Its a GAMble
Key Ingredients
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One Word Two Meanings
Names for Groups of Animals
200

A term that's used by casinos to describe their business; its connotation is considered less offensive than "gambling."    

What is gaming?

200

Guacamole is traditionally made with this single-seeded fruit also called an alligator pear.    

What is an avocado?

200

Garry Marshall directed this comedy that tells love stories occurring on February 14.    

What is Valentines Day?

200

What someone in a bowling alley or on a pitcher's mound hopes to throw.    

What is a Strike?

200

This legislative sounding word is for a group of our wise feathered friends, the owls.    

What is a Parliament?

400

A calculated move or strategy, especially in chess, to sacrifice a weak piece to attain an advantage later.    

What is a gambit?

400

They’re the feminine sponge cakes dipped in coffee and layered with mascarpone to make tiramisu.    

What are ladyfingers?

400

It’s the Marvel movie in which Eddie Brock gains superpowers after becoming host to an alien symbiote.    

What is Venom?

400

A bullet shot from a gun and losing contestants on "The Apprentice" are both this.    

What is fired?

400

Put on your tin foil hats, a group of these leaping Madagascar natives are called a conspiracy.    

What are lemurs?

600

It's the name of both a river and a country in West Africa.    

What is (The) Gambia   ?    

600

From the French for “Dutch sauce,” it’s made with egg yolk, butter, and lemon juice.    

What is hollandaise sauce?

600

This Hitchcock flick was the first to use a dolly zoom to create a feeling of disorientation.    

  What is “Vertigo”?

600

16 American ounces or 100 British pence.    

What is a Pound?

600

A group of these largest cats in the Americas is menacingly known as a shadow.    

What are Jaguars?

800

If you lived in the mid-20th century, you may have described a woman's legs as these.    

What are gams   ?    

800

Corn and lima beans are the key ingredients of this sufferin’ 9-letter dish

What is succotash?

800

James Van Der Beek starred in this sports drama that lent its name to a 2019 college admissions scandal.    

What is “Varsity Blues”?

800

Pencil tips, or what Wilt Chamberlain once scored 100 of.    

What are points?

800

Groups of gibbons, bonobos and others in this family of Old World simians are known as a shrewdness.    

What are apes

1000

Borrowed from French, this term refers to a young mischievous girl.    

What is gamine   ?    

1000

Lend an ear as we tell you this animal’s meat is a key ingredient in hasenpfeffer stew.    

What is a rabbit?

1000

“The Midwich Cuckoos” inspired this film about children with frightening powers in a small town.    

  What is “Village of the Damned”?

1000

What you might do to a donut in coffee, or to somebody in a carnival game.

What is dunk?

1000

Perhaps owing to the length (height) of their necks, a group of giraffes is known as this tall architectural structure.    

What is a tower?