Palindromes
Potpourri
Crazy Animal Facts
Blasts from the Past
1960s Rom-Coms
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This term of endearment is another name for father.
Dad (or pop)
100
Oranges, lemons, and limes are this type of fruit.
Citrus. Did you know orange trees can range in height from 16 to 50 feet tall?
100
These two common household pets aren’t colorblind, but they do see color in a reduced range compared to humans.
Dogs and cats. Each has limited color perception because they have two types of color receptors (cones). Humans have three types of cones, so they see more colors.
100
Historically, this soda’s main ingredient was sassafras.
Root beer. August 6th is National Root Beer Float Day.
100
This timeless film stars Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly and George Peppard as Paul Varjak in a cat-and-mouse romance.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Hepburn earned $750,000 for the film, making her the highest-paid actress for a movie at the time.
200
Weather stations use this to detect weather patterns; one example is the Doppler.
Radar. Weather radars send out radio waves that hit rain, snow, and ice and bounce back to the radar station.
200
This is what lime slices tend to do in a drink.
Sink. Limes are denser than lemons, so their slices sink, whereas lemons tend to float.
200
These highly intelligent garbage-digging bandits have human-like fingers.
Raccoons. They are more closely related to bears than they are to cats.
200
We grew up on this snack, packaged in small boxes featuring circus characters.
Animal crackers. Fun fact: In Nabisco’s Barnum’s Animal Crackers, the monkey is the only animal cracker that is wearing clothes.
200
Free-spirited Corie (Jane Fonda) and stuffed-shirt Paul (Robert Redford) are newlyweds in this 1967 film.
Barefoot in the Park. After a glorious honeymoon at the famed Plaza Hotel, they navigate the reality of New York City life in a tiny fifth-floor walk-up apartment with an array of unusual neighbors.
300
This French word meaning “she” is also the name of a lifestyle magazine.
Elle. Elle is a pronoun that also can mean “her” and “it,” depending on the noun it is replacing.
300
McDonald’s once made broccoli that was flavoured to taste like this.
Bubble gum. It was an effort to get children to eat healthy foods, but the unintended consequence was that it confused the children. They probably wondered what was wrong with their broccoli.
300
These household pets are likely to sleep away the day and creep around the house at night.
Cats. All the places you deem off-limits are theirs to roam during the wee hours. Cats are not technically nocturnal; their most active hours are dawn and dusk. But if you have indoor cameras, you can catch their sneaky overnight activity.
300
She is known for her marvelous talent and as Liza Minelli’s mother.
Judy Garland. Garland will forever be remembered for her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, a blast from the past that is a must-watch movie.
300
This romantic thriller starring Audrey Hepburn as Regina Lampert and Cary Grant as Peter Joshua is set in Paris and adds a who-dunnit aspect with an astounding twist ending.
Charade. The opening scene finds Regina vacationing in the French Alps, shortly before returning to the apartment in Paris she shares with her husband. Only, the apartment has been emptied of all its belongings, including her husband.
400
Another term for midday?
Noon
400
This Canadian province is the only one officially bilingual, with both English and French.
New Brunswick.
400
This deadliest animal on Earth kills by carrying malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, and other diseases.
Mosquito. Their lifespans range from one week to one month.
400
He recorded the 1966 hit “Strangers in the Night.”
Frank Sinatra. When the song reached No. 1 on the charts, it knocked the Beatles’ “Paperback Writer” from its high position.
400
That Touch of [This] pairs Cary Grant as Philip Shayne with Doris Day as Cathy Timberlake.
Mink. The plot is the classic “young woman falls for a wealthy businessman” motif. It follows the predictable path of the man wanting an affair while the woman wants marriage.
500
A name for a watertight canoe.
Kayak. Kayaks were initially invented for hunting and transportation. The word kayak means ‘Hunter's Boat.’
500
Which artist painted "The Starry Night"
Vincent van Gogh. When van Gogh painted his most famous painting, The Starry Night, he didn’t even think it was any good. In fact, van Gogh considered himself and many of his paintings to be failures, and it's rumored that he only ever sold one painting in his lifetime.
500
These mammals are skilled swimmers and hold hands when they sleep in the water.
Sea otters. Sea otters sleep while holding hands so they don’t drift apart. The playful mammals eat about 30 percent of their weight each day.
500
This company popularized the disposable diaper on a mass scale.
Pampers. One early brand of disposable diapers came from England in the 1930s. Called “Destroyable Babies Napkins,” they were used in hospitals but never marketed to the general public.
500
Doris Day and James Garner play Beverly and Dr. Gerald Boyer in this wacky rom-com about a married couple whose life is turned upside down when she becomes a spokesperson for a soap company.
The Thrill of It All. Chaos almost rips their marriage apart until an unlikely intervention occurs.