Jaws -An American Masterpiece
Food and Cooking
Heather - AKA The Love of Connor's Life
Potpourri
Word Origins
100

During the making of Jaws, director, Steven Spielberg, slept with this food under his pillow every night.

Celery

100

What common fruit is cloned to keep up its production?

Bananas. There are 1,000 varieties and they all come from the Cavendish variety which has no seeds so is more pleasing to consumer. Because it has no seeds it requires cloning to produce more.

100

Heather performed this kind of dance one time in high school.

Tap

100

This sea creature produces its own sunscreen.

Coral

100

Turn your life around & be one of these new members of a religious group. From the Latin for turn around.

Convert

200

The original director of Jaws was fired after continually referring to the shark as what sea creature?

A whale

200

This drink can be used as blood plasma.

Coconut water

200

This was Heather's "rule" for Ali to be able to go to bed.

Safe path out of room

200

This animal, having no legislative power but being dearly loved, was mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for 20 years.

Stubbs, an orange tabby cat

200

Literally meaning dead pledge it's the loan you take out to buy a home.

A Mortgage

300

Collectively, the three model sharks used in Jaws were referred to as Bruce. This reference comes from what real person?

Spielberg's lawyer

300

Knowing molasses and cane sugar were slave crops, Abolitionists substituted this ingredient in their cooking. 

Maple syrup

300

Heather asked Connor NOT to do this on their honeymoon.

Step over the barrier at the cliff to take pictures.

300

30% of this breed of dog are deaf in one ear.

Dalmatians

300

Cheers to you if you know that this potent potable derives its name from the Russian word for water

Vodka

400

Spielberg played this instrument in an early scene featuring a high school band. John Williams, the composer of the theme music, said it "added just the right amateur quality to the piece".

A clarinet

400

Engastration, popularized in the Middle Ages, describes what cooking practice?

A cooking technique in which the cook stuffs the remains of one animal into another animal. Turducken for example.

400

Instead of taking the bus to her Mom's work in third grade, Heather walked and spent her bus money on this.

Candy at McFarlin's

400

Dock Ellis, a pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates, was intoxicated with this during the first and only no hitter of his career on June 12th, 1970.

LSD

400

From the Middle Dutch word for ship comes this term for the captain of a small ship or boat

Skipper

500

This famous line in Jaws was not in the script.

"You're gonna need a bigger boat"

500

Traditional pound cake recipes call for a pound of what four ingredients?

Butter, Eggs, Sugar, Flour

500

This was the most photographed piece of Heather's wedding outfit.

New white converse with fold down white lace socks.

500

People who enjoy what pastime are called cruciverbalists.

Crossword puzzles

500

Used to describe a wealthy or powerful person it was originally a title applied by foreigners to the shogun of Japan

Tycoon