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Parmigiano-Reggiano


What is Italy?

Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese must follow strict Italian regulations. Parmesan that you buy in the store is most likely English or American in origin and does not have to follow the restrictive regulations placed on its Italian counterpart.


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Buy one of these on Wheel of Fortune


What is vowel?

Contestants pick consonants and buy vowels with their earnings to decipher a word or phrase. The hostess turns over pieces of the puzzle that correspond with contestants’ picks until someone guesses the correct answer.


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Sidney Poitier stars as a teacher in this 1965 film. His class in London’s East End is filled with undisciplined, irreverent students who want nothing to do with learning.


What is To Sir with Love?

The movie has several plot lines and shows Poitier’s character, who requires his students to call him “sir,” teaching the pupils to respect him and one another.


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In the Christmas carol “Jingle Bells,” they ride in this kind of sleigh.


What is one-horse, open?

100

These containers sit on your kitchen table and hold your two most-used seasonings.


What are salt and pepper shakers or grinders?

200

Brie

What is France?

is so cheese comes from the Brie region of France. Brie that is exported to the United States is somewhat less mature than Brie made for domestic consumption.

200

Healthy diets include fruits and these.


What are vegetables?

Oklahoma categorizes watermelon as a vegetable and made it the official state vegetable.


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This 1964 lm stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins, her speech teacher. The film and the earlier Broadway musical are based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.


What is My Fair Lady?

The original 1956 Broadway cast starred Julie Andrews as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins.


200

The word Hanukkah means this.

What is dedication or inauguration?

It commemorates the dedication of the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem.


200

This tiny, decorative container is worn around the neck and opens to display two tiny photos.


What is a locket?

300

Roquefort


What is France?

We tend to use the terms blue and Roquefort interchangeably, but true Roquefort cheese is made from ewe’s milk. It can be made elsewhere, but it must undergo final aging in the limestone caves of Roquefort to be designated as such.

300

This is the opposite of horizontal.

What is vertical?

300

The 1973 award-winning film The Paper Chase, starring Timothy Bottoms and featuring John Houseman, follows students through their first year in this type of graduate school.


What is law?

John Houseman won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance.


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This is another name for Santa Claus wherein both his first and last name begin with K.


What is Kris Kringle?

The real Santa is thought to have been Saint Nicholas. Kris Kringle originated in Switzerland and Germany.


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When someone says, “I’ll bet you can’t guess what I got you for Christmas,” you might respond with, “Is it larger or smaller than” this household item.


What is breadbox?

The expression dates to the 1940s when people kept their bread in breadboxes on the counter.


400

Feta

What is Greece?

Feta can be made from sheep’s milk or a combination of sheep and goat’s milk and is cured in brine for several weeks.


400

This string instrument is also known as a fiddle.

What is a violin?

400

The 2001 film Legally Blonde stars Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods and follows her journey at this Ivy League law school.


What is Harvard?

We watch Elle progress from a fun-loving sorority sister to a serious law student.


400

If you count Rudolph, this number of reindeer pull Santa’s sleigh.


What is nine?

His reindeer are Rudolph, Vixen, Dancer, Prancer, Comet, Blitzen, Cupid, Donner, and Dasher. Some people now include a tenth reindeer—Olive. She came from Rudolph’s song from the line, “All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names.” People misheard the lyric as “Olive, the other reindeer...,” so she has been added to the list.


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This container with a lid is used to collect table crumbs or ashes from ashtrays.


What is a silent butler?

Some upscale restaurants still scrape table crumbs into silent butlers.


500

Stilton

What is England?

The village of Stilton used to make the cheese until the EU decreed that only cheese that is made in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and Derbyshire can bear the name “Stilton.” The village still produces the cheese but changed its name to Bells Blue.

500

This dry version of fortified wine is used in martinis.

What is vermouth?

500

In the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, this comedic actor plays a passionate, eccentric teacher at Welton Prep, where proper boys are molded to become future, elite movers and shakers.


Who is Robin Williams?

He was nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in the film.


500

This type of oil is used as fuel in the menorah.

What is olive?

It was the oil used in the temple. Today, many people use candles instead of oil.


500

Before briefcases or backpacks, people used to carry books and papers in these.


What is a satchel?

The satchel is making a comeback.