Show:
FEMALE INVENTORS
BORN & DIED
BREAKFAST CEREALS
ANIMAL FARM
WEIRD WORDS
200
'In 1903 Mary Anderson created these after noticing streetcar drivers struggling to see in rainy conditions'
windshield wipers
200
'Be-bopped into the world Aug. 29, 1920; found the joy of sax & flew away March 12, 1955'
Charlie Parker
200
'The silly rabbit can't resist this cereal's fruity flavors, including Lemony Lemon & Grapity Purple'
Trix
200
'The L.A. Times says the Norwegian variety of this animal came to Los Angeles via rail, the black variety via ship'
a rat
200
'To hornswoggle someone is to do this to them'
cheat
400
'After a chemical spill at 3M, Patsy Sherman helped create this versatile fabric stain repellant'
Scotchgard
400
'Tough guy actor born Nov. 3, 1921; had no "Death Wish" but made his "Great Escape" Aug. 30, 2003'
Charles Bronson
400
'A man who spilled bran on a hot stove accidentally created the flakes of this "Breakfast of Champions"'
Wheaties
400
'This large fowl was originally domesticated in Mexico & taken to Spain around 1519'
a turkey
400
'A quocker-wodger is a wooden one of these children's toys with strings'
a puppet
600
'Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, is said by some to be the first programmer, as she used this number system'
binary
600
'New Yorker cartoonist, drew his first breath Jan. 7, 1912; left his ooky family Sept. 29, 1988'
(Charles) Addams
600
'This great! Kellogg's cereal was introduced in 1952'
Frosted Flakes
600
'The crested this is the biggest African rodent, & has a really good defense system, too'
the crested porcupine
600
'Dactylonomy is the advanced art of counting using these'
fingers
800
'All policemen can thank Stephanie Kwolek for her invention of this polymer fiber 5 times tougher than steel'
Kevlar
800
'Seismologist born April 26, 1900; shook the world with his Sept. 30, 1985 death'
(Charles) Richter
800
'This cereal was introduced by General Mills in 1937; maybe you'll get it on Route 66?'
Kix
800
'The spadefoot variety of this amphibian can lay up to 3,000 eggs in pools created by a summer rainfall'
a frog (a toad accepted)
800
'From the Greek for "belly speech", engastrimyth is another name for this type of stage performer'
a ventriloquist
1000
'Several of Beulah Henry's inventions dealt with this machine, like the protograph, which made 4 copies with no carbon paper'
a typewriter
1000
'Born in Lille, Nov. 22, 1890; said a general au revoir Nov. 9, 1970'
Charles de Gaulle
1000
'The mascot of Cocoa Puffs is Sonny, this type of bird'
a cuckoo
1000
'The dried dung of this animal, Bos grunniens, is often the only obtainable fuel in the treeless Tibetan plateaus'
a yak
1000
'Also a slang term for the head in Shakespeare's time, a costard is an old variety of this fruit'
an apple