Jeopardy! & The 10 Rings
Telling A Bedtime Story
The Richter Scale
Same First & Last Letter
The Wild West
Dionne Warwick
100
In a book by this man, The Hobbit Frodo gets a ring granting invisibility from his cousin Bilbo
Who is Tolkien
100
A huntsman cuts into a wolf’s stomach to let this girl & her grandma escape, but the wolf lives! OK, until the girl kills it using stones
Who is Little Red Riding Hood
100
Charles Richter developed the first widely used earthquake scale at this Pasadena school of science & engineering
What is Caltech
100
Prancer & Cupid were famous ones
What are reindeer
100
The autobiography of former slave Nat Love tells of his days of “riding, roping, and shooting” as a famous one of these
What is a cowboy
100
Talent runs in the family; here’s Dionne with this 1st cousin whom Dionne said had “a voice like none other”
Who is Whitney Houston
200
“Five golden rings” is a line from this holiday song
What is "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
200
Let’s thumb through this tale.. Title girl swims well, gets human legs… Wait, she kinda dies at the end?!
What is The Little Mermaid
200
The deadliest earthquake ever recorded struck this country’s Shaanxi province in 1556
What is China
200
In 2017 the maximum length of this went from 140 to 280 characters
What is a tweet
200
The Oregon, Mormon & Old Spanish were famous these via which settlers from points east reached the West
What are trails
200
In 1982 Dionne joined forces with Barry Gibb of this trio who produced her “Heartbreaker” album & backed her on the title track
Who are the Bee Gees
300
In the late 1990s Galileo images revealed that this largest planet has a ring made of dust particles
What is Jupiter
300
A Seussian home invasion, now that’s what he’ll do! / He’ll mistreat a fish! Turn 2 kids' home into a zoo!
Who is The Cat in the Hat
300
A flatboat pilot said an 1812 quake in Missouri was so powerful it made the waves in this big river run backwards
What is the Mississippi
300
A short bit of praise from a critic or a fellow author on the cover of a book
What is a blurb
300
Seen here, this vehicle that gave way to the railroad was the subject of many a Western movie
What is a stagecoach
300
In 1985 “That’s What Friends Are For”, recorded by Dionne & friends, raised money for amfAR, for research to battle this disease
What is AIDS
400
As Ernestine the telephone operator on "Laugh-In", she would say, "One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingies"
Who is Lily Tomlin
400
…& after the step-mom of these 2 kids abandoned them, they ate a local witch’s house, then burned her to death; how Grimm! G’Night!
What is Hansel and Gretel
400
A huge earthquake struck this capital of Portugal on All Saints’ Day, 1755, killing many at mass in churches built of stone
What is Lisbon
400
Larry Bird, or currently, Jayson Tatum
What is a Celtic
400
Deadwood is in South Dakota; this other fatal-sounding town notorious for Old West gunfights is in Arizona
What is Tombstone
400
Dionne had a hit with this classic song that begins, “The moment I wake up, before I put on my makeup”
What is I Say A Little Prayer For You
500
When it was first published in 1922, The Ring called itself "The world’s foremost" magazine about this sport
What is boxing
500
Her cupboard, bare; she found her dog dead, left to buy a coffin, then found the pup laughing… sounds more like Stephen King
Who is Old Mother Hubbard
500
In 1906 a quake caused by a rupture along this fault devastated San Francisco & other California cities
What is the San Andreas
500
A fancy design of your initials that you use on stationery or clothing
What is a monogram
500
Based on this nickname, frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannery must have brought trouble along with her
Who is Calamity Jane
500
Dionne had a long time working relationship with this composer who co-wrote many of her hits with Hal David
Who is Burt Bacharach