FOR THE BIRDS
This bird of prey is the national bird and symbol of the United States.
What is the bald eagle?
This Romance language is the official language of Brazil, unlike the rest of South America.
What is Portuguese?
This clear spirit is traditionally distilled from grain or potatoes.
What is vodka?
This American duo led a famous expedition (1804–1806) to explore the Louisiana Purchase, guided in part by a Shoshone woman.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This penalty involves pre-snap movement by an offensive player that simulates the start of a play.
What is a false start?
This bird’s tongue is so long that it wraps around the inside of its skull, acting as a shock absorber to protect its brain from repeated impact.
What is a woodpecker?
This term refers to a regional or social variety of a language, distinguished by unique vocabulary, pronunciation, or grammar.
What is a dialect?
This Beer brand is the official sponsor of the NFL.
What is Bud Light?
This Venetian merchant traveled the Silk Road to China and wrote a famous account of his journeys.
Who is Marco Polo?
This penalty involves excessive or late contact outside the normal scope of play.
What is unnecessary roughness?
This corvid is famous for its problem-solving intelligence and ability to recognize human faces.
What is a crow?
This is the most widely spoken native language in the world.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
What popular Kentucky bourbon distillery gets its name from an ancient pathway, crossing the Kentucky River, created by a particular mammal species that no longer can be found in Kentucky?
What is Buffalo Trace?
This Portuguese explorer led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, though he died partway through in the Philippines.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This is the penalty distance for offensive holding.
10 yards
Birds are the only animals on Earth to have these, which are actually highly modified reptilian scales.
What are feathers?
This African language, with over 100 million speakers, is a Bantu language serving as a lingua franca across East Africa.
What is Swahili?
This dried, cone-shaped flower is added to beer for bitterness, flavor, and as a natural preservative.
What is a hop?
In 1911, Yale lecturer Hiram Bingham helped bring widespread attention to the overgrown Incan ruins of this mountaintop city in Peru.
What is Machu Picchu?
This penalty involves a high-low combination block, which occurs when one offensive player blocks a defender high while a teammate blocks them low.
What is a chop block?
This New Zealand bird is flightless, nocturnal, and lays an egg that can be up to 20% of its body weight.
What is the kiwi?
This everyday word comes from the Latin word for salt, since Roman soldiers were partly paid in it.
What is "salary"?
The name of what liqueur, which comes in yellow and green varieties, comes from the "charter house" of the French monks who have made it since the 17th century?
Chartreuse
This high-resolution space telescope was serviced in orbit in 1997, where a new spectrograph was added.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This penalty involves a player intentionally striking or slapping a loose ball with their hand or arm in a way that violates the official rules.
What is an illegal bat?