Bushisms
Cheeses of the World
Before and After
Famous Explosions
All About Madison
200

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many" of these specialists "aren’t able to practice their love with women all across the country"

What are OB/GYNs?

200

This common South Asian cheese is made using lemon juice instead of rennet and doesn't melt when heated

What is paneer?

200

The three Rice Krispies mascots take an unexpected academic test

What is Snap, Crackle and Pop quiz?

200

The 1883 eruption of this Indonesian volcano could be heard as far away as Perth, Australia

What is Krakatoa?

200

University officials begrudgingly tolerate this notorious resident of the campus steam tunnels

Who is Tunnel Bob?

400

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where" these appendages "take dream"

What are wings?

400

The French term 'chevre' refers to any cheese made from this animal's milk

What is a goat?

400

American Revolutionary War traitor mixes lemonade into his iced tea

What is Benedict Arnold Palmer?

400


Guy Fawkes and other dissident English Catholics failed to blow up this landmark British building in their 1608 Gunpowder plot

400

This now-famous comedic newspaper began as the pet project of UW students Tim Keck and Christopher Johnson

What is the Onion?

600

"They" did this to George, a novel portmanteau indicating an unfairly low appraisal

What is misunderestimated?

600

An 8-pound round of Double Glocester is the centerpiece of this injury-prone traditional sporting event

What is the cheese-rolling or cheese race?

600

Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank star gets bogged down in a confrontation over nukes stored on an island south of Florida

What is Mark Cuban Missile Crisis?

600

An 1878 flour dust explosion in this Midwestern city caused the complete destruction of the world's then-largest mill, located on the Mississippi river

What is Minneapolis?

600

This singer of "The Dock of the Bay" known as the "King of Soul" died at age 26 in a Lake Monona plane crash

Who is Otis Redding?

800

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't" these three words

What is get fooled again?

800

The name of this semi-soft non-aged cheese comes from the diminutive form of the Italian verb meaning "to cut"

What is mozzarella?

800

The mastermind of the Harper's Ferry raid prevails in a landmark Supreme Court anti-segregation decision

What is John Brown vs Board of Education?
800

No one knows the exact origin of this code name for the first ever nuclear explosion, performed during a 1945 test in New Mexico; it's possible program director Oppenheimer had Christian theology on his mind

What is Trinity?

800

Extensive 20th-century study of Lake Mendota birthed this scientific field focusing on lakes and other inland ecosystems

What is limnology?

1000

On growing the economy: "We ought to make the pie" this

What is higher?

1000

Egyptian domiati cheese is traditionally made using a mixture of milk from cows and these other large ungulates

1000

Founding father Patrick Henry's famous quote leads into Arthur Miller's Tony-winning Best Play about a travelling businessman

What is Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death of a Salesman?

1000

This mysterious 1908 explosion in eastern Siberia leveled over 830 square miles of taiga forest; most experts attribute to a meteorite air burst

What is the Tunguska Event?

1000

A 1991 fire on Cottage Grove Road blazed for eight days when thousands of tons of this food product were ignited by a faulty forklift battery

What is butter?