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Potpourri
100
The three major cities (with populations greater than 100,000) that get the most snowfall on Earth are all in this country
What is Japan?
100
In 1967, the first of this sporting event happened on January 15.
What is the Super Bowl?
100
This novel by Boris Pasternak novel is named after its protagonist; he's a physician and poet living in the time between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and World War II.
What Dr Zhivago?
100
On October 28, we celebrate this saint of lost causes and desperate situations.
Who is St Jude?
100
In 1513, this Spanish explorer was seeking the mythical "Fountain of Youth," then discovered and named Florida.
Who is Ponce De Leon?
100
This song was ABBA's only US number one single, in April of 1977. Elizabeth of Windsor was a big fan.
What is Dancing Queen?
100
This popular black tea blend, flavored with oil from the bergamot orange, was named for a British Prime Minister from the 1830s.
What is Earl Grey?
100
In undertaking one of the first ever clinical trials, Scottish doctor James Lind developed the theory that citrus fruits cure this disease
What is scurvy?
100
“Big Sky Country” is a popular nickname for this U.S. state
What is Montana?
200
This weather phenomenon comes in three shapes; rope, cone and wedge.
What is a tornado?
200
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson plays his first game with this team, breaking the MLB color barrier.
Who are the Brooklyn Dodgers?
200
"I didn't spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called 'mister,' thank you very much!" is a iconic quote by Dr. Evil from this spy spoof from 1997.
What is Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery?
200
On August 20, we celebrate this Patron saint of beekeepers and candlemakers. We also take the day to celebrate the large slobbery dog of the same name.
Who is Saint Bernard?
200
This American journalist accepted a challenge to go around the world in fewer than 80 days. In 1889, they made the journey in 72 days.
Who is Nellie Bly?
200
After initially coming in third with a song called Ring, Ring, ABBA returned to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 with this song named for a historic battle from 1815.
What is Waterloo?
200
The Boston Tea Party happened in this year.
What is 1773?
200
This dozy treetop mammal can hold its breath underwater for a whopping 40 minutes, even longer than dolphins.
What are sloths?
200
In the Bible, this Philistine's height is given as “six cubits and a span;” somewhere between nine and twelve feet.
Who is Goliath?
300
This sport has the highest fatality rate due to lightning strikes.
What is soccer?
300
On November 15, 1777 The Continental Congress approved this, the first governing document of the United States.
What is the "Articles of Confederation"?
300
She was the first African American woman in space, when she traveled on the Endeavor at age 36. Before that, she graduated from Cornell Medical school and was a medical officer in the Peace Corps.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
300
On July 29, we celebrate this saint of protection against snakes, Authors, Evangelist, Journalist, Musicians, Publishers, Reporters, Rope makers, Saddlers, Writers. Also the namesake for the capital city of Minnesota.
Who is St. Paul?
300
In 1803, Congress approved Jefferson's plan to search out a land route to the Pacific and to strengthen American claims to Oregon territory, sending these two explorers on their mission.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
300
A special program about ABBA on Australian TV in 1976 drew more viewers than this historic event that happened on July 20, 1969.
What is the Moon Landing?
300
The song Tea for Two is from this 1925 Broadway musical with music by Vincent Youmans and lyrics by Irving Caesar. Some say this play caused the Curse of the Bambino.
What is No No Nannette?
300
Though their stinging tentacles aren't actually snakes, jellyfish are part of a subphylum named for this Gorgon
Who is Medusa?
**Medusozoans are distinguished by having a medusa phase—a free-swimming, gelatinous bell—which often acts as the adult sexual stage
300
In the late 1860s, created America’s first commercially produced compressed yeast was created by these these Austrian immigrant brothers.
Who are the Fleischmann's?
400
This tower-like cloud type produces the most hail
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
400
On February 15, 1879, this President signed a bill allowing female attorneys to practice in front of the Supreme Court.
Who is Rutherford B Hayes?
400
Dr Archibald "Moonlight" Graham, a character in this Kevin Costner sports film from 1989, was based on a real person who played one game, never got up to bat and went home to an unassuming life as a small-town doctor in Minnesota.
400
This saint's day is celebrated on February 5. She's the patron saint of nurses, rape victims and breast cancer survivors as well as the namesake of a small town in Aroostook County.
Who is Saint Agatha?
400
This Portuguese explorer initiated the first circumnavigation of the Earth in 1519. He died during the voyage, and only 18 members of his crew returned alive.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
400
This film from 1994 tells the story of a social outcast and ABBA fan, with catchphrases such as “Now my life’s as good as an ABBA song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.”
What is Muriel's Wedding?
400
In the Himalayas, it’s traditional to add butter (usually from this animal) to milky black tea. The salt helps people living at high altitudes stay hydrated.
What is a yak?
400
Named for this mythical creature, there exists a rare condition where a single person possesses two or more distinct sets of DNA, usually arising from the fusion of two embryos or absorbing a sibling in the womb.
What is a Chimera?
400
These are the two utilities in a game of classic Monolopy.
What are Water Works and Electric Company?
500
Lichtenberg figures are common markings on the skin of people who have experienced this.
What is being struck by lightning?
500
On July 15, 2010, After 86 days, this company officially capped its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.
What is BP?
500
This English physician, is often praised as “the father of immunology.” His experiments with cowpox led to the development of the first successful vaccine in 1796; he observed that milkmaids who contracted cowpox were immune to smallpox which led to an inoculation method that would eventually save millions of lives.
Who is Edward Jenner?
500
This saint was so connected to volunteerism and service to the poor that he's the namesake for an international Catholic volunteer organization and the thrift shop that helps to fund their work.
Who is St. Vincent De Paul?
500
In 1964 this explorer made history as the first woman to complete a solo circumnavigation of the globe in a single-engine aircraft.
Who is Geraldine (Jerrie) Mock?
500
There is a museum dedicated to the band in this capital city.
What is Stockholm?
500
A SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture of Bacteria and Yeast) is the rubbery, pancake-like culture used to ferment sweet tea into this probiotic beverage.
What is Kombucha?
500
This famous square diagram is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment is named for a British geneticist.
What are Punnett Squares?
500
This is the US government agency that oversees the Witness Protection program.
What is the US Marshals?