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SINATRA
BACKYARD GAMES
INSURANCE
THE EARTH
200
'Your mom could tell you this word for marriage comes from the Latin for "mother"'
Matrimony
200
'He did his own fight scenes when he appeared on this TV P.I.'s show in February 1987'
"Magnum P.I."
200
'Competition in which you walk on your hands while your partner holds up your legs'
Wheelbarrow Race
200
'Since 1896 it's used the Rock of Gibraltar in its ads'
Prudential
200
'The modified Mercalli scale ranks these 1-12: 1 - not felt except by few, 12 - total destruction'
Earthquakes
400
'"Pondus", the Latin word for weight, gave us this adjective meaning weighty or unwieldy'
Ponderous
400
'The Arizona radio station Sinatra bought in 1989 was dubbed KFAS, the FAS standing for this'
Francis Albert Sinatra
400
'Before the invention of plastic this racket game used a cork stuck with feathers'
Badminton
400
'In 1988 this British firm celebrated its 300th anniversary'
Lloyd\'s of London
400
'We're in the holocene epoch of the quaternary period of the Cenozoic one of these'
Era
600
'This adjective meaning shifty or deceptive is derived from "de via", meaning away from the road'
Devious
600
'As Joey Evans in this 1957 film, Sinatra belted out "The Lady Is A Tramp"'
"Pal Joey"
600
'To play this you stand behind the 10 Off area & shoot your disk down the court into the scoring area'
Shuffleboard
600
'Actuaries compute rates for various risks & these decide if the company will take the risk & insure you'
Underwriters
600
'Basalt is an igneous rock & rock salt is this type'
Sedimentary
800
'Meaning explosive or changeable, it comes from "volare", to fly'
Volatile
800
'Sinatra made his 1st record in July 1939 as a vocalist for this trumpeter's band'
Harry James
800
'In this game 2 players join hands & form an arch that falls after the "Take the key and lock her up" stanza'
London Bridge
800
'Basic types of life insurance are whole life, endowment & this'
Term Life
800
'William Smith was the 1st to date rocks using these found within them'
Fossils (that he found inside the rocks)
1000
'Whales belong to this order of mammals whose name comes from the Latin for whale, "cetus"'
Cetacean
1000
'Dying in this film, Sinatra warns Prew, "Watch out for Fatso, he'll try to crack you...."'
"From Here to Eternity"
1000
'The order of shooting in croquet follows the order of the color rings on this'
Pegs
1000
'Used in setting rates, the theory of this was developed by Blaise Pascal & Pierre de Fermat in the 1600s'
Theory of Probability
1000
'The stratosphere includes this layer of the atmosphere that absorbs ultraviolet light'
Ozone