he drank whiskey every day, he'd live to be 150. He made it to 86.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
300
From Louisville, Kentucky, to Heavyweight Champion of the World to worldwide ambassador for peace, "The Soul of a Butterfly" is his timeless memoir about love in all its forms.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
300
This amusement park in California has an army of feral cats which keep their rodent population in check; hopefully just not their rodent spokesperson.
What is Disneyland?
300
The primary difference between a hurricane and this kind of storm is its geographic location, mainly impacting the NW Pacific Ocean, near Japan, China and the Philippines.
What is a Typhoon?
300
Lou Gherig was the first athlete featured on a box of this cereal, the Breakfast of Champions.
What are Wheaties?
300
Sometimes called a Pizzly or a Grolar, there are eight confirmed cases of a hybrid of these two bear species in the Northwest Territory of Canada.
What are a polar bear and a grizzly?
300
Horseshoe stakes are separated by this many feet.
What is forty?
400
This variety of hot sauce, created by Edmund McEIlhenny and named for a region of Mexico is aged 3 years in whiskey barrels.
What is Tabasco sauce?
400
In his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, this political leader shares his experiences of his very lengthy prison sentence for his opposition and strong views on South Africa’s apartheid laws.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
Only 20% of cats with this fur color are female. Similar to human chromosomes, XX and XY, the color gene is carried on the X chromosome; since the males only have one, their gingery genetic fate is sealed.
What is orange?
400
The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane scale measures this on a 1-5 rating.
What is Wind speed?
400
Most commonly made with Seville oranges, this spread is traditionally served on toast or scones.
What is Marmalade?
400
This breed is a cross between domestic cattle (usually a bull) and a bison (usually a female), combining the characteristics of both for food production.
What is a Beefalo?
400
And that has made all the difference” is the final line in this Robert Frost poem.
What is "The Road Not Taken"?
500
The whiskey that is lost to evaporation during the aging process has this heavenly name.
What is the Angel's Share?
500
Written by Tara Westover, this memoir tells her story about growing up among survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, her escape to Brigham Young University and the quest to come back home again.
What is Educated?
500
75% of dog parents sign their pets name on holiday cards. 45% of dog parents allow their dog to share this with them.
What is their bed?
500
In the United States, a Category 5 hurricane has made landfall at maximum strength on only three recorded occasions, in only these two states
What are Florida and Mississippi?
500
This southern breakfast institution is known for its 24 hour, 365 day a year service. Because of that, FEMA uses them as an index of extreme circumstance. If they're closed, something really serious has happened.
What is Waffle House?
500
The cama is a hybrid of a llama and this variety of camel, the one with only one hump
What is a dromedary?
500
Bill Clinton, Pete Buttigieg, Rachel Maddow, Susan Rice and Kris Kristofferson all have this prestigious educational award in common. The global acceptance rate is about .7%
What is the Rhodes Scholarship?