Potent Potables
(Alcohol)
Name the Song from the Opening Lyrics
Before and After: Movies
American History
Spooky Word Origins
200

This cocktail is most often associated with the Kentucky Derby.

What is a Mint Julep?

200

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train,
Feeling nearly faded as my jeans,

What is Me and Bobby McGee (Janis Joplin)?

200

President Harrison Ford's plane is hijacked while Jack Nicholson spends time in a mental institution.

What is Air Force One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest?

200

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this man, just five days after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, ending the Civil War.

Who is John Wilkes Booth?

200

Literally meaning "dead pledge" its the loan you take out to buy a home.

What is mortgage?
400

In its basic form, this cocktail is just rum, lime juice and sugar shaken over ice.

What is a daiquiri?

400

I think I'm gonna be sad
I think it's today, yeah
The girl that's driving me mad
Is going away

What is Ticket to Ride (The Beatles)?

400

Haley Joel Osment sees the ghosts of 19th century English sisters who endured broken engagements and unhappy courtships.

What is The Sixth Sense and Sensibility?

400

This novel, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, was one of the most influential novels of the 1850s.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)?

400

Now meaning really great, this adjective is from the Latin for frightening.

What is terrific?

600

The 2 main styles of this liquor are Dutch & London Dry.

What is Gin?

600

I'd sit alone and watch your light
My only friend through teenage nights
And everything I had to know
I heard it on my radio

What is Radio GaGa (Queen)?

600

Lindsay Lohan swaps bodies with her mom to coach high school football in Texas.

What is Freaky Friday Night Lights?

600

The American Civil War started with a Confederate attack on this fort in South Carolina on April 12, 1861.

What is Fort Sumter?

600

This name of this spirit is from the German for "Rattle" and "Ghost".

What is Poltergiest?

800

More similar to beer than wine in production, it begins with steamed rice and mold.

What is Sake?

800

All the leaves are brown
And the sky is grey
I've been for a walk
on a Winter's day

What is California Dreamin' (The Mamas & The Papas)?

800

Sean Connery goes rogue in a state-of-the art Soviet Submarine while a poor coal miner's son plays with rockets in the 1950's.

What is The Hunt for Red October Sky?

800

The term defining a period of American History in the late 1730s and the 1740s, which a religious revival swept across the land.

What is The Great Awakening?

800

From the Latin for "cleansing", it is the place to cleanse your soul before entering Heaven.

What is Purgatory?

1000

This cocktail has been trademarked by rum distributer Gosling Brothers who defends that it can only be made with their Black Seal rum.

What is a Dark and Stormy?

1000

Baby we can talk all night
But that ain't getting us nowhere
I told you everything I possibly can
There's nothing left inside of here

What is Two Out of Three Ain't Bad (Meatloaf)?

1000

A young lawyer defends a black man in the south while an older lawyer also defends a black man in the south.

What is A Time to Kill A Mockingbird?

1000

Under this man's presidency Lewis and Clark carried out the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific coast.

Who is President Thomas Jefferson?

1000

This adjective meaning evil comes from the Latin for "left hand".

What is sinister?