"A" to "A" Countries
Time for Dessert
Books by Characters
Women on Trial
The Errors Tour
100

The official language of this small country is Catalan.

What is Andorra?

100

Erupting with flavor, it's the yummy dessert seen here. 

What is a lava cake?

100

Hunting at sea, Matt Hooper & Captain Quint

What is Jaws?

100

Aileen Wuornos, the first woman to fit the FBI profile of this type of multiple murderer, called jurors "scumbags"

What is a serial killer?

100

HGTV's "25 Biggest Renovating Mistakes" include "going too trendy" & "excessive use of" this tape; it "is not a permanent solution."

What is duct tape?

200

First-millennium monk Mesrop Mashtots is credited with creating this nation's alphabet.

What is Armenia?

200

Bad when it's caused by heavy rain, good when it's a dessert cocktail made with vodka, coffee liqueur & Irish cream.

What is a mudslide?

200

Josef K. & The Examining Magistrate

What is The Trial?

200

As well as high this crime, there's petty this, like by a wife against a husband; Catherine Bevan was tried for it in 1731 Delaware

What is treason?

200

In myth, he fell for the 'ol "just hold that for me for a sec" trick when Hercules got him to retake his spot of holding the heavens.

Who is Atlas?
300

In 1967 this Balkan nation was declared the world's first atheist state. 

What is Albania?

300

These cakes were immortalized by Proust in his "Remembrance of Things Past."

What are Madeleines?

300

In a children's book, Stanley Yelnats & Zero.

What is Holes?

300

The 1884 trial in Russia of Ekaterina Semenova introduced to law this "psycho"logical type who lacks any remorse.

What is a psychopath?

300

Thank you on behalf of this group, but the 15 songs they cut on Jan. 1, 1962 in London did not pass Decca Records audition... d'oh!

Who are the Beatles?

400

Not soccer, but pato, a combination of polo & basketball, was declared the national sport there in 1953.

What is Argentina?

400

Made with egg whites & coconut but needing no flour, these cookies are traditional during the Jewish Passover. 

What are macaroons?

400

Sethe & Baby Suggs

What is Beloved?

400

Leslie Van Houten, a follower of this man, was retried in 1977 after her lawyer's mysterious death; she was released at age 73.

Who is Charles Manson?

400
Examples of this oopsy with -ism or without include "chicken pops", "he took her for granite" & "decapitated coffee"

What is a malapropism?

500

The desert-dwelling fennec fox is its national animal.

What is Algeria?

500

Italian for "cooked cream," this eggless custard can be garnished with raspberries.

What is panna cotta?

500

Squealer & Old Major

What is Animal Farm?

500

In 1993 Dorothea Puente was convinced of killing tenants at her boarding-house for these, which arrived in the mail monthly.

What are Social Security checks?

500

"Howbeit the hair of" Samson's "head began to grow after he was shaven" --these Biblical people didn't think of that.

Who are the Philistines?