What are the odds
Colorful Verbs
During the renaissance
Yellow
5 of a kind
400

Gemologists say the odds of finding one of these in an oyster are around one in 10000

Pearl
400

To suffer a temporary loss of consciousness

Black Out

400

In 2020 museums marked the 500th anniversary of the death at age 37 of this artist with the name of an angel

Raphael 

400

Yellow fever destroys liver cells causing this yellowing of the skin & eyes

Jaundice
400

In basketball the number 5 is used to represent this one of the 5 positions on a team

Center

800

The National Weather Service says that if you live to age 80 your odds of getting struck by this at least once are one in 15300

Lightning

800

Chili recipes say to do this to the ground beef

Brown

800

The weak Clement VII was pope when forces of this double-adjective empire led by Charles V sacked Rome 1527

The Holy Roman Empire

800

Elton John sang that his future lies beyond this

Yellow Brick Road

800

Of the 5 largest Caribbean islands it's the only one that's a U.S. territory

Puerto Rico

1200

A $2 ticket buys you about a 1 in 300 million chance of hitting the jackpot in this alliterative 45-state lottery

Mega Millions

1200

To give permission to start something like when a studio says you can start making the movie

Greenlight

1200

The sale of these reductions in punishment by the church troubled Martin Luther & influenced him to take action

Indulgences

1200

In Ant-Man Corey Stoll plays Darren Cross who assumes the identity of this nemesis

Yellow-Jacket

1200

At mypiate.gov learn about the 5 food groups: fruits vegetables grains protein & this one (no not dessert)

Dairy

1600

The ESA said there was a 1 in 7299 chance that 2006 QV89 one of these would hit earth in 2019 (Spoiler alert: It didn't)

Asteriod

1600

To purposely abandon someone on an island

Maroon

1600

A 16th century French queen commissioned this Paris palace; it's gone now but its gardens remain

Tuileries

1600

The Norris-LaGuardia Act said yellow-dog contracts can't stop workers from forming these

Unions

1600

Of the 5 current movie ratings put out by the MPAA this one has the strictest admissions requirement

NC-17

2000

Your odds of drawing this highest hand in 5-card poker? 649739 to 1

Royal Flush

2000

To cut in a zigzag pattern like with certain shears

Pinking

2000

Titian painted Isabella d'Este the First Lady of the Renaissance who ruled this city--Mantova” in Italian

Mantua

2000

Colorful anatomical hyphenated word for a coward

Yellow-Belly

2000

[Flight Of The Bumblebee plays] That music was by one of The Five mighty Russian composers of the 19th century--this man with a hyphenated name

Rimsky-Korsakov