FLOWERS
EMMY AWARDS
AMERICAN HISTORY
FRIENDS
FLORIDA
100

The Russian Mammoth variety of this flower can grow to 15-inches across and produce more than 1,000 edible seeds.

Sunflower

100

This British-born actress received 12 nominations for her role in for Murder, She Wrote, but never won once.

Angela Lansbury

100

The Jones-Shafroth Act of 1917 made the residents of this Caribbean island US citizens.

Puerto Rico

100

Friends since high school in Cambridge, MA, they shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1998 for the film Good Will Hunting.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

100

This Florida town, once the center of the Florida citrus industry, was transformed in 1965 when plans to build Walt Disney World there were finalized.

Orlando

200

Claude Monet produced a classic series of paintings that featured this floating flower.

Water Lilies

200

This actress takes the prize for the most Emmy nominations (20)and 9 total wins for performances in Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and Veep.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

200

Gerald Ford succeeded him as vice president of the United States.

Spiro Agnew

200

Chelsea Clinton was good friends with this fellow New Yorker … until 2016.

Ivanka Trump

200

One of the most remarkable habitats in the world is this “river of grass” located in south Florida.

The Everglades

300

This small, wispy, white flower, a very popular “filler” in flower arrangements, supposedly got its name because of its charming and innocent appearance.

Baby's Breath

300

This Canadian-born actor was nominated for 10 Emmys, and won 5, for performances in Family Ties, Spin City, and Rescue Me.

Michael J. Fox

300

Charles Lindbergh’s custom-built, single-engine plane, which he used to make the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight from Long Island to Paris, was named after the hometown that supported him.

The Spirit of St. Louis

300

Mark Antony was good friend and right-hand man to this Roman statesman.

Julius Caesar

300

The Straits of Florida are located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. They also separate the Florida Keys and this island country.

Cuba

400

This flower, native to Europe and Asia, is the source of the narcotic opium and its derivatives, morphine and codeine.

Poppy

400

This actor has been nominated for 18 Emmys over the years, for his work on series such as Cheers, Damages, and The Good Place.

Ted Danson

400

In September 1862, President Abraham Lincoln remarked, “I never felt more certain that I was going right than I do in signing this paper.” What was the paper?

The Emancipation Proclamation

400

The Christian denomination known formally as the Religious Society of Friends is also known by this name.

Quakers

400

Which two states border Florida?

Georgia and Alabama

500

This yoga position is named after an important aquatic Asian flower

Lotus

500

He was nominated for 5 Emmy Awards for The Andy Griffith Show – and he and won all of them!

Don Knotts

500

It turned out to be anything but a folly when this US Secretary of State negotiated the purchase of Alaska for roughly two cents an acre.

William Seward

500

This early 20th century self-improvement guru penned How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936.

Dale Carnegie

500

The name of this wealthy community, home to a multitude of golf courses, tennis clubs, spas and gyms, is Spanish for “the mouse’s mouth.”

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