Our Changing Lives and Language
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Fictional Crime Fighters & Sleuths
Chocolate
100

We moved from watching them in theaters and drive-ins to collecting them on VHS and DVD formats; now kids stream them on the internet.

What are movies?

100

Official record of your school grades or a written record of spoken words, such as from court proceedings

What is a transcript?

100

The Barbie doll was released in this decade

What are the 1950s?

100

He is Mayberry's beloved sheriff

Who is Andy Taylor?

100

This lighter-colored chocolate is often found in candy bars

What is milk chocolate?

200

They used to stop by for a visit, but now we can also communicate with them on screens and social media.

What are friends/loved ones?

200

Daily Double

A coast to coast flight

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What is transcontinental?

200

Eight squared equals this

What is 64?

200

On Hawaii Five-O, Steve McGarrett tells this person, "Book 'em."

Who is Danno?

200

This candy bar company shares its name with a planet

What is Mars?

400

This electronic communication device was once used strictly for audio communication between two parties; today it's a multifunction device.

What is a phone?

400

To change

What is transform?

400

Ben Franklin used a kite and a key to experiment with this

What is electricity?

400

If you love mystery novels, you probably grew up reading books about this female amateur sleuth

Who is Nancy Drew?

400

This chocolate cake is named for a man with the same last name as a European country

What is German chocolate cake?

600

We were told one of these a day keeps the doctor away; now, it's a top computer and smartphone brand.

What is Apple?

600

A violation or infringement of law, duty, principle, or command

What is transgression?

600

The standard dinner fork and salad fork have this number of tines

What is four?

600

Daily Double

Jim is the private detective protagonist in this 1970s series, and his father Rocky and friend Angel add color and implied off-color to the show

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What is The Rockford Files?

600

This essential small or built-in appliance was initially marketed as the Radarange and has a history entwined with a chocolate bar

What is a microwave?

800

This was once a time to party, club hop, and flock to the hottest new restaurant, but today many use it as a time to unwind and relax from a harried week.

What is a weekend?

800

A medium that permits diffused light to come through without providing a clear view of the object behind it

What is translucent?

800

Collectively, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are known as these

What are Jewish High Holy Days?

800

He is Agatha Christie's Belgian detective creation

Who is Hercule Poirot?

800

This chocolate company opened a theme park in Pennsylvania

What is Hershey?