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($100) Even before she performed the final concert with the Supremes in 1970, she was recording her first solo album.
Answer: Who is Diana Ross? She and Mary Wilson, fellow former Supreme, had a spat on stage at the Motown reunion years after the Supremes had disbanded. It ended with Ross shoving Wilson, and Smokey Robinson took the stage to defuse the scene.
($100) This elongated car is used by wedding parties, in funeral processions, and to and from the office by moguls of industry.
Answer: What is a limousine? Initially, they were used to transport freight. The name comes from the Limousin region in France.
The popular saying “a month of Sundays” is flawed because you can have a maximum of only this number of Sundays in a month.
Answer: What is five? Months have only four or five of each day, depending on what day of the week the first of the month falls.
($100) A thunderstorm may also produce this frozen precipitation, even during summer months.
Answer: What is hail? A hailstone can be deadly. The largest confirmed hailstone fell in Vivian, South Dakota, in 2010, measuring approximately eight inches (20.3 cm) in diameter.
If you place an egg in a glass of water and it sinks to the bottom, it is this.
Answer: What is fresh, or good? If the egg floats, it’s a sign that the egg is no longer fresh.
($200) He left his band of five family members in 1979 and struck out on his own with two consecutive hit albums, Off the Wall and Thriller, right out of the gate.
Answer: Who is Michael Jackson? The Jackson 5, as the family band was known, consisted of Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael.
($400) One tourist adventure in Venice is to ride one of these through the canals.
Answer: What is gondola? All 280 components of modern Venetian gondolas are still handcrafted.
This bell rings inside the giant grandfather-style clock that is one of the dominating features of the London skyline.
Answer: What is Big Ben? The clock’s proper name is the Great Clock of the Elizabeth Tower.
($200) This planet is known as the third rock from the sun.
Answer: What is Earth? An easy way to remember the order of the planets’ positions in relation to the sun is to learn the sentence “My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Names”— Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
A hen lays approximately this number of eggs in a day.
Answer: What is one? A hen lays an egg every 24 to 26 hours. Within 30 minutes, a new egg begins to form.
($400) In 1971, this Beatle started a band known as Wings.
Answer: Who is Paul McCartney? His wife Linda played the keyboard. The band disbanded in 1981. Its most popular album is Band on the Run, which features two Top 10 singles, including the title song.
Get comfortable—we’re going for a ride on this, the longest highway in the world.
Answer: What is Pan-American Highway? It runs 19,000 miles (30,578 km) from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to the tip of Argentina. It traverses 14 countries from the United States south through Central and South America
This Calcutta-based nun was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work in India, and she was canonized in 2016.
Answer: Who is Mother Teresa? In her biography, she writes about not feeling the presence of God in her soul for the last 50 years of her life.
To smother a fire, you must remove this gas from it.
Answer: What is oxygen? Fires need a fuel source, oxygen, and heat. Never attempt to put out an electrical fire with water. The easiest and quickest way to put out a small fire, such as a kitchen fire, is with a fire blanket. If you use one, you do not have to clean up the mess created by halogen fire extinguishers. It’s best to review the instructions before you need to use the blanket.
The color of the eggshell is not an indication of nutritional value, but this can be.
Answer: What is the color of the yolk? Often but not always, the brighter and darker the yolk color (leaning more toward orange than yellow), the more nutrition the egg provides.
($600) This popular duo, consisting of Paul and Art, who each went on to successful solo careers.
Answer: Who are Simon and Garfunkel? They have since performed reunion tours together. “The Sound of Silence,” released in 1965, is the tune that catapulted their duo career.
Jules Verne wrote a book about traveling for five weeks in one of these unlikely modes of transportation, customarily used for recreation and sightseeing.
Answer: What is a balloon? The book is Five Weeks in a Balloon, a notable departure from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
First woman to win a Nobel Prize; did so for her work in the field of radioactivity and then again for her work in chemistry
Answer: Who is Marie Curie? In 1903, the Nobel committee awarded the prize to Curie, her husband Pierre, and physicist Becquerel, “in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint research on the radiation phenomena discovered by [Becquere
A severe storm occurring inland is often accompanied by this wind event.
Answer: What is a tornado? The costliest tornadoes have shifted away in recent years from the traditional area known as Tornado Alley (Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas) and toward the Southeast.
This color egg is typically more expensive.
Answer: What is brown? Hens that lay brown eggs are usually larger than chickens that lay white eggs, so feeding a larger hen is more expensive.
$800) This performer was a member of the New Christy Minstrels and the First Edition before he left to pursue a solo career.
Answer: Who is Kenny Rogers? According to the bio on his website, “Rogers sold over 120 million albums worldwide, making him one of the best-selling male artists of all-time according to the RIAA, with one Diamond album, 20 Platinum albums, and 11 Gold albums.”
Cruise control was designed by an engineer who had this disability.
Answer: What is blindness? Ralph Teeter invented cruise control in 1945. He got the idea when he noticed that his driver’s speed varied depending on whether he was talking.
This term applies to animals that eat mostly other animals (meat).
Answer: What is carnivore? Carnivores are predators, and their bodies are designed to aid them in hunting. This applies to insects and arachnids as well as reptiles, birds, and fish.
Cold and hot deserts share the lack of this.
Answer: What is humidity/moisture? The driest non-polar desert is the Atacama Desert, located in South America along the Pacific Ocean coastline. The continent of Antarctica is the largest desert
This is how you tell whether an egg is raw or hard-boiled.
Answer: What is spinning the egg? If it wobbles, it’s raw. The liquid in the raw egg sloshes as you spin it, causing it to wobble. If the egg is steady as it spins, it’s hard-boiled.