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DAILY DOUBLE   This is the medical term for lockjaw.

What is Tetanus?

100

He coined the phrase:  The world is my oyster.

Who is Shakespeare?  He coined this phrase as it first appears in his play the Merry Wives of Windsor.  

Falstaff:  "I will not lend thee a penny."

Pistol: "Why then the word's mine oyster, which I with sword will open."

100

This product was hyped as "They're gr-r-r-eat!"

What are Kellog's Sugar Frosted Flakes?

100

This Beatles tune finished each of Elton John's sets during his eight Russian concerts

What is Back in the U.S.S.R?

100

This is the character who recieved a gold heart on a chain from the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz

Who is the Tin Man?

100

Vasco da Gama was this nationality.

What is Portuguese?

200

This is the only organ in the human body capable of regenerating lost tissue.

What is the liver?

200

DAILY DOUBLE He voiced the cartoon character Bugs Bunny.

Who was Mel Blanc?

200

Pregnant women took thalidomide to remedy this

What is morning sickness/nausea?

200

DAILY DOUBLE. This incredible National choir made The Battle Hymn of the Republic a million-seller.  Originally affiliated with a specific church it was recently renamed to strip out the religion.  

HINT:  The (Religious Name)    ___________ Choir.

What is The Morman Tabernacle Choir?

200

She wrote the Twilight series of novels upon which the best selling movies were based.

Who is Stephanie Meyer?

200

This was hyped as "three days of peace and music".

(1969)

What is Woodstock?

300

Osteomyelitis affects these body parts.

What are the bones?

300

This British Prime Minister was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Who was Winston Churchill?

300

DAILY DOUBLE This automaker wanted us to "Think small," starting in 1959

What is Volkswagen?

300

This was the first No. 1 hit for the Commodores

What is Three Times a Lady?

300

He starred in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which was based on a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Who is Brad Pitt?

300

In a pack of cards, which King does not have a mustache?

What is the King of Hearts?

400

DAILY DOUBLE A sphygmomanometer measures this. 

What is blood pressure?

400

This element is also known as quicksilver.

What is mercury? (Elemental (Metallic) Mercury)

400

Dame Lesley Lawson best known as _________, was named "The Face of 1966" in a Daily Express article, voted Woman of the Year and arguably became the word's first supermodel.  She was initially known for her thin build and androgynous appearance.

Who is Twiggy?

400

DAILY DOUBLE This was the Beatles first double album

What is The white album?

400

DAILY DOUBLE. This James Bond movie opened with a parachute jump off Mount Asgard.  (HINT:  Roger Moore was James Bond.)

What is The Spy Who Loved Me?

400

DAILY DOUBLE This city is traditionally said to be built on seven hills.

What is Rome?

500

The axilla is the scientific name for this part of the human body.  

HINT: Make sure you use your Secret or Right Guard.

What is the armpit? (The axilla is the area on the human body directly under the shoulder joint.)

500

DAILY DOUBLE This is the State Capital of Nebraska.

What is Lincoln?

500

The U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book invesitgated these.

What are UFOs?

500

This Leslie Gore song topped the charts on May 18, 1963

What is Its My Party?

500

DAILY DOUBLE. This is the kind of animal that Pinocchio almost turned into.

What is a donkey?

500

She betrayed Samson to the Philistines.

Who was Delilah?