Friday Fun

Child Actors

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This child actor was famous for starring in the first two "Home Alone" movies, as well as other films in the early 1990s.  

Who is Macauley Culkin

400

Child star Gary Coleman was known for this famous catchphrase

What is wachoo talkin' about

600

This child actor gained fame as the con artist, middle child on "The Partridge Family"

Who is Danny Bonaduce

800

Drew Barrymore gained fame in this immensely popular movie

What is E.T.

1000

This kid from "The Brady Bunch" did a voice on "Peanuts"

Who is Maureen McCormick

Animals

200

This group of animals belong in the class of Arachnids

What are spiders

400

This is where the common house fly lays her eggs.

What is on rotton meat.

• An adult housefly can lay hundreds of eggs. Within a day of being laid the larva, also known as a maggot, hatches from the egg. The larva will feast on the decaying organic material for about a week before becoming a pupa.

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This is the name of the dog sled race held in Alaska.

What is The Iditarod

• The Iditarod follows the path of a 1925 diphtheria serum run and was first run in 1973. Although the ceremonial start of the race is in Anchorage, the race really has its official start in Willow (It used to start in Wasilla, but was moved due to the lack of snow at that location). The end of the race is Nome.

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Canaries, first transported to Europe by Spanish sailors around the 17th century, became very popular household pets and then became very useful in this way.

What are detectors.

Canaries were used as detectors in the mines for unsafe gas detection. Signs of the presence of toxic gases would show on these small birds well before it would show on the miners themselves, allowing a chance to escape.

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This animal known for its colorful face and rump is the world's largest species of monkey

What is the Mandrill

• The mandrill is often mistaken for a baboon as it can weigh up to 60 pounds. Found in Western-Central Africa, it makes its home in tropical rainforests and is omnivorous.

Sci/Tech

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This is what the I in ROYGBIV stands for

What is Indigo

• ROYGBIV is an acronym or a mnemonic for the colors of the spectrum. The letters stand for red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, respectively.

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The Chinook, Sirocco, and Santa Ana are types of this meteorological phenomena

What are winds

• These are just a few of the many winds on our planet. The Chinook is a dry warm wind that blows east off of the Rocky Mountains into the prairie states of the Mid-West. The Sirocco is a Mediterranean wind that blows northward from the Sahara desert and has been known to reach hurricane strength speeds. The Santa Ana winds are very dry winds in Southern California that are infamous for bringing in very high temperatures from the desert and aiding the spread of the region's notorious wild fires.

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It takes just 59 days for this grass to grow 60 feet
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What is bamboo

• Bamboo is actually a type of grass, not a tree in spite of how tall it gets. It is the fastest growing plant. Under some conditions, certain species of bamboo (there are about 1500 species) have been known to grow three feet in a day, but one foot per day is more the norm.

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This website gets its name from a verb meaning "to utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds"

What is Twitter

• Twitter is best described as a mini-blogging site, in which its users can post "tweets" or messages to up to 140 characters. The website's mascot, a bird, would be an example of a twitterer, in the English sense of the word.

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This is the place on your body where you have your adenoids

The nose.

• The adenoids (sometimes called nasopharyngeal tonsils) are small lumps of tissue at the very back of the inside of your nose, where it joins the roof of the mouth.
  Enlarged adenoids can restrict the flow of air through the nasal passages; when this happens they are sometimes surgically removed. Children who need their tonsils removed often have their adenoid 'done' at the same time.

Humanities

200

In the famous painting, "American Gothic", this is what the man in the picture is holding

What is a pitchfork

American Gothic is a painting by Grant Wood. It is found in Chicago's art museum.

400

In Greek mythology, this would happen if you looked at Medusa

What is turned to stone

• Medusa was a gorgon with snakes for hair. To gaze upon her face would cause a man to turn to stone.

600

In the Arthurian legend, this is where did King Arthur lived

Where is Camelot

• Although there is no proof that King Arthur actually existed, scholars have debated the possible locations of the castle of Camelot. Among the places suggested are Caerleon in Wales, and Cadbury Castle in Somerset, England. According to the legend, after his last battle Arthur's body was carried to the isle of Avalon.

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The musical "Wicked" is based on a book that was in turn based on this other book

What is The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

• "Wicked" the musical is based on Gregory Maguire's book "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West"(1995). Maguire's book is a sort of spin-off of L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"(1900). "Wicked" tells much the same story as Baum's book (and the movie based on it), but from the perspective of the misunderstood Wicked Witch of the West.

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The Phantom of the Opera" is a musical set in this city

Where is Paris

• The show is about the Phantom, a mysterious man who wears a mask and haunts the Paris Opera House. The Phantom falls in love with a ballet dancer and teaches her singing.

Sports

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The first North American city to host the modern Olympic Games was a city that has been called the "Gateway to the West", and was later home to a famous arch

Where is St Louis

• The year was 1904 and the event was the Games of the III Olympiad. Like the Olympics four years prior (Paris), this event coincided and was overshadowed by a World's Fair in the same city. The famous arch was completed in 1965.

 

400

This major PGA Golf championship is held annually in Augusta, Georgia

What is The Masters

The Masters is an invitational event and is the first major of the season; it is held in the first full week of April. The three other majors change locations every year. The winner is awarded a green jacket, and the Masters is generally considered the most prestigious of the four major championships.

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This famous ice hockey trophy is distinctively tall, partly because it not only lists the year's championship team's name, but the all the names of its players and officials

What is the Stanley Cup

• The base of the Stanley Cup that was added to the original punchbowl-shaped trophy consists of several metal rings that have room for all these names. As time goes on, the oldest rings get "retired" to the Hockey Hall of Fame, maintaining the current 89.54 centimetre (35.25 inch) height of the trophy.

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This person was figure-skater, Nancy Kerrigan's American rival in the 1994 Winter Olympics

Who is Tonya Harding

In January 1994, an assailant used a police baton to strike Kerrigan on her landing knee; the attacker was hired by the ex-husband of her rival Tonya Harding. The attack injured Kerrigan, but she quickly recovered. Harding and Kerrigan both participated in the 1994 Winter Olympics, but after the Games, Harding was permanently banned from competitive figure skating. At the Olympics, Kerrigan won the silver medal in a controversial showdown with gold medal winner Oksana Baiul. She then started touring and performed with several ice skating troupes that included Champions on Ice and Broadway on Ice. In 2017, she was a contestant on season 24 of Dancing with the Stars.

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This is the meaning of the Olympic motto "Citius, Altius, Fortius"

What is Faster, Higher, Stronger.

• "Citius, Altius, Fortius" is Latin for "Faster (or Swifter), Higher, Stronger". This motto was proposed by the founder of the International Olympic Comittee, Pierre de Coubertin. The motto was introduced to the world at the 1924 Paris Games.